Steer Workforce

Built because we needed it.

Steer Workforce is built by Steer Platform Pte. Ltd. — Singapore-incorporated since 2019, founded by Arup Maity. It runs the payroll for three real PH-led companies — BlastAsia, Xamun, and Steer Platform itself — before it runs yours.

A modern empty conference room with floor-to-ceiling windows — the quiet workspace where the work gets done.

I'm Arup Maity. I run three companies.

BlastAsia (PH, founded 2000) — software product engineering. Xamun Technologies (UK + PH) — an AI operating system for mid-market businesses. Steer Platform Pte. Ltd. (Singapore, 2019) — this one.

Across these three businesses, I have employees in Manila, contractors in Singapore and London, and a board that meets across four time zones. Payroll is in PHP and SGD and GBP. Some of my team are billable on client work; others are internal. I file 2316s in January and IR8As in March.

I tried every payroll tool that PH professional services firms typically use. Sprout. JustPayroll. Salarium (briefly, before it imploded in 2023). I tried generic global tools — Deel, Remote, Rippling. None of them handled my actual setup.

The PH tools couldn't handle foreign contractors. The global tools didn't speak PH compliance. None of them treated the timesheet as the source of truth for both payroll AND client billing — which is a structural problem, not a feature gap, because it forces everything downstream into reconciliation hell.

So I built it.

We started by running BlastAsia's payroll on Steer Workforce. Then Xamun. Then we opened it up to other firms. We dogfood publicly because trust matters more than marketing claims.

I'm based in Manila. We're incorporated in Singapore. We host PH customer data in PH infrastructure. We expand across ASEAN because the same problem exists everywhere.

If you run a project-driven professional services firm and you're tired of three tools that don't agree on the same number, let me show you what we built.

— Arup

Credentials.

  • Co-Founder & CEO, Xamun
  • Founder & Chairman, BlastAsia
  • Adjunct Faculty, Asian Institute of Management (since 2001)
  • Director, Philippine Software Industry Association
  • Author, The Always-On Enterprise (Amazon KDP, forthcoming)

What we believe.

Boring software does the boring jobs perfectly.
Payroll math is deterministic. Compliance is deterministic. Bank files are deterministic. We don't AI those.
AI does the cognitive work humans hate.
Explaining variance. Drafting notices. Pre-filling timesheets. Catching errors before they ship. Answering compliance questions. That's where AI earns its keep.
Customers own their data.
Export anytime, in standard formats. We don't lock you in. The Salarium experience taught the PH market what happens when software companies treat customer data as theirs to hold.
Compliance is a feature, not a service.
We don't sell payroll outsourcing. We sell software that does PH compliance correctly so you don't have to outsource it.
Specialist beats generalist for our segment.
Project-driven professional services firms have specific needs generic HR platforms don't address. We're focused, not feature-maximalist.

Get in touch.

  • contact@steerplatform.com
  • Singapore office: SPACE 21, Singapore
  • Manila operations: through BlastAsia, our delivery partner
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