Their partnership, accuracy, and flexibility meet our needs … They have consistently demonstrated great flexibility in understanding and promptly meeting our demands.
Contractor of Record
Pay LATAM contractors
without carrying the risk
The contract is ours
Combine contracts the professional and you contract Combine. The classification question stops being yours to answer.
One invoice, any country
Twelve contractors across six countries arrive as a single monthly invoice, in your currency, with the local tax already handled.
Local rules, locally applied
Each country tests independence differently. We contract to the test that actually applies where the person lives.
Days, not an entity
No local company, no bank account, no six-month setup. A contractor can be onboarded and paid inside a week.
Proof at scale
Contractor relationships that hold up.
- professionals placed
- 800+
- professionals placed
- avg tenure
- 2.5y
- avg tenure
- LATAM countries
- 20
- LATAM countries
- clients hire again
- 96%
- clients hire again
The Combine model
Paying a LATAM contractor straight from your US entity leaves the misclassification risk sitting with you.
Why Contractor of Record exists
Classification assessed per role
Before anyone signs, we test the engagement against the rules of the country the person lives in and tell you where it lands. If the role reads as employment, we say so and point you at EOR instead of taking the fee.
Contracts on local terms
Written in the local language and jurisdiction, with IP assignment and confidentiality that a local court will actually read.
Payment and tax handled
Invoicing, withholding and cross-border payment, on schedule, so nobody chases anybody.
A path when the work changes
Engagements drift. When a contractor starts behaving like an employee, we flag it and convert to EOR before it becomes a liability rather than after.
What we believe
You should be deciding
with the numbers in front of you
A straight answer on risk
Per role and per country: contractor, or employee. Written down, with the reasoning, so it survives a conversation with your counsel.
Rate bands before you commit
What the role actually pays in Brazil versus Mexico versus Colombia, so the budget is set from market data instead of a guess.
Total cost, not the headline rate
Fees, local taxes and payment costs laid out next to the EOR equivalent, so you can see which model is cheaper at your volume.
Reviewed as it runs
We re-check classification on renewal instead of filing it once and forgetting it.
Team functions
Roles we contract through COR
- Software Engineers
- Staff Engineers
- Product Managers
- UX Designers
- DevOps Engineers
- Data Engineers
- QA Engineers
- Engineering Managers
- Sales Development
- Customer Success
COR or EOR
Which one your situation calls for
COR fits project work
Defined scope, the person sets their own hours and methods, works with other clients. Cheaper and faster to start.
EOR fits a real job
Fixed hours, your management, your tools, indefinite term. That is employment everywhere in LATAM, whatever the contract says.
Cost is not the deciding factor
COR is usually cheaper, but only where it genuinely applies. Choosing it for a role that is really a job is how the bill arrives later.
Switching is normal
Plenty of relationships start as COR and become EOR. We move people between the two without restarting the relationship.
Testimonials
Teams that hired with us
They got to the core of the business, which helped us make a faster and more assertive decision. Impressive!
Combine truly has a process. They have KPI’s and they bring ideas to the table to show what they are doing. That was also something interesting to see for sure.
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Next step
Pick a slot.We tell you which model applies.
45-min discovery. You leave with a classification read on each role, rate bands by country, and the total cost of COR next to EOR.
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