StartHR helps small US tech companies turn a role, project, or team gap into the right engineering setup — with sourcing, technical review, delivery support, and contracts, payments, and paperwork supported where needed.
Overseas engineering talent can save serious money — if someone carries the setup behind it. Scroll to see how much of the work stays on your side on each path.
Doing it yourself. Sourcing, screening, scoping, contracts, cross-border payments, paperwork, coordination. The savings are real — but so is the workload, and all of it lands on the founder or CTO.
Role. Start with one hire. StartHR sources senior talent beyond the US market, screens technical depth and English, and hands you a short list. Compensation is set by the engineer’s market — not by a US bidding war. You interview and decide.
Task. Hand over a scoped task. StartHR assembles the right people and manages delivery around milestones. You review results — not vendors, resumes, or invoices.
Ongoing team. The full setup: your remote team runs through one operating route — contracts, payments, and paperwork structured upfront instead of improvised later. Hiring solved, admin handled, costs predictable. You set direction and make decisions — and get your calendar back. Start small; if it works, we stay your long-term engineering partner.
| Workstream | Role | Task | Ongoing team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery | Shared | Shared | Shared |
| Sourcing | StartHR | StartHR | StartHR |
| Technical review | StartHR | StartHR | StartHR |
| Scope / role design | Shared | StartHR | Shared |
| Delivery management | You | StartHR | Shared |
| Contracts | Optional | Case-by-case | StartHR-supported |
| Payments | Optional | Case-by-case | StartHR-supported |
| Paperwork | Optional | Case-by-case | StartHR-supported |
| Ongoing coordination | You | Light | StartHR-supported |
Direction and final decisions. Everything else can move to StartHR — that’s the point of choosing a path instead of buying a package.
You work directly with the people handling the search, scope, and setup.
We focus on fit, technical judgment, and context before sending candidates or building a team.
When the engagement goes deeper, contracts, payments, paperwork, and the operating route are structured before work starts.
Recruiting, delivery, and setup usually sit with different vendors. StartHR gives small teams one practical starting point — a role, a task, or an ongoing team.
| Recruiting agency | Dev shop | EOR · payroll platform | StartHR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helps define the problem | Partial | Partial | — | ✓ |
| Finds technical talent | ✓ | Partial | — | ✓ |
| Reviews technical fit | Partial | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Can scope a delivery task | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Supports contracts, payments, and paperwork | — | Partial | ✓ | ✓ |
| Can grow from one role into an ongoing team | Partial | Partial | — | ✓ |
To be fair: if you already have the candidate and only need payroll, an EOR platform is enough. If you have a crisp spec and only need hands, a dev shop works. We’re built for the case where the problem comes first.
When a role, task, or team becomes more than a simple handoff, StartHR helps structure the operating route around contracts, payments, paperwork, and delivery responsibilities.
We help define who signs, what is documented, and what needs to be agreed before work starts.
The payment path is discussed upfront, so cross-border admin does not become a surprise after the work begins.
For deeper engagements, StartHR can run the operating route through an Astana Hub–based structure, with AIFC / English-law-based frameworks where applicable — wherever the engineers themselves are based.
This describes how StartHR structures its own operations. It is not legal or tax advice, and the exact contracting and payment route is confirmed with each client before work starts.
Six steps, whichever path you start with. If we’re not the right fit, we say so at step one.
We learn what you are building, what is blocked, and what kind of technical help may be needed.
We decide together whether this starts as a Role, a Task, or an Ongoing team — and define exactly which positions and skills are needed.
For a role, we source candidates. For a task, we scope the work. For an ongoing team, we design the setup — and in every path we find the people to match.
Technical skills, track record, communication, and English are tested by humans. Prepared people go to your shortlist — or straight into the task or team.
Responsibilities, contracts, payments, paperwork, and operating route are agreed before work starts.
Begin with one role or one scoped task. Grow into an ongoing team only after the model proves useful.
Four checks before anything reaches you — and the people who run them.
We look for fit before volume — not resume piles.
People, scope, and delivery fit are reviewed by humans before they reach the client.
We check whether the person or team can work clearly with a US-side client.
The role, task, or team setup is reviewed against what the client is actually building.
Asked by real prospects, answered without hedging.
Tell us what you’re trying to build, fix, or hire for. We’ll help decide whether it should start as a role, a scoped task, an ongoing team, or a setup question around someone you already found — and we’ll say plainly if we’re not the right fit.
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