How Wisemonk Helped an Australian Marketplace Company Build a 6-Person India Team in Just 3 Months

A Marketplace Roadmap That Needed Builders, Fast

A digital marketplace lives or dies by the pace of its product. For this Australian medical-marketplace company, the roadmap was ready and the demand was real, but the engineering and product talent to ship it was not available locally at the speed the business needed.

India offered a deep pool of exactly the product and engineering skills the platform required. Hiring there, however, meant either engaging contractors with no real commitment or taking on the long, expensive task of setting up an Indian entity before a single builder could start.

Neither option fit. The company wanted a committed, properly employed squad working on its platform within weeks, not a subsidiary to stand up over the better part of a year.

What it needed was a way to put skilled people to work on the roadmap quickly and compliantly, without becoming an expert in Indian employment law along the way.

A Product and Engineering Squad, Live in Three Months

Wisemonk stepped in as the company's Employer of Record in India and built the squad around the roadmap, not the paperwork.

Within three months, six product and engineering professionals were hired onto fully compliant local contracts, each with statutory benefits, correct tax handling, and Provident Fund contributions managed from the first payroll cycle.

Salaries were benchmarked against the local market, so the company competed for strong builders with confident offers rather than guesswork.

Offer letters, onboarding, monthly payroll, and ongoing HR ran through a single point of contact, and the squad was shipping without the company registering an entity in India.

The founders chose the people and set the priorities, while Wisemonk carried everything behind the employment relationship.

A Committed Build Team, Not a Contractor Stopgap

In three months the company went from roadmap to a working six-person India squad, employed properly and invested in the platform rather than juggling short-term contracts.

With Wisemonk owning employment, payroll, and statutory compliance, the leadership team kept its attention on product and customers.

The company gained the engineering and product capacity to move faster, without the fixed cost or the compliance exposure of a foreign subsidiary.

As the marketplace grows, the same model lets the team expand one compliant hire at a time.