One assistant, yours alone, four hours a day for ten working days. No contract to sign for the trial and nothing to cancel when it ends. If it works, the $500 comes off your first month.
Paid once, up front. One pilot per company.
You shouldn't have to commit to a year to find out if delegating works.
Most people who turn us down aren't saying the service is too expensive. They're saying they don't yet know what they'd hand off, and $950 a month is a lot to pay to find out.
So we made a smaller version. Two weeks with a real assistant, working on real tasks in your real systems. At the end you'll know — not from a sales call, but from having done it.
The pilot runs the same way our monthly engagements do. The only differences are the length and the price.
The first days go to setup and correction — that's true of any new hire. By the second week you should be handing off without explaining.
Tell us the three things you'd hand off first. We use them to match you with someone who has done that work before, and to judge the pilot at the end.
Meet two or three candidates on Zoom, pick one, and they begin. The first eight hours go to access, tools and context — that's normal.
Your three tasks get documented as they're done, so the SOPs exist whether or not you continue. Questions drop off sharply by the end of week one.
Week two is the part you're buying. Tasks come back finished without a walkthrough, and you can see what a month of it would be worth.
The pilot ends on its own. Nothing renews and there's nothing to cancel. If you want to keep going, tell us and we'll move you onto a monthly plan.
Choose to keep your assistant and the full pilot fee comes off your first month — part-time or full-time. Same person, same work, no restart.
Continuing means signing our standard services agreement and moving to monthly billing — month to month, 30 days' notice to stop. Going full-time depends on your assistant having the hours free, so tell us up front if that's where you're headed and we'll staff the pilot accordingly.
Two weeks costs more per hour than a month does, because a short engagement costs us more to staff. You're paying for the option to walk away.
| Two-week pilot | Part-Time | Full-Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $500 once | $950 / month | $1,600 / month |
| Hours | 4 hrs/day × 10 days | 4 hrs/day, 20 / week | 8 hrs/day, 40 / week |
| Rate | $12.50 / hr | $11.875 / hr | $10 / hr |
| Commitment | None. Ends after day 10. | Month to month | Month to month |
| Deposit | None | One month, refundable | One month, refundable |
| Changing assistants | One swap from the VA Hub, first 5 days | Any time, subject to availability | Any time, subject to availability |
| Upgrade path | Part-time or full-time, $500 credited | Move to full-time any time | — |
| Best for | Finding out whether delegating works for you | A steady set of recurring tasks | Owning a whole function |
Not a service term, no. You sign a one-page pilot order — the price, the hours, confidentiality both ways, and who owns the work. It doesn't renew and there's no notice period. After the tenth working day it's over unless you say otherwise.
Within the first five working days you can pick a different assistant yourself from the VA Hub directory — you'll see who's available, with profiles and intro videos. Your ten days restart from the new person's first day.
One swap is included, and it has to happen inside those first five days. If nobody in the Hub fits, we'll place someone within 48 hours instead.
Yes — the $500 credits the same way, so a full-time first month is $1,100 instead of $1,600. Say so when you request the pilot, though. Assistants can be booked with another client outside your four hours, and we'd rather reserve someone with the full day open than tell you later that the person you trained isn't available.
Going from four hours a day to eight also means roughly double the work queued up. Worth thinking through before month one.
For most people, yes — but be honest about the shape of it. Week one is training. Week two is the real signal. If your work is unusually complex, say so on the call and we'll talk about a 30-day pilot instead.
Inbox and calendar, CRM updates and data entry, lead follow-up, research and list building, invoicing and bookkeeping support, customer email, social scheduling, and documenting whatever you're currently keeping in your head.
What they can't do in two weeks is anything that needs weeks of licensing or industry-specific certification.
Yes. They're dedicated to you and you direct their day. We handle recruiting, contracts, payroll and replacement — you handle the work itself. Plan on 30 minutes a day in week one.
Not directly. We recruit, screen and pay them, and the pilot order includes the same non-solicit and buyout terms as our monthly agreements. If you want to bring someone in-house, there's a buyout figure — ask and we'll quote it.
Every assistant signs confidentiality and data-handling terms before day one: unique credentials, MFA where you require it, no exporting your records, and no access to payment or banking details unless you authorize it in writing. Accounts stay in your name, so you can cut access yourself at any moment.
One per company. The pilot is priced to let you try the service once, not to be a cheaper way to buy short projects.
We'll come back within one business day with candidates who've done that kind of work, and a start date.
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Send the same three tasks and we'll reply with candidate profiles.
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