Whether or not you already operate in Africa, your company already spans several countries, several functions, sometimes several entities. Kernel brings the management of your existing teams and the creation of new ones into a single platform, across all 54 countries of the continent, with real economies of scale.
"Several countries, several functions, one platform and one contact. You consolidate, we carry local compliance."
Depending on whether you are already in Africa or not, and whether you want to run existing teams or build new ones, Kernel mobilises the right services. You consolidate control, we carry local compliance across all 54 African countries.
You have subsidiaries or teams spread across several African countries, sometimes with different tools and providers. Kernel unifies HRIS, payroll and multi-country compliance into one platform, with consolidated reporting.
You are opening a function (tech, finance, sales, support) in a neighbouring country or a new role. Kernel sources the profiles and structures the hiring, in your existing entities or via EOR for the countries you do not yet cover.
You are addressing new markets and need sales reps, country managers or local teams. Kernel hires for you via EOR or COR, finds the profiles and activates your offices when volume justifies it.
Tech nearshoring, multilingual customer support, operational finance, design: Kernel builds your African competence centre, sources the talents, contracts them via EOR and equips them to your IT standards.
You have subsidiaries or teams spread across several African countries, sometimes with different tools and providers. Kernel unifies HRIS, payroll and multi-country compliance into one platform, with consolidated reporting.
You are opening a function (tech, finance, sales, support) in a neighbouring country or a new role. Kernel sources the profiles and structures the hiring, in your existing entities or via EOR for the countries you do not yet cover.
You are addressing new markets and need sales reps, country managers or local teams. Kernel hires for you via EOR or COR, finds the profiles and activates your offices when volume justifies it.
Tech nearshoring, multilingual customer support, operational finance, design: Kernel builds your African competence centre, sources the talents, contracts them via EOR and equips them to your IT standards.
You recognise your situation, or you combine several scenarios at once? That is precisely the case for mid-market companies. Talk to a Kernel expert: we will scope your project in one call.
Talk to an expertA mid-market company sits at a tipping point: large enough to suffer multi-country complexity, still too agile to weigh itself down with a dedicated HR structure per country. Kernel concentrates three decisive benefits at this scale.
Instead of stacking local providers, disparate tools and heterogeneous contracts, you pilot everything from a single platform. Your HR and finance teams regain a common reading across all countries.
By grouping the management of your existing teams and the creation of new ones with a single partner, you cut structural costs, repeated legal fees and the internal coordination burden, across all countries.
Tech, finance, sales, support, operations: you build or run teams across every function, every sector, in a targeted country or a multi-country hub. Kernel adapts to your organisation, not the other way around.
At a mid-market scale, fragmentation is expensive: provider sprawl, heterogeneous contracts, scattered reporting, compliance hard to monitor. Here is what Kernel consolidates, concretely.
You do not remove local complexity, you carry it in a single place. The scale gain shows from the second entity onwards.
Whether you run existing teams or build new ones, Kernel covers the full scope a mid-market company needs to operate across the continent.
A framed path that respects your existing entities and teams. You keep control, Kernel executes local compliance, country by country.
You talk to a Kernel expert to map your entities, existing teams, hiring goals and compliance constraints.
Kernel proposes a unification plan (HRIS, payroll, compliance) and a team-building plan, prioritised by country and function, with no disruption to your employees.
Progressive takeover of existing entities, local contracts for new hires, validated by your counsel if you wish.
Payroll triggered, employee workspaces opened, consolidated multi-country reporting available. You keep full visibility.
Depending on your scenario, Kernel mobilises the right services in a single platform, with consolidated billing. You activate what you need, country by country, function by function.
HRIS and payroll for your existing African entities: continuously monitored compliance, employee workspace, consolidated multi-country reporting.
See the solutionLocal contracting, multi-currency payroll, social and tax filings across all 54 countries. No subsidiary required.
See the solutionActive sourcing, oral qualification, documented shortlist. Tech, finance, sales, support, operations, across all countries.
See the solutionOffices and physical presence when volume justifies it, relaying EOR contracts on your priority markets.
See the solutionYou pay as you use: per employee, per month, with billing consolidated per entity. Full pricing details are gathered on our Pricing page.
Yes, this is the most common case at your scale. Kernel unifies the management of your existing entities (HRIS, payroll, compliance) and structures your new hires in parallel, local or offshore hub, in a single platform.
A Kernel expert maps your entities and needs, then proposes a unification and growth plan within days, with no commitment.
