Warp Introduces Warp Compliance and $1 Million Payroll Tax Compliance Guarantee

NEW YORK, NY, November 13, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Warp introduced Warp Compliance, a suite that handles compliance work for startups well beyond payroll. Warp is also introducing its Payroll Tax Compliance Guarantee, which pays customers up to $1 million lifetime if Warp gets their payroll tax compliance wrong.

For more than 1,500 companies, Warp already registers employers in new states, files payroll taxes, and resolves tax notices. Warp Compliance builds on that with workplace training, I-9 tracking and reverification, W-8BEN and W-8BEN-E collection for foreign contractors, time-off policy management, and audit logs, all in the same platform where employees get paid.

At early-stage startups, compliance usually falls to the founder, and as the company grows, it passes to the first people-ops or HR hire, often a team of one. For these companies, compliance exposure grows faster than headcount, since every new state, hire, and overseas contractor brings its own registrations, filings, and forms, and the penalties scale right along with them. A single missing date on a Form I-9 can now cost an employer up to $2,861 per form, and because ICE moved more than 10 common I-9 errors from fixable to fineable in March, a 60-person company repeating one error could face $17,000 to $170,000 in fines. Payroll taxes carry personal risk as well, since the IRS Trust Fund Recovery Penalty can hold owners and officers liable for 100% of withheld taxes that go unpaid.

Most companies don't find out about these problems until a notice or fine shows up, because no one on a lean team has time to track them.

“Every payroll company says it handles compliance, but we’re backing that claim with a $1 million guarantee because ambitious companies should build boldly without having to worry about compliance,” said Ayush Sharma, founder and CEO of Warp. “Compliance errors can quietly kill a company, and the IRS can hold founders and officers personally liable for payroll taxes that never reach it. If you’re not a Warp customer yet, ask your payroll provider what happens when they get something wrong. Warp protects companies while they build the future.”

Warp Compliance includes the following features:

• Tax and workplace dashboards give a unified view of every open compliance item, while Warp Agent sends a weekly or monthly report to the right team in Slack that flags gaps and next actions.
• Quarterly and annual compliance reviews catch bad data before it reaches a filing. Warp automatically assigns required training, including state harassment prevention, HIPAA, OSHA, and data privacy, as people join, leave, or change roles, drawing on a content library built with Ethena or a company's own videos. It also tracks I-9s and reverifies work authorization under USCIS rules before it expires, collects and renews W-8BEN and W-8BEN-E forms from foreign contractors, and manages state time-off and sick leave policies.
• Warp handles state registrations, filings, and tax notices, with Warp Agent resolving routine notices and escalating the rest to Warp's in-house tax experts.
• Audit logs record every change to sensitive data across workers, tax notices, benefits, and IT, and training completion records show who finished what, so companies are ready for an auditor, a customer security review, or SOC 2.

Warp Compliance is available today to all Warp customers, who can turn on new features from their Warp dashboard or through their account manager, and companies not yet using Warp can learn more and request a demo at warp.co/compliance.

About Warp

Warp is the AI-native employee management platform. More than 1,500 companies rely on Warp's AI agents to automate payroll, HR, tax compliance, benefits, and IT. Warp has raised $85 million from Battery Ventures, Peak XV, Sapphire, Sound Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Homebrew, and the founders of Shopify, Dropbox, Replit, and Cruise. Founded in 2023, the company is based in New York City.

Disclaimer

The Warp Payroll Tax Compliance Guarantee is subject to specific terms, conditions, and eligibility requirements, including timely and accurate data submission by the customer; full terms are available at warp.co/legal/terms#payroll-tax-guarantee. Information in this release regarding IRS, USCIS, and ICE regulations is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal or tax advice.

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