Hire a top 1%
Executive Assistant.
Watch them work. Pay when they do.
Live Agents trains, manages, and houses your Executive Assistant inside our Cebu HQ — and streams their desk to your dashboard, with billing that auto-pauses the moment they go idle.
Three things every other VA company can't do.
Most VA agencies stop at "we'll send you resumes." We start there — then build the office, the curriculum, and the dashboard you'd build yourself if you had ten years on the ground in Cebu.
Managed.
Your team sits at our desks, on our fiber, with our supervisors. Real attendance, real management, real accountability — not freelancers fighting their roommates for bandwidth.
- Class-A office in Cebu IT Park
- On-site managers per pod
- Biometric entry · 24/7 security
Trained.
We hire 1% of 40,000 monthly applicants — then we put them through a role-specific curriculum on our dime, on our floor, before they ever sit in your inbox or pipeline. You meet candidates who are already trained, not trainees.
- Role-specific curriculum
- Tools you actually use
- Final practical exam
See for yourself.
Every hire shows up in your dashboard. Click their tile, watch their screen live, and the meter pauses automatically the moment they're idle for 10 minutes.
- Live desktop streams
- Mouse + keystroke activity
- 1-min idle auto-pause
Stop wondering. Start watching.
One click on your hire's tile streams their screen to you. If their mouse and keyboard stop moving for more than 60 seconds, our agent pauses the billable timer. The instant they're back, it resumes.
- Live desktop streamClick any tile to watch their work in real time. No screenshots, no day-late summaries.
- 10-minute idle auto-pauseIf the mouse and keyboard stop moving for 10 minutes, the meter pauses. When the worker returns, they confirm whether the missed window should still be billed (e.g. a call or a meeting).
- Activity timelineMouse, keystrokes, and active windows by 5-minute bin. See exactly where the day went.
- Billable receiptEvery Friday: total seat hours, idle deductions, and net billable time, down to the second.
A right hand who runs the engine room.
Pre-trained on the work an Executive Assistant actually does at a venture-backed company — not just answering email. Your EA shows up ready to own the calendar, the inbox, the travel, and the chaos. Ready on your dashboard in 2 weeks.
Inbox triage & follow-ups
Sweeps your inbox at start-of-day, drafts replies in your voice, and chases stalled threads. You review a single morning digest instead of 200 unread.
Calendar mastery
Defends focus blocks, batches 1:1s, books across time zones, and reschedules without losing context. Your week looks like you planned it.
Travel & expense ops
Books flights, hotels, ground, and visas inside your policy. Reconciles receipts in QuickBooks or Expensify before the trip is over.
Meeting & board prep
Pulls agendas, briefs you on attendees, drops dossiers in your calendar invite, and captures action items the moment the call ends.
Stakeholder & vendor follow-ups
Shepherds investors, candidates, advisors, and vendors through your pipeline so nothing dies in your inbox after the meeting.
Personal logistics
Doctors, dry cleaning, gifts, dinner reservations, kids' schedules. The 30 small things a week that pull you out of deep work.
Trained on your stack — not a freelancer's.
Every Executive Assistant who reaches your shortlist has already passed practical exams in the tools below. Use a tool we don't list? They'll be onboarded on it during the first week, on us.
From intro call to a hire on your dashboard in two weeks.
Five steps. No retainers. No surprises. We replace the placement at no charge if it's not working — and your deposit is refundable if you don't make a hire.
- Step 01
Book a discovery call
Tell us which role you're hiring for and when you need them. A refundable deposit kicks off your search and is credited back to your first invoice. You pay nothing if you don't hire.
- Step 02
Get matched with pre-trained top 1%
We surface candidates from our trained bench — people who've already passed the curriculum for your role. You see five to seven shortlisted profiles within 7 days, not 7 weeks.
- Step 03
Interview your shortlist
Two video rounds, your format, your questions. We coordinate scheduling, collect feedback after each round, and run salary negotiations on your behalf.
- Step 04
They start in our Cebu office, supervised day one
Real desk, real fiber, real on-site manager. We handle equipment, HR, payroll, and compliance. They're embedded in your Slack, your tools, your standup — but managed by us.
- Step 05
Watch them work, billed only for active time
Your dashboard goes live on day one. Click any tile for the desktop stream. The meter auto-pauses after 10 minutes idle and your Friday invoice shows the net billable time — to the second.
