cost of one seat
A $60,000 seat,
rebuilt for
$18,000.
Guia staffs Philippine-based engineers and operators — developers, technical VAs and admin professionals who keep your hours and report into your team. Same scope of work, 70% off payroll. Set the numbers — the ledger runs live.
- Onboarding
- 15–20 business days
- Commitment
- Month to month
- Overlap
- Your working day
Kept, per year
$42,000
$3,500 a month back in the business.
70%
Off payroll
Guia rate held at $18,000 average per seat per year. Local figures are fully loaded salary, before benefits, desk and recruitment fees.
services
Engineering
& operations
Two benches on one contract. Engineers who ship against your board, and operators who run the systems around the build. Hire from either, or both, at the same rate structure.
Engineering support
Remote engineers for frontend, backend, integrations and cloud. They join your standups, work your tickets and report into your lead — without the hiring overhead of a local req.
Tech virtual assistance
Operators who know modern tooling: the CRM, the board, the docs, the inbox. They hold the day-to-day so your engineers stay on the build.
Specialised services
Narrow skills, hired for a phase rather than a headcount plan: test coverage, automation, interface work, data hygiene.
the standard
Four things we hold to
A cheaper seat is only worth it if the work lands. These are the terms we run every placement against.
01
Matched on the work
We shortlist against your actual workflows, not keyword overlap. You interview, you choose, you hold final say.
02
On your clock
Placements commit to your working day, PST through CET. Standups, not overnight handoffs.
03
Paperwork on us
Contracts, local compliance, payroll and HR sit with Guia. You get one invoice and a person who shows up.
04
No lock-in
Month to month. Scale up a seat, pause one, or replace a fit that isn't working — without a renegotiation.
process
Call to
seat filled
Four steps, roughly three weeks. Nothing you have to manage in between.
Strategy call
Thirty minutes on what your team actually spends its hours on, and which of those hours belong in a remote seat. You leave with a number, whether or not you hire us.
Talent matching
We handpick from our pool of pre-vetted Filipino professionals and send you a short slate — skills, experience, and how they'd sit in your team. You interview whoever you want.
Onboarding
Most clients finalise a selection and start onboarding inside 15–20 business days. Contracts, equipment checks, compliance and payroll are handled on our side.
Ongoing support
Regular check-ins with you and with them, cover when someone is out, and a replacement slate if the fit turns out wrong. Escalations come to us, not to your ops lead.
sectors
What we staff, where
Six sectors we place into most weeks. If yours isn't listed, the call is still worth thirty minutes.
- E‑commerce & retail
- Customer support, order processing, returns, inventory and listing upkeep
- Real estate
- Property management admin, lead follow-up, listing coordination, tenant comms
- Healthcare & medical
- Medical billing, patient scheduling, records and insurance follow-through
- Legal services
- Legal research, document preparation, case file management, intake
- Accounting & finance
- Bookkeeping, reconciliations, AP/AR, month-end reporting support
- Technology & SaaS
- Engineering seats, QA and release support, technical support, internal tooling
- Marketing agencies
- Content production, social scheduling, campaign coordination, reporting
on record
“The team boosted our email engagement to 20% and click-through from flat to 5–7%. They run it now — I look at the numbers on Mondays.”
- Sector
- Marketing agency
- Scope
- Email & lifecycle marketing
questions
Asked before the call
The four numbers most teams want confirmed before they book: cost, timeline, terms and hours.
Guia seats run around $18,000 a year, fully loaded — one invoice covering the placement, payroll, local compliance and HR. Against a $60,000 local salary that is roughly 70% off the payroll line, before you count benefits, desk and recruitment fees.
next step
Thirty minutes,
one number.
Bring the roles you’re thinking about and your current salary line. You’ll leave the call knowing what the same work costs through Guia — and what it would take to start.
Book a strategy call- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 9:00–18:00 PST
- Base
- Fully remote — talent pool in the Philippines
- Terms
- Month to month, no placement fee