Deel and its peers exist because employing someone in another country is legally complicated. If that is your problem, that is what you should buy.
- ›What Deel is genuinely for
- ›Where the boundary sits
- ›The configuration that works
- ›What to check
What it is genuinely for
Employer-of-record employment, contractor compliance, and cross-border payments. These are specialist legal and financial services, not software features. Replacing them with a general platform is not a trade you should make.
Where the boundary sits
Deel knows employment status and payment. It does not know what those people are working on, whether the project they are on is profitable, how their hiring pipeline looked, or whether next quarter's plan is staffable.
For a distributed company, that gap is usually the operational one: contractors and employees across several countries, and no single view of what the company is actually doing.
The configuration that works
Keep the employer of record. Put the operating system around it: one employee record, time off, onboarding, performance, hiring, project delivery and the finance that connects them.
Brainis People OS covers that side, on the same data layer as Work, Revenue, Hiring and Finance. Every module on every plan from $29 a month, with no per-employee charge — which matters when a large share of your team is contractors who need light access.
The honest gap: no employer-of-record service, no cross-border payroll execution, no country-by-country compliance guarantees. Those stay with your provider.
What to check
- ›Which system is authoritative for the employee record. Decide once and sync one direction, or you will maintain two directories. See building a single source of truth.
- ›Contractor versus employee status is a legal classification. Keep it where the legal responsibility sits.
- ›Data residency, if you employ in jurisdictions with rules about where personal data lives.
Tip: For remote teams the operational gap is usually visibility, not employment. See AI for remote teams for what closes it without surveillance.
FAQ
Can Brainis replace an employer of record?
No, and it should not try. That is a legal service with liability attached.
Does it handle contractors?
As people and as work: records, assignments, time, and invoices. The contracting relationship and its compliance stay with your provider.
What about many part-time or contract users?
No per-seat pricing, so a large contractor population does not multiply the bill.
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All 26 operating modules on every plan, from $29 a month. No per-seat pricing — you pay for AI capacity, not headcount.
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