Why 2025 Marked a Structural Shift for Cadana — Tax Compliance Infrastructure

2025 was a breakout year for Cadana.

It was the year our shift toward embedded, compliance-first infrastructure stopped being a conviction and started compounding in the real world.

Eighteen months earlier, we made a deliberate move away from traditional payroll software. Instead, we focused on building programmable infrastructure for global workforce payments, tax compliance, and statutory remittance, systems designed to sit quietly inside global platforms while handling their most complex regulatory obligations.

In 2025, that direction translated into real, scaled adoption.

2025 Operating Highlights

Here’s what the year looked like:

• 3.5x YoY increase in enterprise platform customer signings
• 6× YoY growth in end-businesses onboarded through enterprise platforms
• 3× YoY growth in customer revenue enabled through embedded Cadana solutions
• Worker payments executed in 118 countries (+35 YoY)
• Tax and statutory remittance live in 87 countries (+61 YoY)

These weren’t pilots or proofs of concept. They were production use cases, running real payrolls, real payments, and real statutory obligations.

What Changed in 2025

Two things became unmistakably clear over the course of the year.

First, compliance is no longer a back-office concern.

Governments are accelerating digitisation, enforcement, and automation across tax and statutory systems. For global platforms, compliance is increasingly inseparable from payments, onboarding, and revenue operations.

Second, platforms want fewer systems, not more.

Rather than stitching together fragmented vendors for payroll, payments, tax calculation, filing, and remittance, platforms are moving toward unified, programmable infrastructure that interfaces directly with both payment rails (workers) and governmental rails (tax authorities).

This shift is structural, not cyclical.

Infrastructure, Not Tooling

What we’re seeing in customer behavior reinforces a core belief:

At scale, platforms don’t need more dashboards.
They need infrastructure that disappears into their stack.

In 2025, Cadana increasingly became that layer:

• Powering worker payments across 118 countries
• Handling tax and statutory remittance across 87 jurisdictions
• Enabling platforms to expand faster without scaling compliance teams linearly

The result is shorter adoption cycles, deeper embeds, and faster time to monetization for our customers.

Looking Ahead to 2026

As we head into 2026, our focus is clear:

• Broader reach across both worker and regulatory rails
• Deeper embeds within existing platform customers
• Continued investment in compliance-first, programmable infrastructure

We’re not chasing surface-level expansion. We’re extending momentum where it already exists.

Thank You

We’re deeply grateful to the customers and partners who trusted this direction early and are building alongside us.

2025 was about breakout and validation.
2026 is about scale.

More to come.