SA TALENT · PLACED IN 14 DAYS
Your next top performer is in South Africa.
Handpicked South African talent: native English, GMT+2, five stages of live vetting. Inside your workflow in 14 days. One flat fee. No retainer. Zero risk.
Local SDRs cost $5k/month and take three months to ramp. Half quit before they're useful.
Freelancer platforms are a lottery. You get ghosted, lied to, or handed someone who falls apart on their first real call.
You've heard offshore talent is the answer. But every bad offshore hire has made you question whether the savings are worth the risk. The vetting is the problem. Not the talent.
Cape Town. Johannesburg.
Where your best hires are waiting.
Native English. GMT+2 overlap with UK hours and US East Coast mornings. A work ethic built on resilience. Salaries 60–80% below London or New York — with zero drop in quality.
One call.
Every revenue role covered.
Need one SDR or a full outbound floor? We handpick from South Africa's deep talent pool — screened, tested, briefed — and place the right person directly into your team.
SDRs & BDRs
Relentless callers who book qualified meetings and don't need hand-holding. Trained on your ICP, scripts, and CRM from day one.
Email & Outreach
Campaign operators who build sequences that land in inboxes and get replies. Cold email, nurture, and reactivation — written to be read, not filtered.
PPC & SEO
Performance marketers who run Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and organic search. They care about ROAS, not just impressions.
Marketing & Content
Social media managers, content strategists, and campaign coordinators who keep your brand moving and your funnel fed.
AI & Automation
Specialists who build automations, manage AI voice agents, and integrate your tech stack. They automate the boring stuff.
CRM & RevOps
HubSpot, Salesforce, and ops talent who keep your data clean, workflows running, and reporting airtight.
We interview hundreds.
You meet the best 3–6.
Every candidate faces five stages of live screening before they reach your inbox. You only see the ones we'd hire ourselves.
Sourcing & Application Review
CVs screened for relevant experience, stability, and role fit. Most are filtered out here.
English & Communication
Live voice and written tests. Accent clarity, confidence on the phone, email writing quality.
Skills & Tool Proficiency
CRM workflows, cold-call roleplay, campaign builds, ad platform walkthroughs. Tested live.
Culture & Work-Ethic
Deep-dive on how they handle pressure, home setup, internet reliability. References checked.
Cream of the Crop
Detailed briefs on each — skills, personality, test results, and our honest recommendation. You interview and choose.
Brief us. We screen. You pick.
Shortlisted candidates in your inbox within 14 days. You pay once, when they start.
Brief us in 20 minutes
Jump on a call. We learn your ICP, your stack, your culture, and what a great hire looks like for your team.
We do the heavy lifting
Five stages of live vetting. You receive 3–6 hand-picked finalists with detailed briefs — not a stack of CVs.
You choose. You pay once.
Interview the shortlist. Pick your person. One flat fee: 70% of their first month's salary. Nothing after that.
One placement fee.
No monthly cut. Zero risk.
- No upfront retainer — pay only when someone starts
- No monthly cut of salary — the hire is yours
- 30-day replacement guarantee
- Full sourcing, screening, vetting & shortlisting
- English fluency and skills testing before you see a CV
We built the agency
we wished existed.
Send you 20+ unvetted CVs and charge you to sort through them yourself.
Five-stage live screening. You see 3–6 finalists with detailed briefs, test results, and our honest recommendation.
Charge monthly retainers or clip an ongoing percentage of every salary.
One flat placement fee — 70% of first month's salary. After that, the hire is 100% yours.
Source from databases. No live tests. Walk away the moment the CV lands.
Live cold-call roleplay, written English tests, tool walkthroughs, culture interviews, and reference checks.
If the hire quits, you're back to square one — paying full fees again.
30-day free replacement. No questions. No fees. We stand behind every placement.
Paul de Beer
Founder & DirectorI've spent the better part of a decade building outbound and revenue teams with South African talent — first for my own businesses, then for clients across the UK, US, Australia, and Europe.
I've seen first-hand how a single great SDR from Cape Town or Johannesburg can outperform three local hires at a quarter of the cost. But I've also seen what happens when you hire blindly offshore: ghosting, no-shows, and people who looked great on paper but can't hold a conversation.
That's why I built Pipeline South. Every candidate goes through the same screening process I'd use if I were hiring them for my own team.
If they don't stick, we replace them. Free.
Every Pipeline South placement comes with a 30-day free replacement guarantee. If the person we place doesn't work out — for any reason — we find you a replacement at zero extra cost. No awkward conversations. No fees. No drama.
Results from day one.
“We were sceptical about offshore talent after a bad experience on Upwork. Pipeline South sent us three candidates — we hired two. Both are still with us eight months later, outperforming our local hires by every metric that matters.”
“Paul found us a PPC manager who hit the ground running on day one. Knew HubSpot, understood our customer, confident on calls. 70% of the cost, 120% of the output. I wish I'd done this two years earlier.”
“Tried three other offshore agencies. All three sent me CVs and took a monthly cut. Pipeline South screened for two weeks and handed me a brief on four candidates. We hired the first one we interviewed. Hasn't missed a day in six months.”
Got questions?
How long does it take to get candidates?
Typically 10–14 working days from your initial brief to receiving a shortlist of 3–6 vetted candidates. For urgent roles, we can fast-track to 7 days.
What if the hire doesn't work out?
30-day free replacement guarantee. If the person we place doesn't meet your expectations, we replace them at zero additional cost.
Do you handle payroll, contracts, and HR?
We're a placement agency, not an EOR. We find and vet the talent — you hire them directly as a contractor or through your own EOR. We can recommend trusted EOR partners in South Africa.
What timezone do South African hires work in?
GMT+2 (SAST) with no daylight saving changes. Full overlap with UK business hours, and 6–7 hours of overlap with US East Coast. Many candidates are happy to shift to US hours.
What does the placement fee include?
Everything: sourcing, five-stage screening, candidate briefs with our recommendations, and the 30-day replacement guarantee. You pay nothing upfront — the fee is only due when your chosen candidate starts.
How is this different from Upwork?
On Upwork you're sifting through hundreds of profiles yourself. With Pipeline South, we do all of that with deeper vetting than any platform offers. You see only the top 3–6 out of 100+ applicants, with detailed briefs.
Can I hire multiple people at once?
Absolutely. For bulk placements we run parallel screening pipelines so you're not waiting months. The placement fee applies per hire.
What about loadshedding and internet reliability?
We screen for this specifically. Every candidate is assessed on their internet connection, power backup setup, and workspace quality. We don't place anyone who can't guarantee reliable connectivity.
Stop settling.
Start placing.
Tell us what you need. We'll come back with deeply screened, shortlisted candidates within two weeks. No retainer. No obligation.