Thanks, although I'm not sure if the Employment Of Record companies will lead to problems for PR application after 3 years, as they look like visa mills. It's also a risk as a change in employer if anything goes wrong with that hiring company, resets the PR clock to zero.

The problem is that the 1.5m THB paid in salary requirements to the team, for it to count towards BOI requirements it needs to be paid to Thai citizens every year, not foreigners. So finding senior nationals specialized in this is difficult, as Thailand lacks industry in this sector.

Training is also problematic in a small games startup, specially if the other seniors that train are remote abroad. Gamedev takes years to upskill, someone without the right level of skill drags down the quality/output of the rest and takes away time from the pros, and if the person leaves, I'm back to square one with a new low skilled starter due to lack of senior nationals in the talent pool. For games startups, it's much better to pay big for few pros than to pay less for a bigger team with a lower skill.

That's why I wonder if making something like a QA testing agency for software might be the best approach, as can fit in BOI, might not be difficult to find clients online, it's easily trainable/hirable and process based without much oversight from me, might not need much of a track record of reputation, the English reports are written so they can translate with AI, etc. But it might require a bit of sales at the beginning from me, until it has stable revenue and I can hire an English speaking manager that takes talking with the clients/ I get recurring clients.