Vetted · English-fluent · 4–7 hrs US overlap · paid securely

Talent that stays rooted · Work that travels the world

Hire Palestine’s best-kept talent secret.

Vetted, English-fluent professionals — developers, designers, marketers, and assistants — working 4 to 7 hours inside your US day, at a fraction of the cost of a Western agency. Every profile carries a name, a rate, and a portfolio.

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127 vetted professionals · avg 6 yrs experience · GMT+2/+3 · trusted by 40+ US teams

Layla — Senior Product Designer, Ramallah

Teams in the US, EU, and the Gulf hire here

127
vetted professionals
6 yrs
average experience
GMT+2/+3
4–7 hrs US overlap
40+
US teams hiring here

How it works

From a one-line role to a hire, in four honest steps.

01

Tell us the role

Send us the job in a sentence or a spec — "React developer, 20 hrs/week, must overlap US Eastern." No account, no credit card. A real person reads it, not a form-bot. You hear back the same business day with a shortlist plan.

02

Meet vetted matches in 48 hours

We hand you two or three people who already cleared our four-step vetting — English, skills test, portfolio and reference check, and a paid trial task. You interview them directly. You see their real work, their rate, and their exact hours of overlap with your team.

03

Run a paid trial

Start with a small paid task or a one-week trial before you commit to anything ongoing. You judge the work, not a promise. If the fit is wrong, we swap the person at no cost and no awkward conversation.

04

Hire and onboard

Agree on hours and rate, sign a plain-English contract, and start. We handle secure payment, invoicing, and time tracking. You manage the work the same way you'd manage anyone on your team — Slack, standups, whatever you already use.

What you can hire

Six disciplines. Senior people. Work you can click through.

Software Developers

from $21/hr

Full-stack, front-end, back-end, and mobile engineers who ship. React, Node, Python, Laravel, React Native, and more — with public repos and live products you can click through. Senior people, not bootcamp resellers. Starting around $21/hr, all in.

Designers

from $17/hr

Product, UI/UX, and brand designers with Figma files and shipped interfaces you can inspect. They think in flows and systems, not just pretty screens, and they write clear rationale for every decision. Starting around $17/hr, all in.

Digital Marketers

from $16/hr

Performance and content marketers who run paid media, SEO, email, and lifecycle campaigns — and report on the numbers, not the vibes. Fluent in Meta, Google, Klaviyo, and analytics. Starting around $16/hr, all in.

Virtual Assistants

from $9/hr

Executive and operations assistants who own your inbox, calendar, travel, research, and CRM. Organized, discreet, and fluent in English — the kind of support that gives you back ten hours a week. Starting around $9/hr, all in.

Data Entry & Research

from $7/hr

Careful, fast operators for list-building, CRM cleanup, lead research, migrations, and repetitive back-office work you keep putting off. Accuracy checked, deadlines held. Starting around $7/hr, all in.

Customer Support

from $10/hr

Email, chat, and ticket agents who write in clear, warm English and learn your product cold. They cover the hours your US team is asleep, so your customers never wait overnight. Starting around $10/hr, all in.

The roster

Real people, real rates, real work.

Every profile is a named professional who cleared our vetting. Filter by discipline, see their overlap with your day, and start a conversation.

Our vetted roster is launching soon.

We’re personally vetting our first cohort of Palestinian talent, from the West Bank to Gaza. Be among the first to be listed — or tell us who you need to hire and we’ll match you.

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The vetting rail

A four-step gauntlet.

You meet the people who cleared the bar, not the people who applied.

11%of applicants make it onto the platform
  1. 1

    English assessment

    A live conversation and written test. Talent must be able to run a standup, write a clear Slack update, and explain a tradeoff — not just pass a grammar quiz.

  2. 2

    Skills test

    A hands-on, role-specific challenge graded by a senior practitioner. Developers write code, designers solve a real brief, marketers read a real account.

  3. 3

    Portfolio & reference check

    We click through shipped work and call former clients and managers. Claims without evidence do not make it past this step.

  4. 4

    Paid trial task

    A short, paid piece of real work that proves reliability and communication under normal conditions — the closest thing to working together before you commit.

Honest numbers

Half the cost. Not a discount on quality.

The rate reflects the cost of living in Ramallah versus San Francisco — not a compromise on the work.

