Hire and pay your international team with confidence  |  Start free →

Your worldwide team, backed by Kestrel Anchor

Hiring across borders takes more than an EOR. Anchor pairs owned entities in 118 markets with in-country legal teams, so you can grow anywhere without handing your people a worse experience.

Kestrel | Anchor
The dependable standard for cross-border employment

Everything you need, in a single platform

Building a distributed workforce doesn't end when the contract is signed. Anchor carries every part of international employment at the same standard — so nobody on your team feels like an afterthought.

Cover+

Sit behind a specialist legal bench, plain-language guidance on local statute, liability cover written into every contract, and IP assignment handled at signature.

Learn more

High misclassification risk

This contract reads as employment in the local jurisdiction.

Moderate misclassification risk

A few clauses need rewording before this one is signed.

Low misclassification risk

The engagement looks correctly classified and the exposure here is minimal.

Helping companies build five-star experiences for teams in every timezone

“Even without our own entity in Lisbon, Kestrel owns the whole experience — they take the problem, sit between us and local counsel, and it comes back solved. That has genuinely changed our quarter.”
Portrait of Nadia Fontaine — Thanh Xuan Nguyen Ly on Pexels
Nadia Fontaine Head of People at Brightloom Brightloom
“We trust them to get it right because they help us get it right. From a finance perspective, I can close a month knowing a statute I've never heard of was already handled.”
Portrait of Marcus Ilyin — Korede Adenola on Pexels
Marcus Ilyin Finance Director at Havenmark Havenmark

Experience the Anchor difference

You've got real ambitions for your global team — and we hold our infrastructure to a matching standard. Worth a conversation?

Other platforms deliver
Anchor delivers
  • Limited country coverage
  • Owned coverage across 118 countries
  • Basic liability cover, capped and caveated
  • 12× liability cover per employee (to $1m USD)
  • Full ownership of everything your team creates
  • Generic or stale guidance on local employment law
  • A 40-person in-house legal bench
  • Compliance guidance written into the product
  • Local statute checked at every stage of employment
  • Slow support and drawn-out resolution
  • Manual work at every handover
  • Tickets resolved inside 48 hours
  • Automation that takes onboarding from three weeks to six days
  • Free self-serve HR tooling
  • Bare-minimum team member experience
  • Payouts in 96 currencies
  • Localised benefits in every market we cover
  • Access to Kestrel Academy courses

Anchor is reaching further every quarter

118+

118+ countries where you can engage talent today

37

37 countries entered by a single customer

$164 million+

$163,847,220 paid through the platform last year

Book a Demo

Anchor: a dependable standard for global employment

When it comes to employing people abroad, Anchor covers the ground others skip — so you can build, pay, and keep an international team without drama.

Two colleagues reviewing work on a laptop — rawpixel on Openverse, CC0
  • Build a genuinely global company

    Reach talent in 118 countries and get market-specific playbooks plus legal backup, so compliance holds every time — not just the first time.

  • Manage a fast-growing team

    Self-serve tooling, country-specific guidance, and a named support pod let you move quickly on hiring, payroll, and benefits without adding headcount.

  • Keep the people you hire

    Give international staff a localised, human experience at every milestone — and take a standing pile of work off your People team's plate.

Anchor performance by the numbers

Fast, compliant onboarding

Complete a hire in as little as six days.

A legal bench that answers

Specific legal questions returned in about three days.

Support that stays with you

Resolution for you and your team inside 48 hours.

Book a Demo

Work out hiring costs anywhere in the world, in a few clicks

Employment cost calculator

Powered by Kestrel
Portugal
EUR 3,400
Monthly
Gross salary Net salary
Calculate

Receive expertise and guidance, end to end

With Kestrel you're not just able to hire globally — you're set up to do it better than the companies you're competing with for the same people.

A person working at a desk beside a tall studio window — rawpixel on Openverse, CC0