How can you be sure all the necessary IP rights have actually been transferred to you? How do you automate payments to employees across different countries while still being able to customize tax compensation for them? And which jurisdiction is the right one for payroll?
We're sharing three client case studies where we answered exactly these questions with our product.
Solant AI: From Manual Transfers to Fully Automated Global Payroll
Challenge: Manual multi-currency payroll operations
When Solant was a small team, paying people manually was manageable. Part of the team was paid in USDT, part in AED, and everything was handled by hand. But as the company scaled to 10 people, that approach broke down. Every payroll run meant manually calculating currency equivalents across different rates and wallets — a process that was slow, error-prone, and ultimately led to real payment mistakes.
Pain points:
- Heavy manual operational load with every payment cycle
- Constant currency conversion calculations across USDT and AED
- Payment errors caused by manual processes
- High transfer fees eating into the budget
- No way to cover or plan for the team's tax burden
How Selfwork helped: We automated the entire payroll process, removing the need for manual calculations and transfers. Just as importantly, the platform's custom integration allowed Solant to structure payments in a way that compensates employees for their tax burden — something the team couldn't solve on its own.
The result:
- Zero manual currency calculations
- A custom tax compensation structure built specifically for the team
- Reduced transfer costs and eliminated payment errors
Qwertips: Legalizing a Global Team Without Losing IP
Challenge: Legal hiring and IP protection for a high-tech startup
As a high-tech startup, Qwertips leadership had to answer a set of hard questions before scaling their team internationally: Who exactly is doing the work? What guarantees do we have on output? And critically — how do we make sure every line of intellectual property created actually belongs to the company?
Pain points:
- Need to legalize compensation for the team
- Full, verifiable transfer of IP rights from every contributor
- Different team members needed different things — some needed visa support, others needed a formal, provable source of income
How Selfwork helped: we built a reliable chain of IP rights transfer, ensuring that every contributor's work is legally and fully assigned to Qwertips. On top of that, Selfwork provides proof of income to contractors, so they can present documents when applying for visas, opening bank cards, and taking out mortgages
The result:
- A dependable, airtight IP transfer chain for every worker
- Compliant, "on the books" compensation for the whole team
- Documents that can be used when applying for visas, opening bank cards, and taking out mortgages
Nobel Design: Payroll Through a Trusted Jurisdiction
Challenge: Investor-grade financial reporting from a reliable jurisdiction
For Nobel Design, the choice of payroll partner was strategic. As a new company reporting to investors, the CFO needed compensation to run fully "on the books" and through a provider based in a genuinely reliable jurisdiction, not a low-credibility offshore setup. Working with a Swiss legal entity, rather than a Cyprus-based one, was a key requirement for building trust with US investors and stakeholders.
Pain points:
- Reporting standards demanded by investors in a newly formed company
- Need for a payroll partner in a credible, reputable jurisdiction — not an offshore-style setup
- Clean, audit-ready financial documentation
- US-specific compliance requirements, including W-8 forms
How Selfwork helped: Selfwork's Swiss legal entity gave Nobel Design the credibility and transparency their investors expected. Payroll runs through clean, well-documented reporting, with full support for US compliance requirements like W-8 forms — giving the CFO confidence in every reporting cycle.
The result:
- Investor-ready, transparent financial reporting
- Payroll backed by a trusted Swiss legal entity
- Compliance for US-based operations
