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Your game runs globally. Your team payments shouldn’t be a side quest

You ship to players in 100 countries. Your art team is in Georgia, your QA in Manila, your engine devs are contractors across six time zones. Most platforms weren’t built for studios — they miss the jurisdictions, the payment flexibility, and the IP assignment your investors actually care about. Kleos handles the entire back office for distributed GameDev teams in 242 countries

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The part of running a studio nobody puts in the postmortem

“Our payout run takes two days. Every single month.” You have artists in Poland, QA contractors in Eastern Europe, and a tech lead in Argentina. Every month it’s the same ritual: check exchange rates, chase invoices, fight with the bank, pray nobody’s local account rejects the transfer. You’re a studio head, not a back-office operator.

“Our contractors work full-time for us. We’ve never thought about what that means legally.” Your senior animator has been on a “freelance” contract for 18 months. Works 40 hours a week. Uses your tools. Follows your schedule. In Poland, Germany, and the UK, that looks a lot like employment — regardless of what the contract says.

“We’re about to close a round. Then someone asked about contractor IP.” Every piece of concept art, every line of engine code, every audio asset — who actually owns it? If your contractors never signed a proper IP assignment agreement, the answer might not be you. Investors notice. Acquirers notice.

“The platforms that work globally don’t understand GameDev.” You tried the big EOR players. They’re built for SaaS companies with full-time employees in stable jurisdictions. They don’t know what to do with a team of 50 contractors across CIS, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe. You need infrastructure that actually fits how studios work.

Two ways to pay a distributed GameDev team

Without Kleos

Download invoices from 12 different contractors in 8 formats

Check each one against the contract scope

Initiate separate transfers — wire here, USDT there, something else somewhere else

Explain to your investors or auditors why there’s no clean audit trail

Repeat in 30 days

With

Today, 2pm

Review your payout list in the dashboard

Today, 2:15pm

Approve in one click. Contracts, IP assignment, invoices — already handled.

Tomorrow, 10am

Each contractor receives payment in their preferred method

Tomorrow, 11am

Your investors get a clean audit trail. Your team gets paid without drama.

Get your Tuesdays back

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From distributed studio team to compliant operations in 3 steps

Step 1

Upload your team

Add your contractors to the Kleos dashboard. We generate compliant service agreements with built-in IP assignment and confidentiality clauses, tailored per jurisdiction.

Step 2

We handle the contracts

Kleos signs agreements with each contractor through local entities. Covers scope, IP transfer, and confidentiality — everything your legal team would want, built in by default.

Step 3

Everyone gets paid how they want

Set up your payout list. Each contractor chooses how they receive payment in their personal dashboard. Flat fee: €50 per contractor. Zero fees from contractors themselves.

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The math, for a team of 50

50 contractors, average payout $4,000/month

IP assignment in every contract

Service agreements ready for due diligence

Coverage in underserved markets

Monthly cost (50 people)

Stablecoin-friendly funding

Verifiable payment reports

Security & compliance

Traditional EOR

IP assignment in every contract

Generic clauses

Service agreements ready for due diligence

Yes

Coverage in underserved markets

Stopped supporting

Monthly cost (50 people)

$300–600/employee

Stablecoin-friendly funding

Verifiable payment reports

Full

Security & compliance

Varies

%-fee payroll services

IP assignment in every contract

Per-task manual

Service agreements ready for due diligence

Limited

Coverage in underserved markets

Limited, unreliable

Monthly cost (50 people)

~$6,000 (3% of $200K)

Stablecoin-friendly funding

Yes

Verifiable payment reports

Partial

Security & compliance

DIY (P2P + wallet)

IP assignment in every contract

None

Service agreements ready for due diligence

Coverage in underserved markets

Works until banks block you

Monthly cost (50 people)

Unpredictable — gas fees, failed txns, blocked cards

Stablecoin-friendly funding

Yes (but manual)

Verifiable payment reports

None

Security & compliance

Kleos

IP assignment in every contract

Built in by default

Service agreements ready for due diligence

Yes

Coverage in underserved markets

242 countries

Monthly cost (50 people)

€50 × 50 = €2,500

Stablecoin-friendly funding

Yes

Verifiable payment reports

Full

Security & compliance

ISO 27001 + GDPR

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Hiring globally when every asset created needs to belong to your studio

Studios working with global contractors face a structural IP risk that doesn’t show up until it matters most: fundraising, acquisition, or investor due diligence. When contractors haven’t signed a proper IP assignment agreement, the work they produced may not legally belong to your studio.

The risk compounds over time. The more contractors, the more jurisdictions, the more assets created — the bigger the gap becomes. By the time a buyer’s lawyers trace the ownership of your game engine code or proprietary art pipeline, it’s too late to fix cleanly.

This is what Kleos prevents — by making IP transfer structural, built into every contract from day one.

That's what

does.

“We had 40 contractors across Poland, Serbia, and Southeast Asia. Every payout cycle was a two-day project. With Kleos it’s one dashboard, one approval, done.”

Sarah C.

Head of operations

“Our investors flagged that we had no clean IP paper trail for our contractors. Kleos’s contract structure and built-in assignment agreements fixed that overnight — before the round closed.”

Charles R.

CFO

“I used to dread payout week. Now it’s Tuesday morning and it’s over before lunch. The contracts, the invoices, the IP docs — it just happens.”

Natalie D.

Studio director

Contractors

10,000+

Countries active

242

Flat per contractor

€50

Questions GameDev studios actually ask

Fair questions, honest answers

Do you cover contractors in UK, Germany, and other key GameDev markets?

Yes — Kleos covers 242 countries, including the UK, Germany and other major game-dev hubs, with locally compliant contracts.

What does “IP assignment built in” actually mean — do contractors need to sign separately?

IP assignment is part of the standard contract every contractor signs — no separate paperwork. Whatever your team builds is assigned to you from day one.

We have both long-term contractors and project-based freelancers. Can Kleos handle both?

Yes. Ongoing contractors and one-off project freelancers run through the same dashboard and the same single invoice.

What happens if a contractor works almost full-time for us — is there a misclassification risk?

For near-full-time workers you can switch to the Employer of Record structure, which gives proper employment status and removes misclassification risk while keeping one point of contact.

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Your game runs globally. Your team payments shouldn’t be a side quest

The part of running a studio nobody puts in the postmortem

Two ways to pay a distributed GameDev team

Without Kleos

With

From distributed studio team to compliant operations in 3 steps

The math, for a team of 50

Hiring globally when every asset created needs to belong to your studio

Questions GameDev studios actually ask

Your team ships the game. They shouldn’t be stuck waiting on paperwork