Case Study: Zerve achieves audit-ready global HR and compliance at scale with Deel

How Zerve AI builds an enterprise-grade developer platform with Deel

Zerve AI, an Irish startup building an agentic development environment for data practitioners, needed a way to scale a highly specialized global team from day one. As the company grew, it had to replace an ad hoc HR setup with a more mature, compliant system that could support global hiring, centralized employee data, time-off management, and security training verification. Deel’s EOR and HR products were part of the solution.

Deel helped Zerve AI centralize people operations, hire senior developers across North America and Europe, and prepare for an ISO 27001 audit with integrated security-training tracking. The company entered the audit with confidence and now manages about 90% of its workforce on Deel across 5+ countries, while also improving financial transparency, enabling equity grants, and supporting real-time recognition and time-off management in Slack.

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Martha Ivanovas

Head of Operations