According to van der Voort, the recipe behind these efficiency gains is AI adoption well beyond the CEO’s office or engineering department. Employees across all functions have been launching apps in Remote Labs, an internal marketplace built on the company’s own technology, and which shares similarities with the AI capabilities that the company is now opening up for its clients.

Similarly to what Remote has been doing for its own processes, it is now helping clients create custom workflows. “We know that we’re ahead of most companies in that sense,” says van der Voort. “So we set up Remote Build, which is essentially what investors like to call ‘forward-deployed engineers’ — essentially people who work [directly] with our customers and prospects to do similar things inside of their organizations.”

Van der Voort claims these gains could compound further. He says Remote’s core payroll business has grown more than 300% year over year — growth he attributes largely to AI adoption, though the company has not provided independent verification of that figure. Remote also says it now serves tens of thousands of companies navigating global employment compliance, a number that, like its ARR milestone, comes from the company itself.

While Remote’s bread and butter is precisely this complexity, its staff also found relief in removing some of the repetitive and bureaucratic work required to pay workers in almost every country. “Obviously we’ve been automating a lot of that; that’s what we do,” says van der Voort. “But with AI that became easier, and arguably more fun than ever before.”