Two ways to build in India: run a fully managed pod, or own your entity from day one. We handle compliance, payroll, and IT.
Operational benchmarks we've maintained across our global clientele
The world's fastest-growing enterprises build strategic capability centers in India for engineering, AI, CX, and operations.
Hire top 1% engineering, AI, data, CX, and finance professionals in India's concentrated capability hubs.
A second-shift India team keeps your global work-streams moving after US and EU employees go home.
GCCs compound capability over years. Fortune 500s treat India centers as permanent infrastructure.
Wisemonk is your India operating partner, running a controlled execution layer with the process, security, and compliance your reviewers will ask about.
Your team, aligned to your systems, managers, and goals. We never sit between you and them.
Recruiting, employment, payroll, HR, workspace, and IT delivered as one execution layer your teams can audit.
Access controls, device policies, and IP protection, all backed by D&O cover and professional indemnity insurance.
We operate banking and approvals inside authority limits you set, at the oversight level you choose.
Three models, matched to how hands-on you want to be. Every one of them runs on the same operating layer underneath.
We handle hiring, infrastructure, payroll, compliance, and local leadership day to day. You own strategy, direction, and output.
What we run
Hiring · Payroll · Compliance · Local leadership
Typical scope
Engineering · CX · Finance · Back-office ops
Best for
Fast scale without operational drag
We incorporate, register, and bank your entity, then run compliance, payroll, people, and banking. You hold every share.
What we run
Incorporation · Compliance · Payroll · Banking
Typical scope
Local invoicing · India sales · Delivery hubs
Best for
A permanent India base you own
Use our recruiting, payroll, and compliance infrastructure inside your own entity, without adding new headcount or operational complexity.
What we run
Recruiting · Payroll · Compliance · IT/workspace
Typical scope
Any function inside your existing entity
Best for
Scaling without adding operational complexity
One India partner, accountable for all of it, from incorporation to daily operations.
Entity incorporated, registered, and banked in weeks.
We run compliance, payroll, people, and banking.
Take full control whenever you are ready.
You hold 100% of the company throughout.
Every moving part, from legal and finance to HR, banking, and equipment, coordinated by a single accountable team.
Not a spreadsheet-and-email service. A real tech product managing the full lifecycle, with headcount, filings, and approvals in one place.
Product interface shown with sample data.
One controlled execution layer beneath your team, delivered as a single accountable service rather than a stack of vendors.
The mandatory local seat, filled.
ROC, GST, TDS, and filings.
Run on our own platform.
Within the limits you set.
Hire your India team fast.
Provisioned and managed for you.
Coworking and partner office locations.
MSAs plus in-house legal counsel.
Where Wisemonk Entity sits against the two routes you are most likely comparing it to.
| EOR | Wisemonk Entity | DIY entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership | Wisemonk employs | 100% yours | 100% yours |
| Time to live | Days | Weeks | 6 to 12 months |
| Local invoicing & IP | Limited | Full, in your name | Full, in your name |
| Compliance burden | None on you | We run it | Yours to staff |
One team answerable for the entity, the people, and the risk posture around both.
One hundred percent, from day one.
End to end, on our platform.
Legal, recruiting, and transformation specialists included.
D&O cover, indemnity, defined authority limits.
Here's what our clients are running in India right now, with the engagement model that fits each one.
Product, platform, data, and applied AI teams running 24×7 alongside your core org. Deep technical talent, full managerial control, and velocity that matches your timezone setup.
High-volume, multilingual customer support with 24×7 coverage. Scale predictably and stay on-brand through integrated tooling and your own SOPs.
Centralize AP/AR, GL, payroll, FP&A, and analytics in India. Build a shared-services backbone without the overhead of a new entity.
HR business partners, recruiters, and people-ops specialists embedded in your function. Run global onboarding, employee relations, and recruiting cycles around the clock.
Founders, Leaders and HR heads of fast growing startups across US, Europe, SEA and Oceania trust our services to manage their India teams.
The Wisemonk team played a key role in helping us hire for specialized B2B SaaS marketing skills. We were able to build the team within four months, and hire experienced professionals from Tier 1/major B2B SaaS brands. This includes SEO, digital marketing, business development, product marketing, content marketing, and GTM roles. They are a great partner providing integrated services for EOR and recruitment/hiring and I’d recommend them to any B2B SaaS vendor.
We've been using WiseMonk to support our India team for the past six months, and the experience has been excellent. They've handled everything from payroll and statutory compliance to equipment procurement and benefits enrollment — all with a level of responsiveness and professionalism that makes managing a remote India team from Canada feel seamless. Nileena and the team are always quick to reply and proactive about flagging anything we need to know. We'd happily recommend WiseMonk to other companies looking to hire and manage talent in India.
Wisemonk is a key partner for EOM-Energy O&M Services, playing an essential role in supporting our operations. Their seamless payment solutions make transactions not only simple and fast but also reliable. The team’s responsiveness, professionalism, and proactive approach give us complete confidence in every interaction. We look forward to strengthening our collaboration, using Wisemonk both for Employer of Record services and for recruitment support, to help us expand our team in India in the short and medium term.
As the CEO of The Humble Bucks LLC, I had a great experience working with Wisemonk.io. They made our hiring process in India smooth, efficient, and cost-effective. We were assigned a dedicated recruiter who helped us find and hire three EOR employees at a very competitive price.
