Kernel brings every HR service you need to manage your African teams into a single platform: recruitment, EOR, COR, payroll, and more. Local compliance assured, on-the-ground presence across the 54 countries.
Africa is not a country. It is 54 markets, 54 labour codes, 54 tax systems, 54 economic realities, but also 54 opportunities and 54 exceptional talent pools. Operating across them effectively takes tools and on-the-ground expertise designed for the continent’s real complexity.
Kernel brings every lever together: recruitment, EOR, COR, multi-country payroll, contractor management, work environment. All operated by a proprietary platform paired with Kernel teams on the ground, across every country of the continent.
Eight integrated services covering the full lifecycle of your employees and contractors in Africa. Activable separately, operated together.
Become an employer in all 54 African countries without setting up an entity. EOR for permanent and fixed-term employees, COR for contractors. Local compliance assured.
Over 100,000 qualified profiles, shortlists in 5 to 10 days, across every role and seniority.
Multi-country HRIS and payroll. Leave, contracts, social and tax filings handled locally.
Manage and locally contract your African contractors. Multi-currency and mobile money payments.
Operated hub in Casablanca and vetted partner offices across the entire African continent.
Purchase or lease, configuration, secure delivery and local support for your African teams.
Set up your African entity in the right country. Selected local legal partners, end-to-end support.
A single interface to run all your Kernel services, your teams and your African compliance.
A single interface for your HR, finance and IT teams, your employees and your contractors. Built for African complexity, operated every day by our local teams across the 54 countries.
Executives in Dakar, engineers in Abidjan, marketing leads in Tunis, analysts in Casablanca. Kernel puts these talents in the spotlight and opens the world’s best companies to them, without uprooting anyone.
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Without setting up an entity, within days, with a locally compliant contract and payroll.
Without setting up an entity, within days, with a locally compliant contract and payroll.
Centralise contracts, leave, payroll, compliance and reporting in a single platform.
Centralise contracts, leave, payroll, compliance and reporting in a single platform.
Secure contracts, multi-currency and mobile money payments, full tax compliance.
Secure contracts, multi-currency and mobile money payments, full tax compliance.
Recruitment, contracting, payroll, offices, equipment: all through a single partner.
Recruitment, contracting, payroll, offices, equipment: all through a single partner.
Global platforms treat Africa as one more market. Kernel was built in Africa, for Africa. Three structural choices set us apart.
Kernel teams embedded in our priority markets and a selected legal and operational partner network everywhere else. This is not a centralised back office in Europe, these are people who speak the language, know the administrations and the local customs.
Deep knowledge of every country’s legal, tax and social framework. Collective agreements, mobile money, remote work taxation, CFA franc payroll, ITES compliance, immigration: our lawyers integrate local specifics into every case.
A proprietary platform built for African complexity, paired with dedicated teams that handle sensitive operations. You get the fluidity of tech and the reliability of people, without trading off one for the other.
Every hire made through Kernel creates a qualified job in Africa, secures a career path and helps structure the local economy. Behind every payslip, there is a life moving forward.
HR, Finance and Operations leaders share their experience after trusting Kernel to handle the recruitment, payroll or management of their African teams.
Kernel sourcing saved us precious time. Calibrated profiles, structured process, bilingual support all the way through.
With Kernel, we hired our first permanent staff in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire in under three weeks. Fully compliant, locally declared, with no local entity to set up.
Centralised multi-country payroll changed everything for us. One contact, compliant payslips, full visibility on social charges.
Talk to a Kernel expert, explore the platform, or create your client account. Our team gets back to you with a recommendation aligned with your countries, profiles and timeline.
No commitment. Fast response on business days.
