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.
vs. local Canadian hire
Built on the same stack our clients ship on
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, behavioral interview, and reference check. You see real work before commitment — not a polished CV.
Tech & IT · Marketing & Sales · Creatives · Finance & Operations. 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.
Three steps. Specific scope. No surprises after signature.
Borrowed buyer language: here’s where each substitute breaks, and how Obelisk is structurally different.
“23 freelancers, $50K, three ghosted mid-project, and we had to hire someone to fix the work.”
— 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.
$20–30K placement fee, then they disappear. HR, payroll, onboarding still on your plate.
— Recurring buyer pattern, customer-research.md
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.
— Recurring buyer pattern, customer-research.md
What Obelisk does instead
Sourcing + vetting + EOR + management. Single Canadian B2B contract. One throat to choke.
Published rates by seniority. No placement fee, no percentage markup, no hourly billing. Sourcing, vetting, HR, payroll, and ongoing management included.
Toronto Senior Eng Salary
Cairo–Eastern Daily Overlap
Cost vs. Local Hire
Brief → Onboarded
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.
See if we fit🏢 Agency 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.
See if we fit⚙️ Marketing & 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.
See if we fitMost “offshore” buyers land in India or Manila and lose a working day to the time-zone offset. Our talent 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.
We ship case studies when we have them. Until then, here's what credibility looks like by demonstration.
We’re pre-first-client on purpose. This card fills with named Canadian SMB testimonials — role, company, outcome quote, hard numbers — the day client #1 signs. Until then, you get our vetting process, our pricing in writing, and a 15-minute call with the founder. Be the first case study.
PwC, Capgemini, and Vodafone hire technical talent at enterprise scale across Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. The category works. We’re the version with a Canadian contract.
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 talent costs roughly 30–50% less for comparable seniority and 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 2–4 weeks. If you need someone Monday, we’ll say so on the call.
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.
Book your 15-min callP.S. Not ready for a call? Send the role to ali@obelisktalent.ca and you'll get 2–3 vetted profiles back within 72 hours, no strings.