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Write for Versatile.

Our blog is read by US and UK founders, People Ops and finance leaders hiring full-time employees in India. If you have done the work first-hand, we want your writing.

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Your byline sits next to work read by teams like these.

What we publish.

Versatile is an India-native Employer of Record, and every article we run serves someone making a real India hiring decision: employing without an entity, running compliant payroll, navigating PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS, structuring contracts and leave, moving teams between employers, or weighing an EOR against incorporation.

First-hand specifics beat summaries of other articles every time. If your draft could have been assembled from the first page of search results, it is not for us.

The strongest pitches come from

  • A CA who has answered a PF notice and can walk through the response line by line
  • A People Ops lead who ran an India payroll migration and kept the receipts
  • A founder who built a 20-person Bengaluru team and has the payslips to prove it

Topics we take.

EOR operations

Onboarding, transfers between employers, exits and final settlements — how the mechanics actually run.

Statutory compliance

PF, ESIC, professional tax, TDS and Shops and Establishments, written from the trenches.

Compensation in India

CTC structuring, flexible benefits, gratuity, and market benchmarks by city.

Contracts and leave

Employment contracts, leave policy, notice periods and the state-level variations that trip people up.

Risk done properly

Contractor misclassification and permanent establishment exposure, and how companies actually handle both.

Building India teams

Hiring loops, culture and communication, retention and the real economics of attrition.

The editorial bar.

We reject far more than we accept. That is deliberate — the same standard applies to our own writing.

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Original work only

Written for us, never published elsewhere, and not rewritten from existing posts.

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First-hand or named sources

Every statutory figure cites the current rule or notification. Experience beats aggregation.

03

No paid links, ever

No link exchanges, no sponsored insertions. Pitches offering payment for links are declined without reply.

04

No AI filler

We edit closely and fact-check statutory claims before anything ships under your name.

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A real, verifiable author

Typically 1,500 to 2,500 words, with a bio, credentials and a profile we can check.

Pitch to published.

01

Pitch

Two paragraphs to sagar@versatile.club: what the article argues, and why you are the right person to write it.

02

Write and edit

We reply within five business days. If accepted, you write and we edit together until it clears our bar.

03

Byline

You publish under a full author byline with your credentials and links to your profile.

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Replies within five business days.

Case studies.

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Tell us where you are on the decision.

A role you want to hire, a team you want moved, or just the two routes to compare. A named person replies in 4 to 6 hours.

A named person replies in 4 to 6 hours, not an autoresponder.

We use these details to respond to your enquiry.

A named person replies in 4 to 6 hours, not an autoresponder. We use these details to respond to your enquiry.

What the first call covers

30 minutes

A cost comparison for your headcount, on your numbers, both routes.

  • A written cost breakdown
  • Entity documents before the call
  • PF, ESI, TDS, termination law
  • No follow-up sequence
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