Greetings,

If you’re here, there’s a good chance you care about more than just getting a vendor in place quickly. You care about making decisions that are defensible, thoughtful, and won’t come back to bite you six months into a new market launch.

After two decades inside corporate governance and compliance, I’ve watched smart teams burn months on vendor searches that were doomed from the start, not because the market lacked options, but because there wasn’t a clear, repeatable way to define “fit” and evaluate it. The IVP Playbook is my way of helping you tune out the noise.

If you’re tired of picking global partners based on who shouts the loudest, lands on a pay‑to‑play list, or has the slickest logo wall, you’re in the right place. This series is for people who’d rather build an intentional vendor strategy than spin up a fire drill every time a new country, EOR question, payroll wrinkle, tax angle, or immigration issue appears.

When you join, you’ll get periodic, longer‑form essays and frameworks, not daily growth hacks or generic checklists. We’ll talk about how to define and evolve your Ideal Vendor Profile, how to run selection in a way that’s faster, more transparent, and easier to defend internally, and how to turn compliance and infrastructure partners into actual growth levers instead of a drag on the business.

If that sounds like the kind of help you’ve been looking for, drop your email and stick around. When vendor strategy is back on the table, I want this to be the resource you reach for first.

Cheers,

Steven Fernandez | Founder