Pre-vetted, full-time dedicated Middle Eastern professionals — embedded in your team on a Cairo afternoon shift, with 6–7 hours of real-time overlap with Canadian Eastern. One Canadian B2B contract. We handle HR, payroll & management.
15 minutes, no pitch deck — just the role, the rate, and who we’d vet first.
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Tools we work in:
Six structural differences. Not adjectives — mechanisms.
One client. Full-time. Not a freelancer juggling five accounts. This is the structural difference behind every other one below.
Talent runs a shifted afternoon-evening Cairo schedule. Result: 6–7 hours of real-time overlap with Canadian Eastern — your morning standup, their afternoon. Not a 24-hour response loop.
Identity, employment history, and assessment integrity verified on our infrastructure before any candidate reaches your shortlist. Most “offshore” vendors don’t even claim this. We built it.
Every shortlist candidate clears CV review, a role-scoped technical or craft assessment, behavioural interview, and reference check. You see real work before commitment — not a polished CV.
Tech & IT, Marketing & Sales, Creatives, and Finance & Ops. Add roles as you scale. Same Canadian B2B contract, same flat rate.
HR, payroll, contracts, compliance, ongoing support — all on our side. You manage the work. We manage everything else.
The 10-day path
Three steps. Specific scope. No surprises after signature.
Scope, role & budget aligned in one 15-minute call.
2–3 pre-vetted candidates, with profiles & assessment notes.
Canadian B2B contract signed, kickoff on Day 10.
Here’s where each substitute breaks, and how Obelisk is structurally different.
“I hired 23 developers on Upwork and spent $50K+. Fees hit 20%, quality was unpredictable, 3 freelancers ghosted mid-project.”
— Boundev, “Upwork Review (2026)”
What Obelisk does instead
One person. Full-time. Embedded only on your team. Pre-vetted with a paid trial task before placement. Replacement guarantee in the first 30 days.
$16–33K placement fee, then they disappear. HR, payroll, onboarding still on your plate.
— How the standard 20–25% contingency model works
What Obelisk does instead
Flat monthly retainer — no placement fee. We don’t disappear: ongoing HR, payroll, account management, replacement on request.
Payroll and compliance handled — but you still have to source and vet. The hard part.
— What an EOR platform is scoped to do
What Obelisk does instead
Sourcing + vetting + HR, payroll & management. Single Canadian B2B contract. One throat to choke.
Transparent pricing in CAD
Published rates by seniority. No placement fee, no percentage markup, no hourly billing. Sourcing, vetting, HR, payroll, and ongoing management included.
Every tier includes the 30-day replacement guarantee.
10–200 employees. Canadian, UK, or US. Open role >30 days, recently funded, or burned offshore once already.
You raised in the last six months and have engineering roles open >30 days. Toronto comp is up, your local funnel is dry, and you can’t justify another quarter on this. You’ve probably tried offshore. This isn’t that.
Book a Discovery CallAgency Owner10–25 person digital shop. Client demand is up, local senior designers and engineers cost $90K+, and your margin is being eaten alive. You need specialists in Canadian hours, not generalists at agency rates.
Book a Discovery CallMarketing & Ops LeaderYou’re forcing one generalist to cover paid + content + CRM + analytics — and the work shows. You can hire one specialist per discipline, embedded full-time, for the cost of one local generalist.
Book a Discovery CallMost “offshore” buyers land in India or Manila and lose a working day to the time-zone offset. Talent we place runs a shifted Cairo afternoon-evening schedule.
They’re in your morning standup. They handle async deep work in the late Cairo afternoon. You ship the same day.
UK clients: ~2h offset, no schedule shift required.
Direct answers. No hedging.
Most “offshore” attempts fail because the model is gig-based and multi-client — talent juggles five accounts, no embedding, no continuity, no skin in the game. Our model is one client, full-time, embedded. Talent is pre-vetted on our anti-fraud infrastructure, runs a paid trial task before placement, and stays on your team end-to-end. If a hire isn’t working in the first 30 days, we replace at no additional cost.
Time-zone fit. With talent on a shifted afternoon-evening Cairo schedule, you get 6–7 hours of real-time overlap with Canadian Eastern — your morning standup, their afternoon. India and SEA leave you with a 24-hour response loop. LATAM works on overlap; Middle Eastern salary bands sit well below LATAM and Eastern Europe for comparable seniority, and the talent works at enterprise scale (PwC, Capgemini, Vodafone all hire there). UK clients: ~2-hour offset, no schedule shift required.
Flat monthly rate in CAD per placement: $1,500–$2,000 (Junior), $2,500–$3,500 (Mid), $3,500–$5,000 (Senior), $5,000–$6,500 (Lead). Includes sourcing, vetting, onboarding, payroll, HR compliance, and ongoing account management. No placement fee, no percentage markup, no hourly billing, no kickers. One Canadian B2B contract; one CAD invoice. 30-day replacement guarantee included.
10 days from brief to onboarded for typical roles. 15-minute discovery call, written brief same day, 2–3 pre-vetted candidates within a week, contract signed and Day-1 by Day 10. Specialist or rare-stack roles can take longer. If you need someone Monday, we’ll say so on the call.
Obelisk does, not you. We engage and pay the professional directly, and we handle HR, payroll & management — contracts, compliance, and ongoing support. Your team gets a full-time, embedded teammate; your finance team gets one Canadian B2B invoice in CAD. No foreign-entity setup, no contractor agreements, no payroll admin on your side.
An EOR only runs payroll for talent you've already found and vetted yourself. We do the whole job: sourcing, multi-stage vetting, a paid trial task, onboarding, payroll, HR, and ongoing management — under one contract. A recruiter finds someone and disappears; a marketplace leaves you managing gig workers. We stay accountable for the placement for as long as they're on your team.
Tell us the role. We'll tell you what's possible — what it would cost in Toronto vs. embedded with us, who we'd vet first, and how fast we could realistically fill it. No deck. No follow-up cadence. One direct call with a co-founder.
No client logos yet, and we’re not going to borrow anyone’s. What you can check today is our vetting process, our rates in writing, and fifteen minutes with a co-founder.— Ali Maher & Lamis Youssef, Co-Founders
Book a Discovery CallP.S. Not ready for a call? Send the role to admin@obelisktalent.ca and you'll get a shortlist of 2–3 pre-vetted candidates within a week, no strings.