Introducing Shor – The Fastest, Simplest, Most Affordable Payroll for Global Teams
Manage and pay global, distributed teams without high fees or outdated UI
I am currently in the YC Summer 2025 batch and just launched my product Shor! For this edition of the newsletter, I thought I would share a little bit more about it!
3 weeks till Demo Day!
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.
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Shor is the fastest, simplest, and most affordable way to hire globally, without outdated portals, 12 month lock-ins, or slow bank transfers.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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Thanks for reading,
Daivik Goel