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All of our suggested vendors & best practices guides.
Distributed Team Tools
Name
URL
Category
About
Our Picks
Section
1
SignalFire’s Remote Work Market Map
Remote Work Tool List
Our guide to over 200 startups building remote work tools
Setting Up Team
2
Candidate Labs
Hiring
A tech-enabled hiring agency that does the recruiting work for you
Hiring & Recruiting
3
Customer Service
Chat bots and human operators for answering queries on your site or customer service lines
5
ShieldGeo
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding
Global PEO for hiring FTEs abroad
Setting Up Team
6
Papaya Global
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding
Hiring, payroll, onboarding, and management for global employees
Setting Up Team
Hiring & Recruiting
7
Arc
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding,Hiring
Arc helps you effortlessly hire world-class remote engineers and teams.
Hiring & Recruiting
8
Airtable
Documentation/Note Taking
Database visualized as a spreadsheet to help organize and collaborate on work
Managing Your Team
9
Notion
Documentation/Note Taking
All-in-one workspace to plan, write, collaborate, and organize ideas
Managing Your Team
10
Miro
Virtual Whiteboard
Collaborative whiteboard for distributed teams
Managing Your Team
11
Coda
Documentation/Note Taking
All-in-one doc for teams combining text documents, spreadsheets, and more
Managing Your Team
12
Range
Productivity Tools,Culture
Whether at home or work, build successful teams with Range. Stay in sync, feel connected, and get more done.
Managing Your Team
14
Welcome
Culture
We help you elevate your hiring brand, streamline your workflow, and access real-time insights to close more candidates
Hiring & Recruiting
15
Culture Amp
Culture,Employee Engagement
Take action to improve employee engagement, retention, and performance
Cultivating Culture
16
Trainual
L&D,Documentation/Note Taking
Don't waste time answering the same questions over and over again. Document and organize every process, policy, and procedure in one place.
Onboarding New Employees
17
Lattice
OKRs,Employee Engagement
Supercharge your managers & keep employees engaged from anywhere
Managing Your Team
19
Byteboard
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding
A candidate-data-anonymized technical interview tool
Hiring & Recruiting
20
Coderpad
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding
Online IDE for Technical Interviews
Hiring & Recruiting
21
Toptal
Remote Hiring
Remote technical hiring, only handles freelance
Hiring & Recruiting
22
Lessonly
Onboarding/Training
Easy to set up training programs
Onboarding New Employees
23
Gitlab Compensation Calculator
Hiring
A tool from the world’s largest all-remote company to help you benchmark compensation across geographies
Hiring & Recruiting
24
Economic Research Institute
Hiring
Salary Survey Data and Geographic Pay Differentials
Hiring & Recruiting
25
Friday
Communication
Friday is an all-in-one asynchronous work platform. Streamline regular updates like daily standups, weekly updates, and more.
Managing Your Team
27
Google Meet
Video Conferencing
Free (if you use G Suite) and solid video conferencing software. Native integration to Google Calendar
29
Daily
Video Conferencing
The Daily.co API adds video chat to any app or site, in minutes. We have more features that make live video easier to work with, so developers launch faster, ship more, and scale with global infrastructure.
30
Around
Video Conferencing
Video conference calls that don't take up your whole screen (talking heads)
31
Grain
Transcription + Collaboration
Built to be used during and after calls, Grain is a better way to share vital information from a Zoom conversation. You can capture the moments that matter and turn them into shareable video highlights.
32
Fireflies
Transcription + Collaboration
Record, Transcribe and Search across your voice conversations
33
Otter
Transcription + Collaboration
Generate rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations with Otter, your AI-powered assistant.
34
Navigator
Communication
Navigator keeps modern teams on the same page even when they're not in the same room.