HirePalestinianUS agencyFreelance marketplace
Senior developer$16–24/hr$100–150/hr$15–90/hr
Designer$13–20/hr$85–130/hr$20–80/hr
Digital marketer$12–20/hr$75–120/hr$18–70/hr
Virtual assistant$6–10/hr$35–60/hr$8–40/hr
Vetted before you meet themAlwaysSometimesRarely
Overlaps your US workday4–7 hrsVariesRoll the dice
01

A four-step gauntlet, and 1 in 9 gets through

Every professional passes an English assessment, a hands-on skills test, a portfolio and reference check, and a paid trial task before they ever reach you. Roughly 11% of applicants make it onto the platform. You meet the people who cleared the bar, not the people who applied.

02

Real overlap with your workday

Talent sits in GMT+2/+3, which means 4 to 7 hours of genuine overlap with US time zones and a full working day with Europe and the Gulf. You get standups, same-day replies, and async that actually moves — not a handoff to the other side of the planet.

03

A fraction of US agency rates

A senior developer runs about $21/hr all in here versus $80–150 through a Western agency. That's not a discount on quality — it's the cost of living in Ramallah versus San Francisco. You pay for the work, not the overhead, the rent, or the account manager's markup.

04

Every hire funds a household, not a charity

Unemployment among skilled young Palestinians is brutally high, and the talent is real and underused. When you hire here, you're paying a fair market wage for excellent work that happens to also keep a family stable and rooted at home. It's a good business decision first. The rest follows.

Every hire funds a household, not a charity.

It’s a good business decision first — a fair market wage for excellent work that also keeps a family stable and rooted at home. The rest follows.

Voices

From both sides of the hire.

“I work with a Boston startup every morning before their team is even fully awake. Same standups, same Slack, same code review. The only difference is my commute is to the next room and my rate makes sense for where I live.”
Layla Barghouthi
Frontend Developer · Ramallah
“For years the good work was there but the clients weren't reachable. Now I ship for two US products full-time. My family is stable, I stayed in my city, and nobody is doing me a favor — they hired an engineer.”
Mohammed Al-Najjar
Full-Stack Developer · Nablus
“I run six-figure ad budgets for a US e-commerce brand and report the numbers every Monday. They kept me because the ROAS is good, which is exactly how it should be.”
Salma Khalil
Digital Marketer · Bethlehem
“We hired two backend engineers here after a three-year search for people who could actually own systems. They overlap our whole morning, the code is clean, and we're paying roughly half what our last agency charged for worse.”
Daniel Reyes
Head of Engineering, US SaaS company
“My VA gave me back at least ten hours a week, and the marketer we added grew email revenue 40% in a quarter. I stopped thinking of this as offshore — it's just my team.”
Erin Whitfield
Founder, DTC brand

For talent

We build for clients who value the work.

Fair pay, real clients, and work from home. If you’re a senior developer, designer, marketer, or assistant in Palestine, bring your best work — roughly 11% make it through, and the ones who do build for teams around the world.

  • → Paid in full, on time, through the platform
  • → Work with US, EU, and Gulf teams from home
  • → Keep your rate — no race to the bottom

Fair pay, real clients, work from home. Roughly 11% of applicants make it through — bring your best work.

Transparent pricing

One number. No surprises.

One all-in hourly rate, agreed before anyone starts — no per-seat licenses, no minimums, no surprise line items. Your contractor logs hours as they work, you approve them week by week, and we bill only what you approved, every two weeks. There is no charge to post a role, interview candidates, or run a paid trial task — you only pay once someone is actually working for you. Payments run securely through the platform, with escrow on project work, so your money is protected and your contractor is paid reliably and on time. Everything — messages, approved hours, invoices — lives in one workspace you both log into, so there is never a question about what was done or what is owed. Cancel anytime with no penalty; if a hire is not working out in the first two weeks, we will re-match you at no cost.

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Questions

Straight answers.

Because you see the proof before you pay. Every professional on the platform cleared a four-step vetting process — English assessment, skills test, portfolio and reference check, and a paid trial task — and only about 11% of applicants get through. You interview candidates yourself, click through their real shipped work, and run your own paid trial before committing. The rate is low because of local cost of living, not because the work is. One number covers the professional's pay and our fee — nothing is added later.

Start with one hire

Start with one hire.

Send us the role in a sentence. A real person reads it and comes back the same business day with two or three vetted matches. No account, no credit card, no charge until someone’s working for you.

Or apply as talent — join the roster →

No account, no credit card. You only pay once someone is working for you.