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Your next best hire lives 5,000 miles away

The best person for the job isn’t always in your timezone. Kleos makes it simple to hire, pay, and stay compliant with contractors anywhere in the world — so you can build the team you actually want
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Flat per contractor
€50
Teams switched
600+
Contractor onboarding
60 seconds
ISO/IEC 27001 & GDPR compliant
Locations covered
242
Contractor fee
Zero
From signup to first payment
1 day
Paid worldwide
$80M+

Hiring locally is a ceiling, not a strategy

These aren’t hypothetical problems. They’re why great roles stay unfilled
The talent you need doesn’t live nearby — Your job post gets 200 applications. Three are qualified. Two want 30% more than your budget. The best engineer for the job is in Lisbon, Lagos, or Lahore — but you’ve never hired internationally before.
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“We’d love to hire you, but…” — You found the perfect contractor in another country. Now what? Contracts, tax compliance, currency conversion, payment rails — suddenly you need a legal team, an accountant, and three new tools just to pay one person.
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The spreadsheet phase — Five contractors, four countries, three currencies, two invoicing formats, one very tired ops person. Every month. It doesn’t scale, and it definitely doesn’t spark joy.
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“We need your tax residency certificate” — Your contractor just got an invoice approved. But your finance team won’t process it without a tax residency certificate — and getting one costs your contractor $500 and three weeks of bureaucracy. So the payment sits. And sits. And your best people start looking elsewhere.
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What if geography was a feature, not a bug?

The best teams in the world aren’t built within commuting distance. They’re built by finding the right person — wherever they are — and removing everything that makes it hard to work with them. Kleos handles the contracts, compliance, and payments so you can focus on the only thing that matters: is this person great at what they do?
That's what
does.
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Hire anywhere. Pay everyone. Stay compliant

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Step 1
Find your person
Hire the best contractor for the role — regardless of where they live. You focus on skills and fit. We handle everything else.
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Step 2
We set it up
Kleos signs the contract, runs KYC, and handles local compliance. Your contractor is onboarded and ready to go — typically under 24 hours.
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Step 3
Pay with one click
Fund your balance, schedule payouts, and pay your entire global team from one dashboard. Compliant per jurisdiction, full audit trail, predictable cost.
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Built for teams that hire on talent, not on timezone

Pay contractors virtually anywhere. No entity setup required.
242 locations
50 contractors, 12 countries, 1 invoice to your company. Your finance team will thank you.
One invoice
Contracts, KYC, tax documentation — handled. No reclassification risk.
Compliant by default
Flat €50 per contractor, every cycle. No percentage charges, no hidden fees. Cost doesn't scale with salary.
Predictable cost
From “you’re hired” to “you’re paid” in 60 seconds. Not two months.
60 seconds
Your contractors choose how they get paid — bank transfer, card, local rails, or USDT.
Flexible withdrawals

Let’s talk about what this really means

Senior engineers in Berlin bill €120/hour. Equally talented engineers in Buenos Aires, Nairobi, or Kraków bill €35–60/hour — not because they’re less skilled, but because cost of living is different. This isn’t exploitation. It’s access. Your contractor earns a strong local salary. You get world-class talent at a rate that lets you hire three people instead of one. Everyone wins — if the infrastructure is there to make it work.
That's what
does.

Three ways to hire globally. Two of them are painful

Choose wisely
Setup time
Contracts
Compliance
Cost per contractor
Payouts
Flexibility
Security & compliance
DIY (manual payouts)
Setup time
Weeks of legal research
Contracts
You draft them (and pray)
Compliance
Your problem
Cost per contractor
??? + legal fees
Payouts
Wire transfers + manual tracking
Flexibility
Maximum (and maximum risk)
Security & compliance
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Traditional EOR
Setup time
Days to weeks
Contracts
Provided, but rigid
Compliance
Covered, at a premium
Cost per contractor
$300–600/mo
Payouts
Through their platform
Flexibility
Limited to their entities
Security & compliance
Varies
Kleos
Setup time
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60 seconds
Contracts
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Handled — tailored per country
Compliance
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Built in
Cost per contractor
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€50/contractor/mo
Payouts
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One dashboard, multiple currencies
Flexibility
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242 locations, contractor chooses withdrawal method
Security & compliance
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ISO 27001 + GDPR
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Your team is out there. Let’s go find them

Book a 15-minute demo and see how Kleos handles global teams management — contracts, compliance, and payments — so you can hire the best people, wherever they are.