diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/Uploader.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/Uploader.js
index 46728543a7..5921422cab 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/Uploader.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/Uploader.js
@@ -632,9 +632,8 @@ class Uploader {
 
     try {
       const httpMethod = (this.options.httpMethod || '').toUpperCase() === 'PUT' ? 'put' : 'post'
-      const runRequest = (await got)[httpMethod]
 
-      const response = await runRequest(url, reqOptions)
+      const response = await got[httpMethod](url, reqOptions)
 
       if (bytesUploaded !== this.size) {
         const errMsg = `uploaded only ${bytesUploaded} of ${this.size} with status: ${response.statusCode}`
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/got.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/got.js
index b761d7c6c0..508f6ff9a2 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/got.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/got.js
@@ -1,4 +1,41 @@
-// eslint-disable-next-line import/no-unresolved
-const gotPromise = import('got')
-
-module.exports = gotPromise.then((got) => got.default)
+const loadingModule = import('got').then(({ default: got }) => {
+    module.exports = got
+    return got
+  })
+  
+  const handler = {
+    __proto__: null,
+    get(target, key) {
+      return async (...args) => {
+        const module = await loadingModule
+        let intermediate = module[target.key](...target.args)
+        if (key === 'then') intermediate = Promise.resolve(intermediate)
+        return intermediate[key](...args)
+      }
+    },
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * @typedef {typeof import('got')}
+   */
+  module.exports = new Proxy(
+    {},
+    {
+      // @ts-expect-error __proto__ is fine here.
+      __proto__: null,
+      get(target, key) {
+        return (...args) => {
+          return key === 'then'
+            ? loadingModule.then(...args)
+            : new Proxy(
+                {
+                  key,
+                  args,
+                },
+                handler,
+              )
+        }
+      },
+    },
+  )
+  
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/helpers/request.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/helpers/request.js
index 9de9f5283d..9f1303fbac 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/helpers/request.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/helpers/request.js
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ async function getProtectedGot ({ blockLocalIPs }) {
 
 
   // @ts-ignore
-  return (await got).extend({ agent: { http: httpAgent, https: httpsAgent } })
+  return got.extend({ agent: { http: httpAgent, https: httpsAgent } })
 }
 
 module.exports.getProtectedGot = getProtectedGot
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/jobs.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/jobs.js
index 68fde58210..b1dab62801 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/jobs.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/jobs.js
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ async function runPeriodicPing ({ urls, payload, requestTimeout }) {
   // Run requests in parallel
   await Promise.all(urls.map(async (url) => {
     try {
-      await (await got).post(url, { json: payload, timeout: { request: requestTimeout } })
+      await got.post(url, { json: payload, timeout: { request: requestTimeout } })
     } catch (err) {
       logger.warn(err, 'jobs.periodic.ping')
     }
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/box/index.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/box/index.js
index 923884e35c..b858fa8d05 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/box/index.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/box/index.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ const got = require('../../got')
 const BOX_FILES_FIELDS = 'id,modified_at,name,permissions,size,type'
 const BOX_THUMBNAIL_SIZE = 256
 
-const getClient = async ({ token }) => (await got).extend({
+const getClient = async ({ token }) => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: 'https://api.box.com/2.0',
   headers: {
     authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/credentials.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/credentials.js
index 166327fdd3..75e1291ed9 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/credentials.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/credentials.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ const got = require('../got')
  */
 async function fetchKeys (url, providerName, credentialRequestParams) {
   try {
-    const { credentials } = await (await got).post(url, {
+    const { credentials } = await got.post(url, {
       json: { provider: providerName, parameters: credentialRequestParams },
     }).json()
 
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/drive/index.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/drive/index.js
index 95b4561b7e..220c8c1f63 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/drive/index.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/drive/index.js
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ const DRIVE_FILES_FIELDS = `kind,nextPageToken,incompleteSearch,files(${DRIVE_FI
 // using wildcard to get all 'drive' fields because specifying fields seems no to work for the /drives endpoint
 const SHARED_DRIVE_FIELDS = '*'
 
-const getClient = async ({ token }) => (await got).extend({
+const getClient = async ({ token }) => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: 'https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3',
   headers: {
     authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
   },
 })
 
-const getOauthClient = async () => (await got).extend({
+const getOauthClient = async () => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: 'https://oauth2.googleapis.com',
 })
 
