Founder & CEO, Bazl

Two decades in the field.
One problem that
refused to go away.

Chris Fogarty spent the better part of his career inside the Global Mobility and Employer of Record industry — advising organisations on cross-border employment, building EoR frameworks from the ground up, and watching the same preventable compliance failures play out again and again. PolicyPilot is the product he always wished existed.

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Chris Fogarty, Founder of Bazl
Chris Fogarty
Founder & CEO, Bazl  ·  London, UK
20+
Years in Global Mobility & EoR
150+
Countries covered by FlexCheck
3
Focused tools — policy, analysis, risk
<10
Minutes to a compliance decision
The Story

Why PolicyPilot exists — and why it took someone who'd seen the problem firsthand to build it.

The gap was always
the same gap.

Across two decades working in Global Mobility and Employer of Record solutions, Chris Fogarty saw the same scenario play out at organisations of every shape and size: a senior employee wants to work remotely from another country, a new hire is based somewhere the company has no entity, a policy written before hybrid work became the norm is quietly governing decisions nobody is scrutinising.

"HR teams were making high-stakes compliance decisions with gut instinct, outdated templates, and expensive ad-hoc legal advice. The tools to do it properly either didn't exist or cost a fortune."

The risks — permanent establishment exposure, right-to-work violations, GDPR breaches, tax withholding failures — are real, significant, and frequently invisible until it's too late. But the resources available to HR professionals to manage them were locked behind legal budgets and specialist consultants most teams simply don't have.

Chris founded Bazl with a clear mandate: put genuine compliance intelligence into the hands of the HR professionals who need it most — not as a watered-down summary, but as a structured, actionable, AI-powered workflow that delivers real guidance in under ten minutes. PolicyPilot is the direct result.

The Perspective

What years inside the industry taught us about what HR teams actually need.

Built from the inside out.

PolicyPilot isn't a compliance tool designed by software engineers who read about remote work. It's built by someone who spent years operating in Global Mobility and EoR — advising companies on cross-border employment, structuring international workforce arrangements, and watching how organisations respond when the complexity becomes unmanageable.

That experience shaped the product in specific ways. The questions FlexCheck asks are the questions a specialist would ask. The risk flags PolicyPilot surfaces aren't pulled from a generic checklist — they reflect the exposures that actually cost organisations money. The policy output isn't boilerplate; it's structured around how employment law and remote work obligations interact in practice.

"The best compliance tool is one that thinks the way a seasoned practitioner thinks — but delivers the answer in five minutes, not five days."

Bazl exists because that practitioner-grade thinking was only ever available to organisations who could afford specialist consultants. We think every HR team — regardless of size or budget — deserves the same quality of guidance.

Philosophy

The principles behind every decision we make — in the product and the business.

Remote work is permanent.
The tooling hasn't caught up.

The shift to distributed and hybrid work isn't a trend — it's a structural change to how organisations operate. The regulatory environment around it is growing more complex every year. Compliance shouldn't be a luxury reserved for enterprises with in-house legal teams.

Compliance first
Every tool starts from a real legal or regulatory risk. We don't add features for their own sake — we solve genuine problems that cost people money and sleep.
Speed matters
Remote work decisions don't wait for a legal review to complete. Our tools are designed to deliver meaningful guidance in minutes — not weeks.
Built for HR teams
Not lawyers or tax advisors — HR and People professionals are our users. Everything we build is designed to be used by them, with confidence, without specialist training.
The Platform

Three tools covering the full remote work compliance lifecycle — from drafting a policy to screening a specific employee.

About PolicyPilot

PolicyPilot is Bazl's flagship product — an AI-powered suite designed to replace guesswork with structured analysis at every stage of the remote and hybrid work compliance lifecycle. It's built on the same domain knowledge Chris spent two decades accumulating, delivered in a form that any HR professional can use from day one.

Create Policy
AI-assisted policy generation from a guided 78-question workflow. Download as Word. 35 credits.
Analyse Policy
Upload your existing policy. Get a risk score, gap analysis, and actionable recommendations. 25 credits.
FlexCheck
12-question risk screening for individual employees working remotely across 150+ countries. 1 credit.
Permanent establishment risk Right-to-work assessment GDPR & data transfer 150+ jurisdictions Policy risk scoring Provider management Named employee reports Downloadable outputs

See two decades of
domain knowledge at work.

Registration is free. Start with FlexCheck — twelve questions, under five minutes — and see exactly what PolicyPilot surfaces for your team's next cross-border arrangement.

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