Shor: The fastest, most affordable payroll for global teams

The fastest, most affordable payroll for global teams

Shor is a new Employer-of-Record built from the ground up with AI agents and stablecoins. We enable remote teams to hire and pay global employees at a fraction of the cost. The process is fast, simple, and fully compliant. Today, global payroll is broken. Payments take days, cost 5–10% in fees, and force companies to navigate complex banking, tax, and labor regulations. Platforms like Deel and Rippling solved this for large enterprises but remain too expensive and cumbersome for the millions of startups and growing remote teams scaling globally. Shor fixes this by combining autonomous AI agents with stablecoin-based settlement. Our agents handle contracts, worker classification, compliance, and payroll automatically in a simple, messaging-first experience. Payments can settle in seconds rather than weeks at a fraction of the cost of legacy providers. We are making global payroll fast, affordable, and accessible for the millions of companies left out by legacy platforms.

Active Founders

Daivik Goel

Co-Founder

Building Shor, the fastest, most affordable way for global workforces to be hired and paid In the past, I’ve built global financial infrastructure from scratch in weeks, shipped production APIs overnight, and started Founders Brew, which has brought together 2,000+ founders across SF, Toronto, and NYC. I’ve also worked on product and engineering at Tesla, Cisco Meraki, and several early-stage startups. Computer Engineering Grad, University of Waterloo

Daivik Goel

Co-Founder

Building Shor, the fastest, most affordable way for global workforces to be hired and paid In the past, I’ve built global financial infrastructure from scratch in weeks, shipped production APIs overnight, and started Founders Brew, which has brought together 2,000+ founders across SF, Toronto, and NYC. I’ve also worked on product and engineering at Tesla, Cisco Meraki, and several early-stage startups. Computer Engineering Grad, University of Waterloo

Avi Konduru

Co-founder

Currently building Shor (YC S25), leveraging AI agents and stablecoins to create the world’s fastest, most affordable global EOR. Previously co-founder & CTO of the world’s first rent-to-own exchange, where we connected aspiring homeowners with sellers via rent-to-own contracts and facilitated over $2M in home sales. Earlier, I worked as an ML Engineer at Kensho Technologies and a Quant at Wells Fargo. Graduate of UT Austin, B.S. in Computer Science.

Avi Konduru

Co-founder

Currently building Shor (YC S25), leveraging AI agents and stablecoins to create the world’s fastest, most affordable global EOR. Previously co-founder & CTO of the world’s first rent-to-own exchange, where we connected aspiring homeowners with sellers via rent-to-own contracts and facilitated over $2M in home sales. Earlier, I worked as an ML Engineer at Kensho Technologies and a Quant at Wells Fargo. Graduate of UT Austin, B.S. in Computer Science.

Company Launches

Shor – The Fastest, Simplest, Most Affordable Payroll for Global Teams

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TL;DR

Hire and pay international contractors for $20/month with near‑instant settlement.

Full‑time employees (EOR) are coming soon at $99/month.

Interested? Learn more and request beta access at tryshor.com

Don’t want to read? Well here is internationally renowned creator, Max Zavidow, in a bubble bath to explain what we do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF1m1H0arYY

The Problem

Hiring globally is still:

Expensive: Typically charged at $50/month per contractor, $599‑$699 per employee (plus hidden fees and 12‑month lock‑ins)
Slow: Onboarding can take days or weeks, especially for employees
Clunky: Portal logins, support tickets, and back‑and‑forth for basic changes
Delayed payouts: Contractors wait days (sometimes weeks) for bank transfers

This results in many teams manually managing the process or skipping hiring global talent altogether.

Our Solution

Shor is the fastest, simplest, and most affordable way to hire globally, without outdated portals, 12 month lock-ins, or slow bank transfers.

From one Slack or WhatsApp thread, you can:

Hire contractors or employees anywhere in the world with no local entity required.
Generate country-specific contracts instantly
Onboard new hires in minutes while we collect documents, verify compliance, and get them ready to work in the same conversation.
Run payroll in seconds with payouts landing in a matter of minutes rather than days
Stay compliant automatically while we handle local labor laws, taxes, and filings in the background
Scale without friction adding or removing team members with no 12-month lock-in and no hidden fees.

Contractors are $20/month flat.

Employees (EOR) are $99/month, rolling out corridor-by-corridor starting with India, the Philippines, and Nigeria.

The Team

We are Daivik and Avi.

We previously built cross‑border payout systems with UnionBank, Unit, Column, Alloy, AiPrise (YC S22), and Persona. Now we are using AI agents and stablecoins to make global payroll effortless.

Our Ask

We would love to meet:

Businesses hiring contractors worldwide
Global Neobanks interested in partnering with us
Startups frustrated with the pricing or speed of traditional EORs
Builders working on AI‑first legal, financial, or support infrastructure

Please feel free to send us an email at contact@tryshor.com or book a time to chat here!

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