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How a Singapore Gen-AI Health Company Built a 14-Person India Team in 6 Months

How a Singapore Gen-AI Health Company Built a 14-Person India Team in 6 Months
14
India hires
6
Months to a full team
300+
Global companies that trust Wisemonk
The challenge

A Global Platform Too Slow for a Fast-Scaling AI Team

A generative-AI health company scaling at startup pace had begun building its India team through a large global EOR, and the mismatch showed fast. Support answered slowly and from the wrong time zone, one monthly payroll cycle was mishandled and had to be corrected, and the platform's generic approach simply could not keep up with a team that needed to add people almost every week.

The company wanted a fourteen-person India team employed by a partner who specialised in India and could move at its speed, with payroll it never had to double-check.

It switched, and asked Wisemonk to carry the rest of the build.

The solution

An India Specialist That Kept Pace, Payroll and All

Wisemonk took over as Employer of Record, transitioned the existing team cleanly, and matched the company's hiring pace, reaching fourteen people within six months.

Every hire came onto a compliant contract, with provident fund, professional tax, income-tax deductions, gratuity, and health benefits from the first cycle, and payroll ran correctly every month with one accountable owner in India.

The company joined the 300+ global businesses that rely on Wisemonk for India, and stopped worrying about the basics.

The results

A Team That Could Finally Scale as Fast as the Company

The company built a compliant fourteen-person India team in six months, with payroll it no longer had to check and support that answered on India time.

The mishandled cycles and cross-timezone delays of the global platform were gone.

It is the switch fast-moving companies keep making: a specialist keeps pace in India where a generalist falls behind.

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