We built the tool we wished existed when we hired our first US employee

After 13 years in HR and talent acquisition - and helping numerous companies build teams across Germany and the US - I kept running into the same problem.

European companies expanding to California or New York had no idea what they were getting into. They would hire a great candidate, only to discover that San Francisco has different minimum wage rules than Los Angeles. That New York City requires anti-harassment training that the state of New York does not. That a missing pay stub disclosure can cost $250 per employee per day.

I watched companies spend weeks waiting for employment lawyers to draft a single contract - at $400-$800 per hour. I saw HR teams in Munich trying to navigate 25 different city ordinances on top of California state law, using nothing but Google and hope.

So we built HireStates. An AI-powered platform that knows every employment rule in every California and New York jurisdiction - from the state baseline down to individual city ordinances. It generates compliant contracts and handbooks in minutes, not weeks. It monitors law changes automatically so your documents never go stale.

We are not replacing lawyers. We are giving your lawyer a finished first draft instead of a blank page. We are giving your HR team confidence instead of confusion. And we are saving your company thousands of dollars and weeks of time on every single hire.