Silkstaff places pre-vetted remote assistants, e-commerce operators and bookkeepers from Tbilisi, Yerevan, Kyiv and Almaty with founders in the US and EU. Three profiles with intro videos in 7 days. You pay only when the person starts.
Example of what you receive: anonymized until you book an interview. Intro video on request.
We only place roles where we run our own written tests and know what good looks like.
Google Workspace, Notion, Asana or ClickUp, HubSpot, Slack
Shopify, Amazon Seller Central, Gorgias, Klaviyo, Google Sheets
QuickBooks, Xero, A2X, Excel
A 15-minute call or a written brief: tasks, tools, hours, budget, start date. We confirm within a day whether we can fill it.
Day 1Each with a 2-minute intro video, written-test results and the exact monthly rate the candidate asked for. References for your finalists on request.
By day 7You interview the ones you like. We prepare the candidate, send the contractor agreement template and the W-8BEN, and check in on day 1.
Day 14 to 21The steps, our scorecard and one real task in full: how we vet candidates.
You do, as an independent contractor. You sign a contractor agreement directly with the candidate and pay them monthly. We send the agreement template, the W-8BEN form for US companies and a first-week checklist. We are a recruitment service, not an employer of record.
Deel contractor payments (about $49 a month) or a Wise Business transfer in USD. Both are standard for our candidates. If you prefer, the retention plan includes us administering the payouts.
EU hours fit a normal working day for our candidates. For US clients, candidates in Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan usually work an afternoon-to-evening shift (for example 2 pm to 11 pm in Tbilisi), which covers the US Eastern morning until about 2 to 3 pm. Full US-day coverage means a night shift.
Free replacement within 180 days: if the person leaves or is let go within that time, we introduce new candidates at no cost until a replacement you accept starts (one replacement per hire, provided our fee was paid on time and the role, hours and pay were not changed without the person's agreement); we replace the person, we do not refund the fee. On the retention plan, replacement is available at any time while the plan is paid.
Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia and Kazakhstan. We do not source in Russia or Belarus: US and EU companies cannot pay contractors there.
You can, and for short tasks it is often the better choice. On Upwork you screen the proposals yourself. We give you three people who passed a written test, an English voice and video check, a live interview and a setup check, in a week. If none fits, you pay nothing. Full comparison.
Silkstaff is run from Paris. We are new: we have no client reviews yet, and we would rather say so than invent them. That is why you pay nothing until your hire's first working day, and why every hire comes with a free replacement within 180 days.
No markup: you hire the person directly and see exactly what they earn. Read how we vet candidates, see how we compare with other options, or use our free EA hiring kit.
Write a few lines or send the form. We reply within one business day with a yes or a no, and a short list of questions if we need them.
hello@silkstaff.com
Silkstaff is run by an operator who has hired and managed teams across nine production workshops and now hires for founders. Based in Paris, working across US and EU time zones.