en.Wedoany.com Reported - Remote, an Amsterdam-based payroll service provider founded seven years ago, announced that its annual recurring revenue has surpassed $300 million and it has achieved positive cash flow. The company stated that after fully adopting artificial intelligence across all levels of the organization, revenue per employee increased by 50%.
Remote CEO Job van der Voort told TechCrunch that he runs five different instances of Claude simultaneously on his laptop's second screen, building various tasks, including a Slack agent for summarizing discussions and experiments with agentic AI. More broadly, Remote generated more revenue without increasing headcount. AI adoption spans all functional departments, not just the CEO's office or the engineering department. Employees launch applications in Remote Labs, an internal marketplace built on the company's own technology, with capabilities similar to the AI features the company offers to its customers.
Remote also established the Remote Build service, where forward-deployed engineers work directly with customers and prospects to help create custom workflows within their organizations. Van der Voort believes Remote is ahead of most companies in this regard. The company's core payroll business grew over 300% year-over-year, a growth van der Voort primarily attributes to AI adoption, though this data has not been independently verified. Remote currently serves thousands of companies needing to handle global employment compliance, with these figures also based on the company's own estimates.
Driven by AI, Remote has reduced its hiring plans but has not conducted layoffs. The company is actively evaluating whether to increase headcount or invest more time in equipping existing employees with AI tools and increasing AI spending. Although AI costs continue to rise, the expenditure remains manageable due to the company's overall efficiency gains. Van der Voort stated that AI makes it easier and more enjoyable to eliminate repetitive and bureaucratic tasks in the payroll payment process.
Remote's business strategy targets all types of enterprises, not just those with distributed workforces; most of its customers employ office-based staff, and the company remains committed to providing payroll services for all types of businesses. Unlike competitors pivoting to an integrated HR platform model, Remote believes the AI wave validates its decision to focus on a single, difficult problem.
Remote recently launched the Remote MCP interface, based on the Model Context Protocol, allowing AI agents and external platforms to directly access payroll and compliance data. This interface enables platforms like BambooHR and Workday to use Remote as an underlying engine. Van der Voort stated that using ChatGPT or Claude allows full control over Remote, and users may no longer even need to interact with the Remote platform itself—he believes this is the future. His own personal AI agent, OpenClaw (named Jim), has already achieved secure interaction as an early explorer, capable of accessing necessary data without performing destructive operations.
Following the internal adoption of AI-driven coding at Remote, engineer contributions have grown by over 60% in the past year, and in the most recent month, over 85% of code was written by AI. Van der Voort said that AI has added a completely new and interesting dimension to his own role.
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