# Chore startup deal: 15% off your first month

> Chore runs your startup's back office for you: payroll, HR, bookkeeping, compliance and equity, inside the tools you already use. 15% off your first month through SaaSOffers.

- **Offer:** 15% off your first month
- **Save up to:** $255
- **Category:** HR & People
- **How to get it:** Free to claim with a free SaaSOffers account. https://saasoffers.tech/offers/chore
- **Eligibility:** New Chore customers. Book your intro call through the SaaSOffers link to get 15% off your first month.

## What you get

- 15% off your first month (book through the SaaSOffers link)
- A Strategic Operations Partner who owns your back office
- Payroll, onboarding, benefits and HR compliance handled
- Bookkeeping, AP/AR, 1099s and R&D tax credit filing
- State registrations, Delaware franchise tax and annual reports
- Cap table updates, option grants and 409A coordination
- Works inside Gusto, Rippling, Carta and QuickBooks
- Live in 48 hours, no retainers, no lock-in

## What Chore is

[Chore](https://www.hirechore.com/) is a back-office team you hire as a service. It runs HR, payroll, bookkeeping, compliance and equity admin for startups, inside the tools you already use: Gusto, Rippling, Carta, QuickBooks and the rest of your stack.

It is not another software subscription. Each customer gets a Strategic Operations Partner who owns the outcome, a group of specialists who do the work (HR, finance, compliance, equity), and Ollie, Chore's AI ops assistant, which keeps tasks moving between them. You make the decisions. Chore does the execution.

Chore says it works with 500+ startups and can be live in 48 hours, with no retainers and no lock-in.

![Chore homepage: the human team that runs your startup's back office](https://zlcbkfmbwwroglopnrhf.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/blog-images/deals/chore/chore-hd-1.png)

*Chore runs HR, finance, compliance and equity work across the tools you already use.*

## What the SaaSOffers deal gives you

Founders who come through SaaSOffers get **15% off their first month** with Chore. You claim it by booking your intro call through the link on this page. The call is credited to SaaSOffers automatically, so you do not need a code.

On the Chief of Staff plan, which starts at $1,700 a month, 15% off the first month saves $255. On the HR plan (from $1,300 a month) it saves $195, and on Finance (from $249 a month) about $37.

## The problem Chore solves

Look at a seed-stage founder's week and count the hours that go to work nobody sees:

- Running payroll, adding a new hire in a state where the company is not registered yet, and chasing I-9s.
- Closing the books, paying vendors, and answering the bank's KYC email.
- Issuing option grants, updating the cap table, and noticing the 409A is 14 months old.
- Handling the state notice, the insurance renewal, and the investor's diligence request.

Each task is small. Together they eat a day a week, and the cost of missing one is real: a late franchise tax filing, a payroll error, a cap table that does not match the board consents when a term sheet arrives.

The usual answers are to hire a head of operations (slow and expensive at this stage), hire a fractional COO (advice, but you still do the work), or buy more software (the tools do not own the work, you do). Chore's pitch is a fourth option: keep your tools and hand the work to a team that is accountable for it.

## What Chore handles

Chore's scope is broad. These are the main areas from its own plan descriptions.

### Human resources

- Payroll processing on your system of choice, including Gusto and Rippling, with new hire, termination and bonus payrolls.
- Onboarding and offboarding, including IT access in Google, Slack, Notion and Ramp.
- Benefits administration and compensation management.
- I-9 employee verification and HR compliance.
- Offer letters, NDAs, CIIAs and consulting agreements sent from templates.
- Policies and vendor choices for hiring, PTO and compensation.

### Finance

- Monthly bookkeeping with key reports: P&L, balance sheet and cash flow statement.
- Accounts payable and accounts receivable.
- Collecting W-9s from contractors and issuing 1099s.
- R&D tax credit preparation and filing.
- Tax coordination, plus CFO support for modeling and investor information requests.

### Compliance

- State registrations and filings across all states.
- Delaware franchise tax and state annual reports.
- Workers' comp, state disability and paid family leave management.
- Labor compliance vendors (posters, training) and regulator interactions.
- A Chore phone line you can give to government agencies, monitored by the team.

