Revenue went up. The back office didn't keep up. Sound familiar?
Copy-paste between systems, manual data entry, the same email 40 times a day. Your best people are stuck on $15/hr tasks while you pay them like the pros they are.
Key processes live in someone's head. Handoffs drop. Nothing's documented. One person quits and you lose a month cleaning up the mess.
Everyone's talking about it. You don't have time to test 50 tools, and the last "AI guy" sold you nothing. Meanwhile your competitors are quietly compounding.
WHO YOU'RE ACTUALLY GETTING
A bad overseas hire costs you months. We source differently, and we vet hard, so you get a teammate, not a gamble.
We've built a deep, pre-vetted pipeline across LATAM. Top-tier talent, in your time zone, at a fraction of US cost.
They work your hours and join your calls. No 12-hour lag, no language wall, no "sorry, can you repeat that."
Every candidate is tested against actual automation and build tasks before you ever meet them. You see proof, not buzzwords.
They show up in your Slack, your tools, your standups. You hire them directly. They're yours, not rented from us.
NOW PICTURE THIS
That's not a someday fantasy. That's what happens when one specialist owns AI inside your business. The only question is when you start.
Here's the all-in cost, side by side with what the same hire runs you in-house.
THE IN-HOUSE US ROUTE
A US AI specialist runs $120K to $180K a year loaded, plus recruiting fees, benefits, and months of ramp time. If you can even get one to join a small business.
THE CLEVER ANIMAL ROUTE
One flat placement fee — $3,500 for an Operator, $6,000 for an Engineer — paid once. You pay the specialist's salary directly at LATAM market rates, typically $80K–$120K/year for an Operator. After placement, no ongoing agency fees, ever.
Most owners land at roughly half the in-house cost in year one, with someone on their team in three weeks instead of three months — and savings only compound after that.
We'd rather tell you the truth than take a deposit we can't deliver on. Here's who this works for, and who it doesn't.
If you're in the left column, you're exactly who we built this for.
You don't. Here's your actual involvement from day one. Total time to get started: about an hour.
You tell us the bottleneck and what good looks like. That's the heavy lifting on your end, done.
Our team does the work. You do nothing until we hand you a shortlist of 3 to 5 vetted finalists.
Our optional Account Manager runs onboarding and delegation, so you stay hands-off while they ramp.
Your specialist ships their first money-making automation. This is where the time and cash start coming back.
No. You're hiring a real, vetted specialist who owns the outcome, sourced exclusively from our deep Latin America talent pipeline. They build the systems, run them, and improve them. A tool sits there. A person delivers.
This hire gives you time back, they don't take it. Your total involvement to get started is about an hour. Our optional Account Manager handles onboarding so you're hands-off while they ramp.
Every candidate is vetted against real AI tasks before you meet them. You interview and choose. And you're covered by a 6-month replacement guarantee at no extra cost.
Fair question. Sourcing and vetting real talent costs us real time, so the deposit puts our team to work and shows you're serious. We set your must-have requirements with you up front, so the bar is yours, not ours. If we can't hit it, you get every dollar back. If we deliver candidates who meet what we agreed and you pass, it covers the search. When you hire, the $500 applies to your flat placement fee — $3,500 for an Operator, $6,000 for an Engineer.
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDERS
We're not a faceless agency with ten thousand placements behind us. We're building Clever Animal deliberately, hand-selecting our first group of owners so that every single placement is one we'd put our name on.
That means founder-level attention on your search, candidates we'd hire ourselves, and early-client pricing that won't be here once we scale. You're not a ticket number. You're a founding client, and we treat that seriously.
The Clever Animal founding team
Co-CEOs, Clever Animal
Here's exactly how the deposit works, no surprises. We agree on your must-have requirements together, up front. If we can't find someone who meets that bar, your $500 comes back in full. If we deliver candidates who meet what we agreed and you choose not to move forward, it covers the real cost of the search we ran. When you hire, the $500 applies straight to your flat placement fee — $3,500 for an Operator, $6,000 for an Engineer. The bar is set with you, not by us.
We set your must-have requirements together first. Can't meet them? Full refund. If we deliver candidates who meet what we agreed and you don't move forward, it covers our search. When you hire, the $500 applies to your flat placement fee. Secure checkout via Stripe.
If you've got questions the page didn't answer, or you want to talk through your situation before putting down a deposit, that's exactly what the call is for. No pressure, no pitch you didn't ask for.