Gegidze
4.4 (2)The Talent-First Gateway to the Caucasus
Gegidze occupies a distinctive position in the Georgian Employer of Record landscape because it approaches compliance and hiring as two halves of the same problem. Founded to connect Western European and North American companies with Georgian and wider Caucasus talent, the firm pairs a full EOR and payroll offering with an embedded recruitment practice covering software engineering, product design, marketing and finance roles. For companies that have identified Georgia as a cost-effective nearshore delivery hub but have no local network, that combination shortens the path from decision to a productive team member considerably.
The provider's Georgia expertise is grounded in the practical realities of the local system rather than generic templates. Gegidze works fluently with Georgia's flat 20 percent personal income tax, the mandatory 2 percent employer and 2 percent employee contributions to the state pension fund, and the Revenue Service filing calendar, including monthly declarations and year-end reconciliation. It also advises on the individual entrepreneur and small business status routes that many Georgian professionals prefer, and is candid about when contractor structures create misclassification exposure versus when a genuine employment relationship under the Labour Code of Georgia is the safer path. Onboarding documentation is prepared in Georgian and English, which matters for enforceability locally and for audit readiness at headquarters.
The target market skews toward startups, scale-ups and digital agencies hiring their first one to twenty people in the region, along with established firms building distributed engineering pods. Buyers should expect a hands-on, consultative service model with named contacts rather than a self-service platform with global breadth. Organisations needing coverage across dozens of countries in a single dashboard will find Gegidze narrower by design, but few competitors match its depth within Georgia itself.
Key Features:
- Combined EOR and technical recruitment under one contract
- Georgian and English bilingual employment agreements and onboarding packs
- Payroll administration aligned to Revenue Service monthly filing deadlines
- Guidance on individual entrepreneur and small business tax status structures
- Local benefits sourcing including private health insurance for Georgian staff
- Support for relocation, residence permits and remote worker visa routes
Why I Picked Gegidze:
I included Gegidze because it solves the problem most buyers actually have in Georgia, which is finding the person as well as employing them compliantly. Its command of local specifics, from the 2 percent pension contributions to the pitfalls of individual entrepreneur arrangements, is well above the level I see from global platforms treating Georgia as a long-tail market. For a first hire in Tbilisi or Batumi, this is the kind of partner I would shortlist first.