Remote expands payroll platform in Australia for AI

Remote has expanded access to its payroll and employment platform in Australia as it shifts toward what it describes as an AI-enabled global infrastructure model.

Its payroll business grew by more than 300% year on year, reached USD $300 million in annual recurring revenue and became cash-flow positive. The platform is now being made more broadly available to partners, customers, developers and AI agents, with new products designed to connect payroll, contracts, compliance data and organisational structures.

Australia is central to that push, with local employers facing regulatory change, rising compliance demands and shifting workforce expectations. Businesses in the market are rethinking how they hire and manage staff across borders, including contractors, offshore employees and remote workers based in different states and countries.

Platform expansion

Among the additions is Remote MCP, which gives AI agents a direct connection to payroll, contracts, compliance data and organisational information. Remote has also introduced Remote Build, a service that supports companies with architecture and implementation.

The broader aim is to let businesses use the platform through existing HR software, via Remote's application programming interfaces or directly through its own interface. The model is intended to support employment and payroll administration across multiple countries.

Job van der Voort, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Remote, said the company's direction builds on its existing role in payroll and compliance.

"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," said van der Voort, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Remote. "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. Opening that up to the world is the next step, and we are just getting started."

Australian focus

Remote's APAC business is positioning Australia as a key market as companies in the region expand cross-border hiring. The trend is being driven by demand for specialised talent and by the growing complexity of legal and compliance requirements tied to international employment.

Nick Martin, the company's APAC Go-To-Market lead, pointed to the role of cross-border work in the region.

"Over the past five years, Remote has solidified its position as the trusted payroll and employment infrastructure for businesses operating across borders. This is especially important in the APAC region, where we see significant cross-border collaboration with contractors, offshore employees, and employees working remotely from different states and countries around the region," said Martin.

Tens of thousands of businesses use Remote's products, including global payroll, employer of record and contractor management services. A number of human resources software providers also rely on its systems for their own international employment offerings.

The company named Anthropic, KFC and Datadog among customers using its products. It also cited Workday, BambooHR and Personio as platforms that have integrated its services into their own offerings.

Remote says it has more than 100 owned legal entities worldwide, operates regulated payment institutions in key markets and processes billions of dollars in payroll each year. It is using that footprint to appeal to businesses that need to hire and pay workers in multiple jurisdictions while meeting local employment and tax requirements.

Partner ecosystem

The latest move also aims to deepen Remote's role within the software ecosystem used by employers and HR teams. By opening its infrastructure to external developers and partners, it is seeking to place its systems beneath a wider range of workforce and finance tools.

Brian Crofts, Chief Product Officer at BambooHR, said the partnership addresses a common challenge for employers using HR software while managing staff in multiple countries.

"We deeply value our partnership with Remote so our customers do not need to choose between an HR experience they love and the ability to hire and pay people anywhere," said Crofts. "Remote's global employment infrastructure is what makes that possible inside BambooHR, and opening it up to the broader ecosystem is a significant step forward for how businesses manage global teams."

Remote argues that rising demand for international hiring has made payroll, compliance and employment administration a more strategic issue for larger organisations. As businesses look overseas for talent, the systems that support contracts, pay and legal obligations are becoming a more central part of workforce planning.

Its expanded platform is intended to serve companies whether they access it through an HR suite, build on top of its tools or use it directly, as demand for cross-border employment systems grows in Australia and across the wider APAC region.