I’m launching EOR Select. Here’s what it is and why it exists.
Three platforms, three different jobs. This one has zero editorial input.
I run three EOR platforms now.
Employ Borderless is the advisory play. You come with your situation - team size, target countries, budget - and we tell you which provider to use. Human judgment, real recommendations, free to buyers. If you want someone to just tell you the answer, that’s still the place to go.
EOR Overview is the directory. Browse providers, see rankings, read comparisons. More self-serve. Some editorial input from our editorial team.
Both are useful. Both involve people making calls. That’s the point of them.
But some people don’t want a recommendation. They want the underlying data. They want to see the scores, the methodology, the raw numbers, and reach their own conclusion.
That’s a different job. So I built a different tool for it.
That’s EOR Select.
What it actually is
EOR Select is an algorithm. Not a team of reviewers. Not me making judgment calls in a spreadsheet. An actual scoring methodology that runs every provider through the same axis, with the same weights, every time.
The Select Score is a 0-100 number. Every provider gets one. The ranking is earned, not sold.
Three data layers power it.
Country hiring data. We’re scraping government sources, OECD databases, and other authoritative datasets to pull the actual hiring facts for each country. Mandatory notice periods, social contribution rates, statutory leave, termination rules. The real numbers, not what a provider’s sales team tells you.
Provider ratings. The algorithm scores each EOR on the same criteria. Same axis, every provider, no exceptions. If a provider scores low, it scores low. Our own affiliated brands are flagged and excluded from the Select Pick - full disclosure, always.
Social sentiment. We pull real user discussions from Reddit, Facebook groups, and other sources. Unfiltered. Including the negative stuff. The complaints people post at 11pm when an onboarding goes wrong. That data is in the score.
Why build this alongside Employ Borderless?
They solve different problems. (also I am dealing with too much data right now, needed a place to visualize it cleanly :) )
Employ Borderless is for when you want a recommendation. A real person who has vetted these providers tells you which one fits your specific situation. That’s still the fastest path to a decision.
EOR Select is for when you want to verify. When you want to see the numbers before you talk to anyone. When you want to understand why a provider ranks where it does, and whether you agree with the methodology.
Some people go to EOR Select first, see the data, then come to Employ Borderless for the actual recommendation. That works. That’s a reasonable path.
The tools are different. The job they do is different.
The methodology is public
Everything is documented at eorselect.com/methodology. You can read exactly how the Select Score is calculated, what each dimension measures, and what weights are applied.
If you think a dimension is weighted wrong, tell me. The methodology page has a feedback link. I update it when the argument holds up.
A score you can verify is more useful than a score you’re asked to trust.
Where it is right now
Launched June 1, 2026. Still early. The database is being built actively: new country data every week, new providers added as the scraping pipeline improves.
The scores will change as the data improves. That’s not a problem - a score that never changes has stopped tracking reality.
The short version
Want a personalized recommendation? Go to Employ Borderless.
Want the data behind the recommendation? Go to eorselect.com.
I built both. They work better together than separately.