### Equity

- Cap table updates in your cap table software after board consent.
- Stock option grants, equity issuances and exercises.
- Coordinating the 409A valuation with the valuation firm.
- Reminders for 83(b) elections and stock purchase payments.
- Investor quarterly and annual audits, plus a first data room during a fundraise.

### Everything else

Chore also covers the admin that falls between functions: virtual mail, company phone numbers, organizing Google Drive with the right permissions, keeping a diligence-ready drive, and access management when people join or leave.

![Chore pricing: HR from $1,300, Chief of Staff from $1,700, Finance from $249 a month](https://zlcbkfmbwwroglopnrhf.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/blog-images/deals/chore/chore-hd-2.png)

*Chore's three plans. The SaaSOffers deal takes 15% off your first month.*

## Pricing breakdown

Chore publishes three main plans. All prices are starting points and scale with company size and scope.

| Plan | Starts at | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| **Chore Finance** | $249/month | Bookkeeping, taxes, AP/AR and CFO support |
| **Chore Human Resources** | $1,300/month | HR execution without a full-time head of HR |
| **Chief of Staff** | $1,700/month | The whole back office, owned and run |

Chief of Staff is the plan Chore marks as most popular. It includes everything in HR plus a weekly operating cadence, a dedicated Strategic Operations Partner, cross-functional coordination and priority support.

There are also standalone modules if you only want to fix one problem first:

- **Bookkeeping**: from $225/month, books closed by the 15th, a dedicated bookkeeper, burn and KPI reporting.
- **Accounts Payable**: from $499/month.
- **Accounts Receivable**: from $499/month.
- **Fractional CFO**: from $999.
- **Tax** (federal and state filings, extensions, notices): from $999.

No retainers, no lock-in. With the SaaSOffers deal, the first month is 15% cheaper.

## How Chore compares to the alternatives

Chore publishes its own comparison. The numbers are Chore's, so read them as its positioning, but the shape is fair:

| Option | Monthly cost | Time to live | Who does the work |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-house operations hire | $9,000+ | 3 to 4 months | One generalist |
| Fractional COO or chief of staff | $6,000 to $10,000 | 1 to 2 weeks | Nobody (advice only) |
| AI ops tools | $300 to $800 | 2 to 4 weeks | You |
| Chore | From $1,300 | 48 hours | A team of specialists |

The real trade-off is control versus time. An in-house hire knows your company deeply but costs far more and leaves when they leave. Software is cheap but only works if someone runs it. Chore sits in between: cheaper than a hire, and the work actually gets done.

## Chore vs Gusto and Rippling

This is the comparison most founders make first, and it is the wrong one. Gusto and Rippling are software. Chore is the team that runs them.

- **Gusto** runs payroll, benefits and basic HR for small US teams. It is easy to use, but it does not register you in a new state for you, chase the I-9, reconcile payroll against the books or update Carta when someone exercises options.
- **Rippling** goes further, with IT, device management and global payroll in one system. It is powerful, and it needs someone who knows how to configure and maintain it.
- **Chore** keeps whichever of these you already use and does the work around them: running payroll on time, handling the new state registration, closing the books, and keeping HR, finance and equity in sync.

In practice, most Chore customers keep Gusto or Rippling. The question is not which tool to buy. It is who on your team owns the work, and whether that should still be you.

## Who Chore fits

- **Funded US startups from pre-seed to Series A** with a few employees across one or more states, where payroll, state registrations and equity admin have started to pile up.
- **Founders who are the de facto head of operations** and want those hours back for product and sales.
- **Teams preparing to raise**, where a clean cap table, closed books and an organized data room matter.
- **Companies that already use Gusto, Rippling, Carta or QuickBooks** and want someone to run them properly rather than switching tools.

### Who should skip it

- **Solo founders before revenue or payroll.** If you have no employees and a simple ledger, a bookkeeping app and a few hours a month are enough. Chore has a questionnaire on its site, "Am I too early for Chore?", if you are unsure.
- **Companies outside the US.** Chore's scope is built around US payroll, state filings and Delaware entities.
- **Teams that already have a strong operations hire.** Chore can still take modules like bookkeeping or tax, but the full plan overlaps.

