Linkora Talent gives early-stage teams a managed Filipino virtual assistant for the operational work that fills a founder’s day — inbox, calendar, research, investor admin and the hundred things nobody owns yet — at the hours you actually need.
A typical VA for a founder
Where it starts
Inbox, calendar, research, investor admin
Hours
15–25 per week, growing
First day
Two to four weeks from today
Placement fee
None
Illustrative. Early-stage roles change fast, which is why yours is written down and revisited.
Every unclaimed task defaults to the person with the least spare time and the highest opportunity cost.
“I do my actual job after 7pm.”
The day goes to scheduling, inbox and things that can’t wait for a hire.
“We’re not ready for an ops hire.”
There’s twenty hours of work, not forty, and the runway maths doesn’t support the difference.
“Every new hire costs me a week.”
Because accounts, tooling, paperwork and the first-week schedule all route through me.
Start with the work that repeats and doesn’t need you to decide anything.
Illustrative — drawn from tasks we already run for early-stage teams.
A marketplace hands you a profile. A recruiter hands you a candidate. Both stop at the start date. This is what we keep doing after it.
Before anyone is proposed, the role is written down with you: the tasks, the hours, the systems, the handover points and what good looks like in the first month.
You are not sent a shortlist to sift. We propose someone we employ and already know, and you meet them before anything is signed.
Four to six weeks of structured onboarding against your systems and your protocols, with check-ins scheduled rather than hoped for, so the role beds in instead of drifting.
One named person at Linkora owns the engagement for as long as it runs. If something isn’t working, sorting it out is our job rather than another thing on your list.
Nothing happens without you agreeing to it first. There is nothing to sign to get a price.
A short form, about two minutes. Tick the tasks that keep landing on you. No call needed to get started.
Within two business days you get a written role outline and an indicative price for a role like yours. Nothing to sign, no placement fee.
We propose someone from our own team, with the reasons we picked them. You meet them, and you decide.
Four to six weeks of structured onboarding, then ongoing check-ins and a named contact for as long as the role runs.
Early-stage roles grow fast, which is exactly why the edges are worth writing down on day one.
They execute a defined role. Strategy, product calls and hiring decisions stay with you.
No payment authority and no bank access. They prepare; you release.
Investor, customer and press communication goes out in your name and with your approval.
Administrative and operational scope. Not engineering, not design, not product.
Your tools, accounts you own, least privilege, revoked on exit.
The role is built to carry you to the point where a full-time hire makes sense, and to hand over cleanly when it does.
That’s a normal shape for an early-stage role. Say it up front and we’ll scope it that way rather than both of us pretending otherwise.
Yes, and it should. What we ask is that changes come through us rather than accumulating quietly — that’s how a fifteen-hour role becomes forty hours of unhappiness on both sides.
Substantially. There’s a two to three hour offset from AEST, and we scope the overlap deliberately as part of the role — including which hours genuinely need to be live and which don’t.
It’s scoped to the role, so we quote once we understand it. Two minutes on the form gets you an indicative figure within two business days, and there’s no placement fee.
The VA hands over. That’s a good outcome rather than a failed one, and it’s far easier when the role was written down at the start.
The execution around it — lists, scheduling, formatting, reporting, chasing. Not the strategy, the positioning or the copy that goes out in the company’s voice unsupervised.
60-second role check
Five questions. No email needed to see the result.
Question 1 of 5
Pick the closest. Roles often combine more than one.
Question 2 of 5
A guess is fine — working this out is part of scoping.
Question 3 of 5
No wrong answer — it tells us what to avoid repeating.
Question 4 of 5
The bit you'd pay to never do again.
Question 5 of 5
This only changes what we send you next.
Based on your answers
You've used a freelancer marketplace
Then you already know where the effort lands: you screen the profiles, you write the training, you manage the work, and you start again if they leave. The tasks get done; the management never leaves your desk. A managed engagement moves that part to us.
You've used a recruitment agency
An agency's job finishes on the start date. Ours starts there. Onboarding, coaching against a written brief and cover when things change are the parts a placement fee doesn't buy — and a replacement usually means paying it again.
You've tried a local part-time hire
Usually it's not the person, it's the maths: not enough hours to justify the cost, and reception or the office manager absorbs the overflow anyway. A scoped role gives you the hours you actually need without the local overhead.
This would be your first time
Most of our clients hadn't used a VA before either. You don't need a tidy list or a process manual — we write the role brief with you, and you approve it before anyone starts.
What Linkora handles
We propose a VA from our own team whose experience fits your brief. You meet them before anything is signed, and if the fit isn't right we keep looking. No placement fee either way.
Access, tools, security basics and written expectations, structured across the first four to six weeks with Linkora running it — not improvised by you in the gaps.
You set the priorities and make the decisions; your VA owns the agreed tasks. Regular check-ins and coaching sit with us, so you're not running the arrangement alone.
Cover is arranged with you before anything changes, and if the fit stops working we propose a replacement from our team and manage the handover.
You'll have an indicative price within two business days, and typically two to four weeks from here to a first day.
That's comfortable — scoping and matching usually take two to four weeks, so there's room to get the brief right.
No commitment needed. An indicative price and a draft role brief are useful even if the answer turns out to be later.
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