Niural has launched Niural AI Labs, a neolab to advance the building of AI agents for the world's highest-stakes work, where being wrong isn't an option.
Proven first in payroll and benefits, the Lab now extends that capability into other domains, alongside a Series A grown to $52 million.
Top 8 PEO Myths That Are Quietly Costing You
Every leader knows the moment: the third payroll correction this quarter, the benefits renewal nobody had time to read, the out-of-state hire that triggered a tax registration no one saw coming. The back office is eating the week, and most companies keep running employment the hard way because of something they once heard about PEOs. Almost all of it is outdated or just wrong. Here are the eight myths that stall the most decisions:
- "Sign with a PEO, and they basically run my company."
- "Guess I'll have to let my HR person go."
- "A PEO is just payroll with a fancier name."
- "We're too small for something like that."
- "Sounds great, and way out of our budget."
- "Won't I lose my small-business perks?"
- "My team is going to hate this."
- "Aren't all PEOs basically the same?"
Here's what a PEO actually does: Through co-employment, the PEO becomes the administrative employer for payroll, tax, and benefits, while you keep full control of your business and your people. Your team stays your team. The PEO takes the employer paperwork that comes with them, and an AI-native PEO goes further, validating every payroll run and catching errors before they reach a filing. It isn't a loss of control. It's how growing companies get enterprise capability without enterprise headcount.
See how PEO myths are costing you the most
Here are the latest updates to our timetools and EOR:
- Decide exactly what each worker can edit, delete, discard, or clock, with granular control by classification.
- Choose whether time off accrues from the original hire date or the hire date for PEO employees.
- Holiday hours are now split from regular hours as separate line items in payroll runs and paystubs.
- Observe weekend holidays the business day before, the day after, or a custom date you pick.
- Slack pings your ops team the moment critical EOR data moves.
- Email nudges for pending expense and time-off requests, plus outstanding Niural invoices.
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