For EOR and global payroll platforms
Your employment law partner in Colombia
EOR, global payroll and staffing platforms need someone in-country who owns Colombian employment law. Bonsai is that partner: contracts and compliance backed by MGL Asociados, a Bogotá labour-law firm, and delivered inside your product rather than by email.
Who can be an EOR platform's employment law partner in Colombia?
A Colombian labour-law firm that can also deliver at platform speed. Bonsai is backed by MGL Asociados, an employment-law firm founded in Bogotá in 2004, and generates and validates Colombian employment contracts against the code in force over API or MCP. Cases that need judgment go to the firm's attorneys.
What an in-country partner covers
Everything Colombia-specific in the employment lifecycle, from the offer to the dispute.
Employment contracts that match the modality
Indefinite-term, fixed-term and work-scope contracts. Modality is not a label in Colombia: it decides the permitted probation period, the notice that runs and the severance owed if it ends early.
Spanish originals, with IP assignment and data-protection consent.
Your existing book, audited
Batch validation across contracts already signed, so you know which ones ceased to comply after a reform rather than discovering it through a claim.
Regulatory change, tracked
Colombia's 2025 labour reform (Ley 2466) and the phased cut to the working week (Ley 2101) changed what a compliant contract says. The criteria behind Bonsai move with the law, not with a quarterly review.
Employee petitions and tutelas
Colombian employees can file petitions and constitutional claims with deadlines measured in days. Drafts arrive grounded and the clock is tracked.
Attorneys for any employer need
When a case needs judgment rather than a draft — a contested termination, a reinforced-stability claim, a labour inspection, a lawsuit — MGL Asociados' attorneys take it, as they do for the large Colombian companies they advise.
Inside your onboarding flow
Delivered by API or MCP, not in a separate tab your operations team has to remember to open.
Backed by MGL Asociados
A law firm behind the software, so your legal review has someone to hold accountable.
A Colombian labour-law firm
The legal criteria are maintained by MGL Asociados, an employment-law firm founded in Bogotá in 2004 that advises large Colombian companies on every labour matter. Bonsai's AI agent works from that criteria, not from a general-purpose model's opinion about Colombia.
Every clause traces to a provision
Your legal team can audit the output instead of trusting it, which is the difference between a tool legal approves and one it quietly abandons.
An audit trail by default
What was generated, under which rules and when. This is what an enterprise customer asks for during security and legal review.
Answers that decline
When a question exceeds what can be grounded, the system says so rather than producing a plausible citation, so your escalation path triggers on a signal, not a guess.
More about the firm at mglasociados.com. Integration detail is in API and MCP.
How a partnership works
Three steps, starting with your current Colombian contracts.
1 · Scope
Which contract types, roles and volumes you issue in Colombia, and where your current templates fall short.
2 · Integrate
Contracts generated and validated over API or MCP at the point of onboarding, or attorney-reviewed templates and documents for any employer need if you are not ready to integrate.
3 · Operate
Reforms reflected as they take effect, existing contracts re-validated, and edge cases escalated to the firm.
Partnership enquiries: contacto@soybonsai.com
Questions platforms ask
Who is the legal partner behind Bonsai in Colombia?
MGL Asociados, a Colombian employment-law firm based in Bogotá and founded in 2004, which advises large Colombian companies on every labour matter. The firm maintains the legal criteria Bonsai's AI agent applies, and its attorneys handle the cases that need professional judgment rather than a generated draft.
Can an EOR platform use Bonsai as its Colombian contract provider?
Yes. That is the use case it is built for: employment contracts for Colombian hires generated to the right modality and validated against the labour code in force, embedded in the platform's onboarding by API or MCP, with a citation trail for each clause.
How are Colombian labour reforms reflected in the contracts?
The legal criteria are updated as reforms take effect, so new contracts follow the law in force. Contracts already signed can be re-validated in batch to find the ones that need an amendment.
Are the contracts in Spanish?
Yes. Colombian employment contracts are issued in Spanish, which is the version that governs before a Colombian labour judge or inspector.
Is Bonsai a law firm or software?
Both, deliberately. The software does the drafting, validation and deadline tracking; the firm stands behind the criteria and takes the cases that need an attorney. Bonsai's output is informational until a lawyer reviews and signs it.
Jurisdiction: Colombia · Código Sustantivo del Trabajo. This is informational and is not legal advice; professional responsibility rests with whoever reviews and signs.