About Us

We've spent 15 years fixing India's compliance mess.
Now we've packaged it for you.

Peple is built by a team of Chartered Accountants and corporate lawyers who've helped dozens of foreign companies navigate India's regulatory maze. We got tired of watching great companies fail at the paperwork. So we built the solution we always wished existed.

Our Story

Born out of frustration. Built with experience.

Every year, hundreds of US tech companies try to hire engineers in India. Most of them get the same advice: "Just use an EOR." So they sign up for a SaaS platform, onboard a few engineers — and then the problems start. A laptop can't be delivered without paying 40% import duty. A compliance deadline gets missed because no one told them about it. An engineer resigns and the laptop disappears. And when they finally decide to build their own entity, the EOR makes it a nightmare to leave.

We've seen this story play out dozens of times. Our team at KRPR & Associates has been handling cross-border compliance, FEMA filings, and corporate law for foreign-owned Indian companies for over a decade. We know exactly where the gaps are — and we know how to fill them.

Peple is the answer to the question we kept hearing: "Is there one company that can just handle everything — the hiring, the hardware, the office, and the compliance — so we don't have to think about it?" The answer is yes. That company is us.

What Sets Us Apart

Not a tech startup pretending to understand India. A compliance firm that built a product.

Deep regulatory roots

We are practising Chartered Accountants and corporate lawyers. We handle RBI investment filings, India-US cross-border tax compliance, and company law for our clients every day. That expertise is baked into everything Peple does — not outsourced to a third party.

Real physical operations

Most EOR platforms are software companies. Peple has on-the-ground logistics infrastructure for hardware procurement and recovery, and real estate relationships to set up your branded office space. We handle the physical India that software can't.

Aligned incentives

Every other EOR wants to keep you on their payroll forever — that's how they make money. Our BOT model is designed to graduate you to your own entity. We make money on the transition, not on trapping you. That's a fundamentally different business model.

The Team

Led by practitioners, not platform builders.

The people behind Peple have spent their careers in the trenches of Indian corporate law and cross-border compliance — not in venture-backed SaaS.

Rohit Lohade

Rohit Lohade

Founder | Chartered Accountant
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Rohit is a practising CA at KRPR & Associates, Pune — a multi-disciplinary firm specialising in cross-border compliance, FEMA, corporate law, and international tax. He has handled India-entry work for companies from the US, UK, and UAE, and has seen first-hand how operational complexity derails otherwise well-planned India expansions.

Peple is his answer to that problem: a single-vendor, full-stack India operations partner built on real compliance expertise — not just software.

Khushboo Bhattad

Khushboo Bhattad

Co-Founder | Chartered Accountant
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Khushboo is a former Deloitte professional with over 15 years of experience in personal taxation and Indian labour law. She brings big-four rigour to Peple's payroll and compliance operations — ensuring every employee engagement is structured correctly, taxed correctly, and protected correctly from day one.

Parinit Tathed

Parinit Tathed

Co-Founder | Chartered Accountant
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Parinit brings over 15 years of deep expertise in cross-border financial reporting and international taxation. He has advised foreign-owned Indian entities on transfer pricing, India-US tax compliance, and RBI reporting obligations — giving Peple's clients the confidence that their numbers are right on both sides of the border.

How We Work

Four principles we don't compromise on.

Radical transparency

You'll always know exactly what you're paying for, what filings are due, and what's happening with your team. No hidden markups. No surprise invoices. Your dashboard shows everything in real time.

Aligned incentives

We succeed when you succeed. The BOT model means our long-term interest is in growing your India team to the point where you're ready to own the entity — not in keeping you dependent on us.

Speed without shortcuts

48-hour onboarding doesn't mean skipping compliance steps. It means we've done this enough times that we've eliminated the wait — not the work. Every hire is fully compliant, always.

One throat to choke

If something goes wrong — a hardware delay, a payroll query, a compliance question — you call one number. Not a vendor chain. We own the problem end to end.

Peple by the Numbers

Built on a decade of cross-border compliance work.

10+
Years of cross-border compliance experience
35+
Annual filings managed per client entity
48hr
Average time to onboard your first hire
1
Invoice. Everything included.
Backed By

The compliance muscle behind Peple: KRPR & Associates

Peple is operated by the team at KRPR & Associates — a Pune-based multi-disciplinary practice of Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries, and corporate lawyers. The firm handles statutory audit, GST compliance, FEMA and RBI filings, US tax compliance, and corporate law for Indian companies and foreign-owned Indian subsidiaries.

This is not a startup figuring out compliance as it goes. Peple's back-end is a fully operational, licensed professional firm with real regulatory expertise. When we say we handle your India compliance, we mean it literally — our own qualified professionals do the work.

Want to know if Peple is the right fit for you?

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About Peple

Peple is built by Chartered Accountants and corporate lawyers who've spent their careers handling cross-border compliance for foreign-owned Indian companies. We built Peple because we kept watching great companies fail at the paperwork.

The Team

Rohit Lohade

Founder | Chartered Accountant

Rohit is a practising CA at KRPR & Associates, Pune, specialising in cross-border compliance, FEMA, corporate law, and international tax. Peple is his answer to the operational complexity that derails India expansions.

Parinit Tathed

Co-Founder | Chartered Accountant

Parinit brings over 15 years of expertise in cross-border financial reporting, transfer pricing, India-US tax compliance, and RBI reporting obligations.

Khushboo Bhattad

Co-Founder | Chartered Accountant

Former Deloitte professional with over 15 years in personal taxation and Indian labour law, bringing big-four rigour to Peple's payroll and compliance operations.