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FOR CANADIAN COMPANIES

Pre-Vetted Middle Eastern Talent on One Canadian Contract.

Obelisk Talent is a managed talent partner built for Canadian SMBs whose local hiring is too slow, too expensive, or both. We source, vet, place, and manage pre-vetted, full-time Middle Eastern professionals across four disciplines under one Canadian B2B contract — Tech & IT, Marketing & Sales, Creatives, and Finance & Ops — invoiced flat in CAD with HR, payroll, and compliance handled on our side.

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THE FOUR PILLARS

What a Canadian SMB actually gets.

Every Obelisk engagement compresses to four guarantees. The rest of the page is just detail.

One predictable CAD retainer, measured against a local hire

A Toronto senior developer earns $100–160K in base salary (Job Bank, NOC 21232, Toronto Region, 2023–2024 wages (updated November 19, 2025)). With about 20% in benefits and payroll costs and a one-time $20–40K recruiter fee, year one comes to about $140–230K (our estimate). An Obelisk Senior tier engagement runs $42–60K CAD per year all-in, including HR, payroll, and management. The same retainer model holds across every discipline: engineering, marketing, customer service, finance.

Pre-vetted, full-time, embedded only on your team

Every placement clears the four-stage Obelisk Vetting Process — CV review, role-scoped craft assessment, behavioural interview with a co-founder, and AI-assisted scoring plus reference calls. Once placed, the talent is dedicated to one client. No multi-clienting, no rotation, no fractional attention.

Typically about 10 days, brief to onboarded

A 15-minute discovery call generates a written brief the same day. One or two pre-vetted candidates typically land within a week, and Day-1 typically comes about 10 calendar days after the brief. Specialist or rare-stack roles can take longer; we flag that on the discovery call rather than after.

One Canadian B2B contract, in CAD, fully managed

Obelisk Talent Inc. is federally incorporated under the CBCA, with its registered office in Nova Scotia. You sign one Canadian contract under Canadian law, receive CAD invoices from a Canadian entity, and never deal with international payroll, contractor classification, or currency conversion. Our side handles HR, payroll, compliance, equipment, and account management.

WHAT YOU CAN HIRE

One contract, every discipline.

Each engagement links to its full service page with FAQ, pricing model, and the matching role pages.

TECH & IT

Hire Remote Developers

Flat $1,500–$6,500 CAD/month per developer, all-in, with no recruiter fee

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MARKETING & SALES

Hire Remote Marketers

Flat $1,500–$5,000 CAD/month per marketer, all-in, with no recruiter fee

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FINANCE & OPS

Hire Remote Customer Service

Flat $1,500–$5,000 CAD/month per agent, all-in, with no recruiter fee

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FINANCE & OPS

Hire Remote Finance & Operations

Flat $1,500–$5,000 CAD/month per finance hire, all-in, with no recruiter fee

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RPO · MANAGED HIRING

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

Single B2B Canadian contract covers source-to-hire and beyond — we handle HR, payroll & management

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WHO OBELISK IS BUILT FOR

Three SMB profiles.

We designed the model around these patterns. If your company looks roughly like one of them, the math usually works.

SaaS Founder / CTO

The Scaling CTO

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.

Agency Owner

The Agency Owner

10–25 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.

Marketing & Ops Leader

The Specialist Hirer

You’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.

How it works

Four steps, typically about ten days.

Discovery call (15 minutes) → written brief same day → sourcing & vetting (5–7 days) → 1–2 pre-vetted candidate shortlist with assessment notes → your interviews → contract signed → Day-1 onboarding. Brief to onboarded typically takes about 10 days.

See the full four-step process

QUESTIONS, ANSWERED

What buyers ask before signing.

If your question isn't here, /faq has the full hub — or every first call is with a co-founder.

How is Obelisk different from a freelancer marketplace, an EOR, or a local recruiter?

Marketplaces give you CVs and leave the vetting to you. EORs handle compliance for talent you have already sourced. Local recruiters charge a 20–25% placement fee and disappear after Day 1. Obelisk combines all three under one flat monthly retainer — sourcing, vetting, placement, HR, payroll, and ongoing management.

What size and stage of company does Obelisk work with?

Canadian SMBs with roughly 10–200 employees — companies past founder-only delivery but without a large internal talent acquisition team. The model is built for scale-ups (Series A through B), agencies (10–25 people), and operating SMBs ($1–10M revenue) running lean ops without a Head of People.

Can we start with one role and add more later?

Yes. Start with one role and add more as you need them under the same agreement. Each placement runs on its own monthly tier rate; the contract structure does not change.

What happens if a hire does not work out?

Within the first 30 days, we replace the hire at no additional cost — the monthly fee pauses between starts. After 30 days, we still replace on request as part of the ongoing service. Replacement covers fit and performance issues raised in writing during the 30-day window.

How does this work legally for a Canadian company?

You sign one Canadian B2B Master Services Agreement under Nova Scotia jurisdiction with Obelisk Talent Inc., a federally incorporated CBCA corporation. The professional is engaged and paid by Obelisk, and we handle HR, payroll & management — you never carry the international working relationship. Per §08 of our Terms, all work product is assigned to your company on full payment.

Why Middle Eastern talent rather than Eastern European, LATAM, or Indian?

Time zone, English fluency, and cost-to-quality ratio. Middle Eastern professionals on a shifted afternoon schedule overlap Canadian Eastern by 6–7 working hours daily — better than India or Southeast Asia, on par with LATAM. Salary bands sit well below Eastern Europe's for comparable seniority. English fluency is the working default, not an upgrade.

See the full FAQ hub

Bring a Role. We’ll Bring a Shortlist.

15-minute call, written brief same day, shortlist within a week. If none of the candidates are right, we go again — no cost.

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