Beyond hiring, Wisemonk’s support team was extremely helpful in managing important operational logistics. They assisted us with coordinating meeting-related needs, including flight tickets, employee laptops, and other practical requirements, which saved us significant time and effort.
Overall, Wisemonk has been a reliable partner for The Humble Bucks LLC. Their combination of recruiting support, EOR services, and hands-on operational assistance made the entire experience seamless. I would recommend Wisemonk to any company looking to hire and manage employees in India with confidence.
Process was professional & very smooth. We've worked with Wisemonk to source developers in India and it's worked incredibly well for us. We are very pleased with the talent of the developers and the Wisemonk process was professional and very smooth. We highly recommend using Wisemonk for talent sourcing!
We came across Wisemonk and met with the CEO and staff to explain our situation, and were very impressed with their customer-focused approach to their business. Wisemonk onboarded all of my employees in one or two days. They paid my employees' salaries on the day after my payment cleared. Needless to say, my employees and I were very satisfied with their service then and remain so over a year later. We are an American company, so I was very happy to see that they have a US bank account where I can make ACH payments to minimize bank charges. All salary payments are timely. They worked directly with my employees to enroll them in the health care program and explain any coverage-related issues. The best part is that we get to work with a dedicated person assigned to our company. I would highly recommend Wisemonk and think of them as our Indian HR department.
I'm very Happy that I discovered Wisemonk. They have been a pure pleasure to work with, and their attention to detail is impressive. They helped us understand their pricing model, find top-qualified individuals, interview them, and then onboard them. I gave them criteria for the type of people we sought, and they delivered. The individuals they were able to find have been some of the best engineers I have ever worked with. I recommend Wisemonk to anyone who is in need of staffing assistance.
I highly recommend them. Wisemonk helped us tap into the vibrant and top-notch Indian talent market and hire our first couple of founding engineers in record time. We've been able to accelerate our roadmap and deliver terrific value to our customers thanks to Wisemonk's efforts. They are easy to work with and very transparent about the process. I highly recommend them to any company looking for talent located in India.
Red Hill Technology Solutions has run its India engineering team on Wisemonk for the past year and a half. They handle payroll and benefits end to end, so I can offer my employees good health insurance without having to master the idiosyncrasies of Indian benefits myself. Payroll cutoff reminders arrive every month before I need them, and off-cycle bonus runs have never been a problem. Even equipment purchasing, a real headache for a US company shipping to Indian addresses, is as simple as telling them what I need. Exchange rates are fair and the pricing is transparent.
Deepika Elumalai, our point of contact, ties it all together. Whatever comes up, she pulls in the right people and sees it through. For any US company building a team in India, Wisemonk is an easy recommendation.
A captive entity is your own Indian subsidiary, giving full legal control but taking 6 to 12 months to set up. An EOR is a third-party employer that hires on your behalf, which is fast and compliant but typically transactional.
Wisemonk Entity is the middle path: your own subsidiary, incorporated in your name and live in weeks rather than months, which we then operate for you. You get the local invoicing, IP position, and governance posture of a captive without staffing the back office to run it.
You do, 100%, from incorporation onward and at every stage after it. This is not a nominee arrangement, and it is not a build-operate-transfer deal where a partner holds the company and hands it over later. We hold the resident director seat and operate on your behalf within limits you set. We never hold your shares.
Yes. We handle incorporation, the registrations that follow, and the bank account, typically in weeks rather than the 6 to 12 months a subsidiary usually takes to stand up. We then fill the mandatory resident director seat and run ROC, GST, and TDS filings so the entity stays compliant from its first month.
Median launch time is 8 to 12 weeks from kickoff to first hires onboarded. Recruiting starts in week one, while legal, workspace, and IT setup run in parallel.
Yes. Your managers, your tooling, your goals. Wisemonk runs the operating model beneath the team, covering employment, payroll, HR, workspace, and IT, but never sits between you and your people.
Yes, and there is nothing to transfer because the entity is already yours. You graduate: we hand over the director seat, banking, and records for a one-time transition fee, not a penalty. Nothing is re-papered and nobody is re-hired. On a fully managed pod, we instead move the team into your entity once it is ready, with no break in service.
MDM-managed laptops, SSO with your IdP, least-privilege access, encrypted endpoints, and signed IP-assignment agreements. We align with your InfoSec team's policies and are audit-ready from day one, and we carry directors and officers cover plus professional indemnity insurance.
Fully managed pods are priced per employee with no hidden fees. Wisemonk Entity is a one-time setup fee plus a monthly management fee, made up of a base that scales with your chosen service level and a per-employee component. Graduation carries a one-time transition fee. Both models are quoted to your scope, and we share the detail in a term sheet after a scoping call.
We operate across all 28 states and 8 union territories in India, with full statutory compliance in each. Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, NCR (Gurugram and Noida), and Chennai are our primary hubs, with managed office space through coworking and partner locations. We can also support remote and hybrid setups anywhere in the country.
Our team is ready to assist you with anything you need.
Book a scoping call and we will map your setup, your timeline, and the service level that fits. Pod or your own entity, you leave knowing what is feasible and how fast you can go live.
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