HireHare, Built Solo, End-to-End

EOR providers publish EOR guides. Entity setup firms publish entity setup guides. Payroll vendors publish payroll comparisons. None of it is wrong exactly, but all of it is written with a preferred conclusion already decided. A founder trying to figure out whether they actually need an EOR for a two-person hire in Portugal, or whether a contractor arrangement works just as well, has nowhere to go for an answer that isn't commercially motivated. That gap bothered me enough to build something about it.

HireHare is an AI-powered tool built for clarity, specifically for people navigating the cross-border hiring space who want straight answers on what they actually need, not what the market is trying to sell them. It covers EOR, payroll, tax, entity setup, and anything adjacent to the global employment domain. The responses are tailored to the user's specific situation, and the RAG layer I built for it was given a strict prompt, source only from official government resources and credible institutional information. No private vendor content, no provider documentation, no commercially produced comparisons. That constraint is the whole point, the tool's value is that it has no financial interest in which direction it points you.

The landing experience reflects the two questions that actually dominate this space. Two buttons on the landing window, one for the cost to hire in a given country, one to calculate tax in a given country. Those two entry points map directly to the two biggest decision categories in cross-border hiring, EOR (cost of employment) and entity setup (tax obligations). Most tools in this space lead with product categories. HireHare leads with what people are actually trying to figure out.

I built in a lead capture layer, but not to sell anything. For specific or complex queries, I can follow up directly with more tailored guidance. The lead capture exists because I think the most undervalued thing in marketing is credibility, and credibility compounds through follow-through. Someone who gets a genuinely neutral, useful answer and then receives a thoughtful follow-up remembers that. That's the kind of brand trust that converts over a much longer arc than any ad campaign.

I built the entire product myself, backend, frontend, UX, design, prompt engineering, and the RAG architecture. The design decisions were driven by what people actually want information about, not by what currently exists in the market in the form of employment guides or vendor resources. Those resources exist because they serve the vendor. HireHare was built to serve the person asking the question.