Hello ProductHunt! We're excited to launch AO State Compliance for GA access. Big thanks to @maccaw for hunting us. If you run a distributed team in the US (so much more common post-pandemic!), you've probably run into the maze of state-by-state regulation and compliance. 😵‍💫 Every time you hire someone in a new state, you have to register in somewhere between 1 and 7 agencies. 😖 Sometimes in a certain order. And sometimes you can do it right away, other times you have to wait. 🤑 And if you do it wrong or enter a typo, you'll get angry letters by snail mail from a government agency, demanding hundreds or thousands of dollars. It's crazy that there’s no API into the state of California or Illinois. Until now. Over the last 2+ years, we’ve worked with 100+ elite companies (like On Deck, Maven, Commsor, Airplane), modeled 2,000+ fields across 150+ agencies, completed hundreds of registrations in all 50 states, and seen 4,000+ notices. And now, AO State Compliance lets you... 📆 TRACK your states in one place: account details, files / notices, issues, and risk. Includes Registered Agent services, annual report, and franchise tax filings. 📝 FILE in new states: we’ve turned a 5-10 hour filing process into a 5-minute form. 🪄 RESOLVE regulatory notices: our platform ingests and resolves snail mail notices, claims, or filing requests, like magic. Customers have told us this problem is the "bane of their existence", but once they know that we can solve this for them, our favorite recent quote is "Seriously, I have never been so excited about a product/service in my career :)". Join them! Sign up, set up your account, and submit your first registration in <10 mins at AbstractOps. In the coming weeks, we’ll be adding the ability to integrate your payroll, receive proactive notifications and alerts, manage and assign issues, and more in State Compliance. And beyond? State Compliance is just the beginning. Integrate your broader operational stack (payroll, contracts, cap table and more) to unlock powerful visibility and automation, and better end-to-end employee experiences. Do away with "human APIs" so that you can stay lean while growing. And yes, there'll be some AI delight sprinkled in ;). Besides the PH deal, we’re delighted to partner with some of the best companies in the space: if you’re affiliated with On Deck, Craft Ventures, Hustle Fund, or a customer of Mercury, Pulley, or Puzzle, get 5% off AbstractOps for the first year. Please consult their perks page for more details, or email us at sales@abstractops.com! We're excited to give you back your time, so that you can focus on what matters: your product and customers.

amped about this @haridigresses what does your payroll or peo typically handle for you and what do you need to do on your own or with this service from abstractops?

Been a fan of AbstractOps State Registration Guides. The team knows what they're doing. Congrats on the launch, @haridigresses! Onwards and upwards! 🚀

I am excited to see how this product will continue to evolve and help businesses scale and achieve their goals.🤩 Best of luck for a successful launch and to many more opportunities!! 🎉 👏🏻

This is such a huge pain point and it’s not only going to save companies time and energy in being compliant but will provide huge peace of mind. Congrats on zeroing in on such an impactful problem, particularly for companies that are scaling up.

This is such an important tool - each state has different requirements and this tool saves you from figuring it out over and over again. Especially states like Washington, this will save you tons of time working with them!

This is incredibly useful. Remote work is here but most people are just paying attention to the upside of things. Having to register in 28 different states is definitely a downside that most aren’t aware of till it’s too late and then have no idea what to do with it.

Absolutely a great product! I love the interface!

Great work. Looks good.

I hope your launch is a huge success and leads to many more exciting opportunities for you and your product. Best of luck with everything!

This is a huge problem area for remote startups even just hiring their first couple people. Looks great.

I started a company to build products, not do ops. Awesome service.

An extremely super helpful tool for managing remote employees & contractors, and compliance requirements are straightforward. Keep up the excellent work!

This is magical. We are a remote team and there is nothing for frustrating than finding an amazing person you want to hire, and then have to spend hours and days figuring out how to do it. And then taxes at the end of the year. This is one of those known pains and glad someone is finally solving! Literally dealing with the headache now. 30 people and 15 states.

Great to see this launched. Congrats Hari + team!

Looks super well executed -- excited to give this a peak!

This is awesome! Solving a huge pain point, particularly for remote companies. Keep up the great work 🚀

Awesome to see AO go live, Hari and team are some of the best folks I've worked with. Congrats!

AbstractOps and @haridigresses know this space better than anyone. State registration is one of those unspoken annoyances that slow down every startup. Speed, efficiency and reduced mental stress are what lead to success. Handing this work to AbstractOps is a smart call for anyone. Highly recommend it! Full disclosure: I am a former co-founder of AbstractOps but now run a startup, levy, providing back-office services to startups. We are not obliged to recommend AbstractOps to our clients but do. It's a better product for a better price than anything else out there (including just doing it yourself...the worst option!).

This is awesome. There's nobody I'd trust more to make sure I get things right with compliance than @haridigresses