A global payroll platform needs global entities, and one difficult experience made speed non-negotiable
Shor is building infrastructure for the future of work: a platform where any company can hire, pay, and manage global employees instantly and affordably. But to deliver on that promise, Shor first had to become an employer of record in the countries it serves, which meant forming legal entities and staying compliant with each market’s tax and labor obligations.
For a two-person YC-backed founding team moving at startup speed, this created a real tension. Every new market Shor wanted to serve meant another entity to form and another set of tax and compliance obligations to manage, and they planned to add markets fast. Entity formation in global markets is notoriously slow, expensive, and fragmented. Traditional international formation firms charge anywhere from $6,000 to over $20,000 per entity in year one, and that’s before accounting for the ongoing compliance overhead of managing tax registrations, filings, and local reporting requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
Shor learned this firsthand when they attempted to form their first entity through a traditional provider. The process was slow, opaque, and frustrating, which is the exact opposite of what a fast-moving startup building a better payroll product needed.
When it came time to form entities in India and Canada, two of their first EOR corridors, Shor didn’t go back to a traditional provider. They came to Commenda.
Entity formation and tax compliance, all in one place
What made the difference was having everything in one platform. With a traditional approach, Shor would have needed separate providers for entity formation and tax compliance in each market, with no single view into how the pieces connected or where things stood at any given moment.
Commenda handled both. For India and Canada, Commenda managed the full entity formation process alongside tax compliance setup, giving Shor a single place to track everything and a single team accountable for results.
This was exactly what a company building a global payroll platform needed. Rather than getting bogged down in administrative overhead across multiple vendors, Shor’s founders could stay focused on building their product and onboarding their first customers.
A typical entity formation provider wouldn’t have covered Shor’s tax compliance needs, and a typical tax platform wouldn’t have handled entity formation. Commenda did both, in two countries, in weeks.
Operational in two countries in weeks, not months
Operational in India in 4 weeks. What typically takes traditional international service firms three to six months (entity registration, tax setup, and compliance readiness), Commenda delivered in four weeks.
Operational in Canada in 1 week. Canada moved even faster. With Commenda managing the process end to end, Shor was fully operational in one week.
Saved over $15,000 vs. traditional providers. Traditional international formation firms like Healy Consultants publish rates of $5,200+ for India incorporation alone in year one, before tax registration and ongoing compliance. Add Canada, and a fragmented approach would have cost Shor $15,000 or more in year-one fees. Commenda consolidated everything into one platform at a fraction of the cost.
One platform for everything. Rather than juggling separate law firms, local agents, and compliance vendors across two markets, Shor managed entity formation and tax compliance for both countries through Commenda, giving their team full visibility and the freedom to focus on what mattered most: launching their product.
A repeatable playbook for entering every new market
For Shor, India and Canada were just the beginning. As an EOR platform, every new corridor they open (every country where they want to hire and pay employees on behalf of customers) requires a local entity and ongoing tax and compliance coverage. Their growth depends on entering new markets quickly and cleanly, again and again.
That’s why Commenda has become Shor’s go-to global expansion partner. Instead of re-evaluating providers and starting from scratch in each country, Shor now has a repeatable playbook: when they’re ready to launch in a new market, they turn to Commenda to stand up the entity and handle compliance in weeks, not months.
“Every new market we enter, we go to Commenda first. They’ve turned what used to be our biggest bottleneck into something we barely have to think about,” says Daivik Goel, CEO and Co-Founder of Shor.
As Shor continues scaling its global footprint corridor by corridor, Commenda is the partner making that expansion fast, compliant, and cost-effective, turning international growth from a months-long obstacle into a competitive advantage.
