Remote Crosses $300M ARR and 300%+ Payroll Growth — Launches Remote MCP to Make Global Employment Infrastructure AI-Agent Ready
Remote (San Francisco; the global payroll and employment infrastructure platform; co-founder and CEO Job van der Voort; 100+ owned legal entities worldwide; billions in payroll processed annually; trusted by tens of thousands of companies including Anthropic, KFC, and Datadog), has announced that its payroll business has grown more than 300% year over year, with the company surpassing $300 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and becoming cash-flow positive. The milestone marks a defining moment in Remote's ambition to be the trusted payroll and employment infrastructure for businesses operating across borders — and coincides with the launch of two new platform capabilities: Remote MCP and Remote Build. The world's leading HR platforms, including Workday, BambooHR, and Personio, have chosen Remote to power their own global employment offerings.
"At our core, we have always been in the business of trust: making sure people get paid correctly, compliantly, and with dignity, wherever they are in the world. That trust comes with getting the hard things right, consistently, at scale. That is exactly what we have spent years doing: building the infrastructure, the compliance depth, and the owned entities that make it possible to get this right, in every country, every time."
— Job van der Voort, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, RemoteRemote MCP — Making Global Payroll Data Accessible to Any AI Agent
The launch of Remote MCP is the most strategically significant announcement alongside the growth milestone. Remote MCP gives any AI agent a live, secure connection to Remote's payroll, contracts, compliance data, and org structure — with no API keys, no exports, and no custom integrations needed. The significance of this is substantial: it means AI agents built on any platform can now query and act on global employment data — headcount, payroll status, compliance flags, contractor agreements, organisational structure — in real time, without custom integration work. For enterprises using agentic AI to automate HR and finance workflows, Remote MCP transforms payroll and employment data from a siloed back-office dataset into a live, programmable layer that AI agents can access, analyse, and act on. Remote Build provides customised support for companies from creating architecture to executing implementation — whether companies connect through an existing HR suite, work on top of Remote's APIs, or log in directly.
"Remote is the intelligent infrastructure for employing and paying people everywhere. Open and programmable, Remote's infrastructure supports any tool, agent, or workflow a company chooses to build on top of it — making global employment data as accessible and actionable as any other enterprise data layer."
— Remote, Platform Vision Statement100+ Owned Legal Entities, Workday and BambooHR Integration, and Global Compliance at Scale
Remote's 300%+ payroll growth is built on a structural competitive advantage that is difficult to replicate: 100+ owned legal entities across the world and regulated payments institutions across key markets — meaning Remote operates as the legal employer in each country directly, rather than through third-party intermediaries. This entity-owned model delivers faster support, better compliance control, and greater reliability than aggregator models. The platform processes billions in payroll annually across its Global Payroll, Employer of Record, and Contractor Management solutions. The integration decisions by Workday, BambooHR, and Personio — the world's leading HR platforms — to choose Remote to power their own global employment offerings reflect institutional confidence in Remote's infrastructure quality and compliance depth. Remote's cash-flow positive status, achieved alongside 300%+ payroll growth and $300M+ ARR, signals that Remote has crossed the threshold from high-growth startup to durable, scalable global employment infrastructure — the foundational layer on which enterprises, HR platforms, and AI agents can confidently build.
Remote crosses $300M ARR with 300%+ payroll growth. San Francisco; co-founder and CEO Job van der Voort; global payroll and employment infrastructure platform; 100+ owned legal entities worldwide; billions in payroll processed annually. Announced 14 May 2026. Milestones: payroll business grew 300%+ year over year; $300M+ ARR surpassed; cash-flow positive achieved. Trusted by tens of thousands of companies including Anthropic, KFC, and Datadog. Workday, BambooHR, and Personio have chosen Remote to power their own global employment offerings. remote.com.
Remote MCP — AI-agent ready global employment infrastructure. Remote MCP gives any AI agent a live, secure connection to Remote's payroll, contracts, compliance data, and org structure — no API keys, no exports, no custom integrations. Transforms global employment data from a siloed back-office dataset into a live, programmable layer that AI agents can access, analyse, and act on in real time. Remote Build: customised support for companies from architecture creation to implementation execution. Whether connecting through an existing HR suite, Remote's APIs, or direct login — Remote delivers compliant, accurate global employment and payroll every time.
The 100+ owned entity advantage. Remote operates as the legal employer in each country directly through 100+ owned legal entities and regulated payments institutions across key markets — not through third-party intermediaries. This entity-owned model delivers: faster support response; better compliance control; greater reliability vs aggregator models; billions in payroll processed annually with in-house compliance depth. Platform scope: Global Payroll + Employer of Record + PEO + Contractor Management. In-house payroll operations in 70+ countries. 100% entity-owned model improving speed of support, security, and overall reliability.
The Workday, BambooHR, and Personio signal. When Workday, BambooHR, and Personio — collectively the world's leading HR platforms — choose Remote to power their own global employment offerings, they are making an infrastructure procurement decision based on compliance confidence, entity depth, and API reliability. These are not marketing partnerships — they are revenue-critical integrations where failure would directly affect their own customers. The fact that three of the most trusted names in enterprise HR have selected Remote as their global employment backend is the strongest possible third-party validation of Remote's infrastructure quality — more credible than any analyst report or customer testimonial.
Strategic significance — $300M ARR, cash-flow positive, and the AI infrastructure layer. Remote's simultaneous achievement of $300M ARR, cash-flow positivity, and 300%+ payroll growth signals a structural inflection point: the global employment infrastructure market is consolidating around platforms with owned entity depth, compliance track records, and programmable APIs — and Remote has established a leading position in that market. The launch of Remote MCP extends this position into the agentic AI era: by making global payroll and employment data accessible to any AI agent with no integration overhead, Remote is positioning itself not just as the payroll provider that processes global payments but as the global employment data layer that enterprise AI workflows depend on. Job van der Voort's framing — "making sure people get paid correctly, compliantly, and with dignity" — captures why trust, not technology, is the ultimate differentiator in global payroll infrastructure.