35
Involve
Communication
Communication OS for your distributed workforce. First platform for top-down communication with bottoms-up intelligence
37
Jamm
Collaboration Workspaces,Communication
Lightweight, Spontaneous Voice and Video Collaboration for Remote Teams
38
Remote HQ
Collaboration Workspaces
Video conference and chat plus collaboration tools for editing in apps, sharing files, digital whiteboard, and more
40
Pragli
Collaboration Workspaces,Virtual Office
Video conference and chat plus virtual office space with watercooler and meetings baked in
41
Sococo
Collaboration Workspaces,Virtual Office
Sococo is the online workplace where distributed teams come to work together each day, side-by-side
42
Teemly
Collaboration Workspaces,Virtual Office
The virtual office truly connecting distributed teams
43
Tandem
Collaboration Workspaces,Virtual Office
Video conference and chat plus virtual office, water cooler, co-editing in web apps
44
Threads
Collaboration Workspaces
Threads empowers teams to easily share, discuss, and make decisions no matter where they are.
45
Clickup
Collaboration Workspaces
All your work in one place: Tasks, docs, chat, goals, & more.
46
Feedback Hero
Collaboration Workspaces
Collaborate asynchronously with the power of voice, video and screen recording on any website, screenshot, GitHub code review, Jira comments or Slack messages.
47
Blink
Collaboration Workspaces,Culture
Connect your people, manage disruption, transform communication and build your culture with a simple app your people will love.
48
Slite
Collaboration Workspaces,Documentation/Note Taking
Centralize and organize your team’s knowledge with Slite
49
Workvivo
Collaboration Workspaces,Culture
Workvivo is the engaging central communication hub for your organization and the go-to place for employees to access all of your corporate applications and resources.
50
CoScreen
Pair Programming
Turn your secondary display into your joint team desktop. Share windows via drag & drop, collaborate remotely via mouse & keyboard, each user gets their own mouse pointer
51
Screen
Pair Programming
Fast screen sharing with multiplayer control, drawing & video.
53
Use Together
Pair Programming
Remote Pair Programming and Team Collaboration tool.
54
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding
Hiring, payroll, benefits and taxes for global employees
55
Deel
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding
Focused on hiring, paying, onboarding global contractors, doesn't currently handle FTEs
56
Rippling
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding
Combining the HR and IT parts of onboarding but only handle US
57
RemoteTeam
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding
Hiring, paying, compliance and helping establish culture connections for FTEs or contractors
58
Pilot
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding
Hire global employees in a compliant way or pay international contractors anywhere in the world
60
Terminal
Remote Office,Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding,Hiring
Remote offices for engineering teams
62
Distributed
Remote Hiring/Payroll/Onboarding,Hiring
Distributed makes working with globally distributed teams as easy as working with in-house teams
63
Confirm
Hiring
Confirm is the job placement service that uses the knowledge of your colleagues to get you the perfect job, faster.
64
Remo
Virtual Webinar/Conference
Create virtual webinars, conferences, live Q&As, or summits
66
Hopin
Virtual Webinar/Conference
All-in-one live online events platform where attendees can learn, interact, and connect with people from anywhere in the world
67
Crowdcast
Virtual Webinar/Conference
Interactive live conversations at scale. Focused on creators
69
VFairs
Virtual Webinar/Conference
Host Virtual Job Fairs, Online Trade Shows, Online Conferences & more. Connect audiences globally using chat tools, live webinars & digital content, backed by unbeatable 24/7 customer support
70
Airmeet
Virtual Webinar/Conference
Online events that encourage immersive interactions and networking among attendees
71
Teooh
Virtual Webinar/Conference
Teooh is an environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional events. We can provide a social experience for groups of people who otherwise can't attend events in-person. Scale your events globally without scaling overhead costs.
74
Standuply
Remote Standups
Automate Agile processes (standups, retros, motivational check-ins) in Slack
77
Coda
Documentation/Note Taking
All-in-one doc for teams combining text documents, spreadsheets, and more
79
MURAL
Virtual Whiteboard
Digital workplace for visual collaboration, mind-mapping, brainstorming, planning, and more
80
Mentimeter
Virtual Whiteboard
Create interactive presentations & meetings, wherever you are
83
HIve
Productivity Tools
Join thousands of companies moving faster with Hive’s powerful project and process management software.
