Case Study: Draft.dev speeds up global payments and builds team trust with Plane

How Draft.dev sped up payments and built trust with their team using Plane

Draft.dev is a fully distributed content marketing agency founded by Karl Hughes in 2020. As the team grew to 300+ remote workers across 59 countries, Draft.dev struggled with a manual, error-prone payroll process using PayPal and bank transfers. Payments were slow, expensive, and difficult to manage globally, especially as the company needed to pay contractors in many different countries.

Plane helped Draft.dev streamline global payments and onboarding with a user-friendly payroll platform, automated payments, active-worker pricing, and support for contractors in 240+ countries. With Plane, payroll time dropped from up to four hours a week to under an hour, and Draft.dev also gained easier approvals, better recordkeeping, smoother onboarding, and stronger trust with team members. Karl also used Plane’s EOR options as the company expanded internationally and later onboarded an acquired business to Plane, saving its team hours each month on payroll.

Draft.dev

Karl Hughes

Founder