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class Drive extends Provider {
 
   logout ({ token }) {
     return this.#withErrorHandling('provider.drive.logout.error', async () => {
-      await (await got).post('https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/revoke', {
+      await got.post('https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/revoke', {
         searchParams: { token },
         responseType: 'json',
       })
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/dropbox/index.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/dropbox/index.js
index 236bb0419c..cb633b5aef 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/dropbox/index.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/dropbox/index.js
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ function httpHeaderSafeJson (v) {
     })
 }
 
-const getClient = async ({ token }) => (await got).extend({
+const getClient = async ({ token }) => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: 'https://api.dropboxapi.com/2',
   headers: {
     authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
   },
 })
 
-const getOauthClient = async () => (await got).extend({
+const getOauthClient = async () => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: 'https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2',
 })
 
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/facebook/index.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/facebook/index.js
index 22e6367137..9d83c5e200 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/facebook/index.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/facebook/index.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const { prepareStream } = require('../../helpers/utils')
 
 const got = require('../../got')
 
-const getClient = async ({ token }) => (await got).extend({
+const getClient = async ({ token }) => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: 'https://graph.facebook.com',
   headers: {
     authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/instagram/graph/index.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/instagram/graph/index.js
index 13c52aa055..78435fdab9 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/instagram/graph/index.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/instagram/graph/index.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const { prepareStream } = require('../../../helpers/utils')
 
 const got = require('../../../got')
 
-const getClient = async ({ token }) => (await got).extend({
+const getClient = async ({ token }) => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: 'https://graph.instagram.com',
   headers: {
     authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/onedrive/index.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/onedrive/index.js
index 2d89efaf23..99c0b3c59a 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/onedrive/index.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/onedrive/index.js
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ const { prepareStream } = require('../../helpers/utils')
 
 const got = require('../../got')
 
-const getClient = async ({ token }) => (await got).extend({
+const getClient = async ({ token }) => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0',
   headers: {
     authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
   },
 })
 
-const getOauthClient = async () => (await got).extend({
+const getOauthClient = async () => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: 'https://login.live.com',
 })
 
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/unsplash/index.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/unsplash/index.js
index 77c0d5c001..6fe7c2cbec 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/unsplash/index.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/unsplash/index.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const got = require('../../got')
 
 const BASE_URL = 'https://api.unsplash.com'
 
-const getClient = async ({ token }) => (await got).extend({
+const getClient = async ({ token }) => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: BASE_URL,
   headers: {
     authorization: `Client-ID ${token}`,
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class Unsplash extends Provider {
 
       const { links: { download: url, download_location: attributionUrl } } = await getPhotoMeta(client, id)
 
-      const stream = (await got).stream.get(url, { responseType: 'json' })
+      const stream = got.stream.get(url, { responseType: 'json' })
       await prepareStream(stream)
 
       // To attribute the author of the image, we call the `download_location`
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/zoom/index.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/zoom/index.js
index 7cf2284185..4d3ed86205 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/zoom/index.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/src/server/provider/zoom/index.js
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ const BASE_URL = 'https://zoom.us/v2'
 const PAGE_SIZE = 300
 const DEAUTH_EVENT_NAME = 'app_deauthorized'
 
-const getClient = async ({ token }) => (await got).extend({
+const getClient = async ({ token }) => got.extend({
   prefixUrl: BASE_URL,
   headers: {
     authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ class Zoom extends Provider {
     return this.#withErrorHandling('provider.zoom.logout.error', async () => {
       const { key, secret } = await companion.getProviderCredentials()
 
-      const { status } = await (await got).post('https://zoom.us/oauth/revoke', {
+      const { status } = await got.post('https://zoom.us/oauth/revoke', {
         searchParams: { token },
         headers: { Authorization: getBasicAuthHeader(key, secret) },
         responseType: 'json',
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ class Zoom extends Provider {
         return { data: {}, status: 400 }
       }
 
-      await (await got).post('https://api.zoom.us/oauth/data/compliance', {
+      await got.post('https://api.zoom.us/oauth/data/compliance', {
         headers: { Authorization: getBasicAuthHeader(key, secret) },
         json: {
           client_id: key,
diff --git a/packages/@uppy/companion/test/__tests__/providers.js b/packages/@uppy/companion/test/__tests__/providers.js
index 98c472e55e..530df82961 100644
--- a/packages/@uppy/companion/test/__tests__/providers.js
+++ b/packages/@uppy/companion/test/__tests__/providers.js
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ describe('list provider files', () => {
   })
 })
 
-describe('provider file gets downloaded from', () => {
+describe.only('provider file gets downloaded from', () => {
   async function runTest (providerName) {
     const providerFixtures = fixtures.providers[providerName].expects
     const res = await request(authServer)