84
Monday
Productivity Tools
Workflow and organization tool for team and individual projects
85
Motion
Productivity Tools
Motion actively prevents you from getting distracted on the web through real-time interventions, reminders, and analytics.
86
Focusmate
Productivity Tools
"Virtual coworking" productivity tool to help you get into a flow state
87
Productivity Tools
Helping remote teams schedule meetings and know when people are available, working, focusing, on vacation, etc
88
Trello
Productivity Tools
Borads cards, and lists to help organize team and individual work
90
Kettle
Productivity Tools
Helping teams focus when they need to and collaborate better in various apps
91
Centered
Productivity Tools
Mindfulness meets productivity for task creation, prioritization, and measurement.
92
Serene
Productivity Tools
MacOS app to help plan your day, block distractions, and focus
95
BeyondHQ
Other
Help companies find locations for expansion and set up remote offices
96
Firstbase
Other
Remote office hardware provisioning (give employees desk, chair, monitor, etc for home office)
98
Cherry
Culture
Personalized perks including family planning, mobility, health
100
Betterworks
Culture,OKRs
HR platform for team goals, alignment, engagement, and insights
101
Bob
Culture,Employee Engagement
HRIS focused on culture and employee engagement
103
Hallway
Culture,Communication
Schedule breaks for your teams to connect in timed video chat "break rooms"
105
Charthop
Culture,Org Chart
Visualize and understand the past, present and future of your organization. Plan for any scenario — with context.
106
Mento
Culture,L&D
Mento supports you every step of your career, from managing layoffs and your personal runway, to your job search and remote work during COVID-19.
107
Everwise
L&D,Coaching/Training
A better way to deliver learning across your organization. (Merged with Torch)
108
Torch
L&D,Coaching/Training
Personalized coaching and development platform built to maximize the growth of your high-performing leaders. (Merged with Everwise)
109
Sidekick
L&D,Coaching/Training
Democratized coaching platform and marketplace for teams
110
Betterup
L&D,Coaching/Training
Professional coaching for all levels of an org
Managing Your Team
111
Strive
L&D,Coaching/Training
Strive combines people and technology to deliver targeted training that lasts
113
Hone HQ
Coaching/Training
The all-in-one leadership, management, and people skills training platform for modern teams
115
Byteboard
Interviewing
Pre-onsite interview assessments for technical hiring
117
Clockwise
Calendar
Intelligent calendar assistant to help you focus on what matters
118
Woven
Calendar
Work calendar, personal calendar, and scheduling tools all in one place
119
Command Dot
Calendar
Power user tools to combine gmail and Google Calendar to make scheduling a breeze
121
Reclaim
Calendar
Audit and rebalance your calendar, automatically defend your time, and get your week back in minutes.
122
Fellow
Calendar
Fellow helps managers and their teams have the best 1‑on‑1s, team meetings, project syncs and so much more
123
Zynq
Calendar
Automatically picks the time and room for meetings. It works on top of Chrome and Google Calendar, so there's no need to change the calendar app
124
Outsite
Co-living / Co-working
We offer safe and clean coliving spaces, community, and services designed for remote workers and entrepreneurs.
125
Upflex
Co-living / Co-working
Upflex combines technology, the largest network of workspaces, and a recognized workplace safety program to help businesses be agile, efficient, and safe.
126
Workboard
OKRs
OKR and business continuity software with the expertise you need now
127
Ally
OKRs
OKRs help teams move quickly and give leaders visibility into work across the company
131
Twist
Messaging
Eliminate your team’s need to spread discussions across email and chat apps by keeping information organized and transparent in Twist.
132
'nuffsaid
Messaging,Collaboration Workspaces
Messaging + collaboration across your apps
135
SafetyWing
Hiring
Travel medical insurance that covers people from all over the world while outside their home country
Onboarding New Employees
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135
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