Eight hours of operating leverage.
A real, anonymized day from one of our Cebu Executive Assistants — visible to you, second-by-second, on the transparency dashboard.
- 08:00 PHT
Inbox sweep & morning brief
Triages overnight email into Reply / FYI / Wait. Drafts six replies for your one-tap approval. Sends you the day's brief in Slack.
- 09:30 PHT
Calendar surgery
Defends your 10–12 maker block, reshuffles two conflicts, confirms three meetings, and adds dossiers to every invite for the rest of the week.
- 11:15 PHT
Q3 offsite logistics
Books flights for 14 leaders inside policy, holds two hotel blocks, drafts a packing & itinerary doc, and gets your CFO's pre-approval async.
- 13:00 PHT
Stakeholder follow-ups
Sends three investor recap notes, schedules two candidate debriefs, and chases an overdue vendor SOW with a polite-but-firm nudge.
- 15:00 PHT
Board meeting prep
Compiles last quarter's metrics deck, formats the appendix, runs a final spell-check pass, and posts the read-ahead 24 hours early.
- 16:30 PHT
Personal & EOD wrap
Books your dinner Friday, sends an anniversary gift, files three expenses, and posts an end-of-day summary in your private channel.
An office worth showing up to.
Your team isn't scattered across living rooms. They share a floor, a culture, and a manager — five days a week, in one of the best BPO cities in the world.
- Class-A office in Cebu IT ParkTwo full floors, ergonomic stations, 27-inch dual monitors, and natural light from every pod.
- On-site managers per podOne supervisor per 8 hires. They run stand-ups, QA work, and escalate issues to you in hours, not weeks.
- Redundant fiber + UPSTwo ISPs, automatic failover, and battery backup so your team stays online when their neighborhood doesn't.
- Biometric entry · 24/7 securitySensitive data stays in the building. Biometric access logs and CCTV cover every workstation.
An EA who shows up — without the agency markup.
Most companies pick between a $36/hr US Executive Assistant, a $25/hr freelancer with five other clients, or a 'VA agency' that emails you a resume and disappears. Live Agents replaces all three — billed only for the hours your EA is actually working.
| Capability | Live Agents | Freelancer | US in-house hire | Other VA agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effective hourly rate | $9.50 / hr | $15–30 / hr | $36–45 / hr | $36–50 / hr |
| Billed only when working | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Pre-trained on EA curriculum | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Live desktop stream | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Auto-pause when idle 10+ min | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| On-site supervisor included | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Replacement guarantee | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Refundable deposit if no hire | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
You pay for work.
Not for chairs.
Every Friday at 6pm PHT, your billable receipt drops in your inbox. Total seat hours, idle deductions, and net billable time — all reconciled to the second by the same agent that streams the dashboard.
Operators who stopped guessing what their team is doing.
“I've hired offshore for a decade. The dashboard is the difference. I stopped guessing whether my EA was actually working — and started getting two days a week of my life back.”
“We tried two other VA agencies before Live Agents. The training is on a different level. Our SDR was producing booked meetings in week two, not month two.”
“The idle auto-pause changed how I think about offshore hiring. I'm not paying for chairs. I'm paying for work. That's a different product.”
“Their Cebu office runs like a Manhattan finance floor. Managers, dual monitors, redundant fiber. My bookkeeper has more uptime than my own laptop.”
“I watched my new hire shadow our SOPs on her dashboard tile during her first week. By Friday I could see exactly which tickets she was crushing.”
“It's the only VA company I've ever used where I genuinely think the team is part of my team. They show up at the same desks every day. That matters.”
One rate. Billed only for active hours.
You're billed by the second for time your Executive Assistant is actually working. The 10-minute idle auto-pause is on by default — if they step away, the meter stops. No retainers, no minimums, cancel anytime with 14 days' notice.
Managed seat · billed by the hour
- Class-A desk in our Cebu HQ
- On-site supervisor per pod
- Live transparency dashboard
- 10-min idle auto-pause + weekly receipt
- All payroll, HR, equipment & compliance
- Free replacement if it isn't working
The questions every operator asks before hiring a Executive Assistant.
Don't see yours below? Bring it to the discovery call — that's exactly what it's for.
Stop running operations.
Start running the business.
Twenty minutes on a call. Five trained Executive Assistants on your shortlist within a week. A real person at a real desk on your dashboard.