## A realistic first month

Here is how the first weeks typically look for a seed-stage company handing over its back office:

1. **Intro call.** You book through the SaaSOffers link, walk through your stack and what is on fire, and agree on scope.
2. **Live in 48 hours.** Chore gets access to your existing tools. You keep your Gusto, Rippling, Carta or QuickBooks accounts.
3. **Audit and cleanup.** The team checks state registrations, payroll setup, the cap table and the books, then lists what is missing or overdue.
4. **Recurring work starts.** Payroll runs, monthly close, vendor payments and onboarding move to Chore. You get pulled in for decisions, not for tasks.
5. **Weekly cadence.** On the Chief of Staff plan, a weekly operating rhythm keeps you up to date on what was done and what needs a decision.

## What Chore needs from you

Handing over the back office does not mean disappearing from it. Plan for these on your side:

- **Access to your tools.** Admin or delegated access to payroll, accounting, cap table software, Google Workspace and your bank's read-only view, so the team can work where your data already lives.
- **A decision maker.** Chore escalates decisions, not tasks: approving a bonus payroll, choosing a benefits plan, signing a board consent. Someone on your side needs to answer quickly.
- **Your history.** Past filings, the latest 409A, board consents and existing contracts. The first weeks go faster when the team can see what was already done.
- **Clear scope.** Agree on the call what Chore owns from day one and what stays with you. The modules make it easy to start narrow and add more later.

## Questions to ask on the intro call

The call is where the 15% discount is attached, so use it well:

1. What exactly is included at our headcount, and what would push the price above the starting figure?
2. Who is our Strategic Operations Partner, and how do we reach them day to day?
3. How do you handle a missed deadline or a payroll error, and who is accountable?
4. Can we start with one module, such as bookkeeping, and move to the full plan later?
5. What do you need from us in the first week to be live in 48 hours?

Good answers to these tell you more than any feature list.

## How to claim the deal

1. Click **Get Deal** on this page.
2. Book your intro call with Chore through that link. It is credited to SaaSOffers automatically.
3. Sign up for the plan that fits. Your first month is 15% off.

The offer is for new Chore customers. If anything about the discount is unclear on the call, mention that you came from SaaSOffers.

## Final verdict

Chore is a good fit when operations has quietly become a part-time job for a founder. It is priced well below an operations hire, it works inside the tools you already have, and it takes responsibility for the boring work that becomes expensive when it is missed. If you are pre-payroll or outside the US, wait. If you are spending a day a week on payroll, filings and the cap table, book the call and use the 15% off to test it for a month.

## FAQ

### What is Chore?

Chore is a back-office team for startups. A Strategic Operations Partner and a group of specialists run your HR, payroll, bookkeeping, compliance and equity admin inside the tools you already use, such as Gusto, Rippling, Carta and QuickBooks.

### What does the SaaSOffers deal give me?

15% off your first month with Chore. Book your intro call through the link on this page and it is credited to SaaSOffers automatically. No code is needed.

### How much does Chore cost?

Chore Finance starts at $249 a month, Chore Human Resources at $1,300 a month and the Chief of Staff plan at $1,700 a month. Standalone modules start at $225 a month for bookkeeping and $499 a month for accounts payable or receivable. There are no retainers and no lock-in.

### Do I have to switch tools to use Chore?

No. Chore works across the tools you already use, including Gusto, Rippling, Carta and QuickBooks.

### How fast can Chore start?

Chore says it can be live in 48 hours after you sign up, with no long implementation.

### Is Chore a fit for very early startups?

It fits best once you have employees, payroll and state filings to manage. If you are a solo founder without payroll, a bookkeeping app is usually enough for now. Chore has an "Am I too early for Chore?" questionnaire on its site.

### Does Chore work outside the US?

Chore is built around US payroll, state registrations and Delaware entities, so it fits US companies best.

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Source: SaaSOffers, https://saasoffers.tech/offers/chore