What problem does it solve? International hiring at scaleups often falls between Legal, Finance, and HR, with no single owner tracking permanent establishment risk, EOR-versus-entity trade-offs, or country-specific compliance. This Skill structures the entire expansion planning process so every stakeholder gets the right questions and nothing falls through the cracks. ## Core Features & Use Cases - EOR vs. Entity Framing: Produces a structured trade-off analysis with permanent establishment (PE) risk flags and drafted questions for the CFO and tax counsel, without making the decision itself. - Cross-Functional Trigger Questions: Drafts specific asks for tax counsel, finance/payroll, and HR/total rewards so legal knows exactly what to request from each function. - Outside-Counsel Briefing Request: Generates a 13-point country-specific briefing agenda covering entity structure, termination, benefits, restrictive covenants, works councils, data protection, and Day 1 compliance. - Persistent Expansion Tracker: Writes a YAML tracker file with attributable open items that persists across sessions and updates via the expansion-update command. - Use Case: Your company wants to hire three sales reps in Germany within 60 days. The Skill gathers intake answers, flags the PE risk from sales roles, drafts the CFO/tax questions, produces the German outside-counsel briefing request, and creates a tracker with owners and statuses. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to run the expansion kickoff for hiring in a specific country, for example: start an international expansion plan for hiring two engineers in the Netherlands.
