Supercharge your team with
expert remote talent

Houston & Ko is a boutique freelance platform that helps organizations source and start working with freelance talent in just 7 days.

An exclusive selection of pre-vetted freelancers

Skill sets: freelance administrators, marketers, and finance experts

Flexible support that adjusts to your workload

A robust legal setup for all freelancers

Companies we helped to find on-demand remote experts for

Human resources for the new age

Operating from Zürich, we help companies across Switzerland and beyond unclog their workloads, unburden their leadership, and unfreeze their mission-critical projects by connecting them with freelance talent.

Just 7 days after providing the job requirements – about 5 times faster than the average recruitment process – you can start working with the freelance professionals your teams need to become even better at what they do best.

Frictionless talent matching

Adding business support to your team doesn’t have to be a months-long struggle. Our freelance hiring process is tailored for exceptional speed, convenience, and flexibility.

Hand-picked freelance talent

Our team of Houston & Ko specialists are proven experts hailing from 17 countries across 4 continents and speak 12 languages at a native level.

Marketing support

Administration support

Finance support

Ready to boost your team with pre-vetted freelancers?

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Built to support your business

Freelancer recruitment best practices

Only 10-15% of applicants pass our extensive pre-screening and selection process. As well as their expertise and experience, we assess freelancers’ interpersonal skills, ability to work remotely, and their legal setup

A remarkably agile experience

After we get your requirements, it usually takes 7 days to start collaborating with your remote expert. We create great matches so quickly because of our deep understanding of how freelancers and organizations collaborate.

Affordable freelance services

Everything about our pricing is designed to be business-friendly. It’s 100% transparent, always predictable, and delightfully easy to scale up or down – as your needs for our hand-picked experts evolve.

A robust and streamlined legal setup

Your commercial contract will be with us. As an established Swiss organization, we ensure a robust legal setup and make your life easier by managing all of your freelance support under a single agreement.

A fortified client success mechanism

Our founders work directly with you from the start to understand your needs and match you with the right experts. As your business grows and its needs change, we’re there to help your freelance support evolve accordingly.
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FAQs

We go beyond just connecting companies with freelancers — we focus on quality, efficiency, and tailored support. Here’s what makes us different:

  • Not just anyone:
    We’ve been pre-vetting and handpicking our freelancer team for the last five years based on skills, experience, and reliability – so you don’t have to sift through hundreds of profiles, we’ve already done it for you.
  • Industry-specific expertise:
    We support leaders and their teams at companies across key industries like tech, industrials, finance, personal development, and healthcare – with freelancers who understand sector-specific challenges.
  • Flexible engagement models:
    Whether you need interim support to cover a maternity/sick leave, support for ad-hoc projects like annual conferences, quarterly magazine or special projects or long-term on-going support, we offer flexible setups to match your needs and budget.
  • Personalized matching & support:
    Unlike self-serve marketplaces, we personally work together with you to bring the right talent on board quickly – often within 7 days.
  • Global reach, local understanding:
    We tap into a global talent pool, but also understand the importance of local nuances – including time zones, language, software and compliance.
  • Streamlined hiring & management:
    Our tools and team help simplify onboarding, contracting, payments, and performance tracking – saving you time and reducing friction.

In short, we combine the speed and scale of a platform with the personalization and reliability of an in-house recruiter.

We support a wide range of professionals across various industries and experience levels and hourly rates can vary depending where the individuals are based and the volume of work. On average, you can expect the following ranges:

  • Entry-level freelancers: CHF 30 – 40 /hour
  • Mid-level professionals: CHF 40 – 70 /hour
  • Senior or specialized experts:  CHF 70 – 100 /hour

Our remote talent experts are spread across 17 countries, on four continents, and they cover multiple time zones.

Our remote talent speaks 12 languages at a native level.

Other languages include Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin, Arabic.

Most of our clients are based in Switzerland; however, we also support organizations across other European countries, the Americas and the Middle East.

  • Education and Personal Development
  • Finance and FinTech
  • Food and Beverage
  • Healthcare and Life Sciences
  • Legal and other Professional
  • Services
  • Manufacturing
  • Nonprofit
  • Pharma and Biotech
  • Real Estate and Construction
  • Regulatory
  • Sports
  • Sustainability
  • Technology and Software
  • Tourism and Hospitality

When a role is within our core team, this is typically around 7 days. If the role is more complex or requires a niche skill-set this can often take longer.

Project durations vary depending on the scope and nature of the work, but here are some general trends:

  • Mid-term engagements: 3 – 6 months
    Typical for website development, marketing campaigns, product launches, or research projects, event organisation support, maternity leave covers for different roles.
  • Long-term or ongoing work: 6+ months
    Often used for roles like virtual assistants, ongoing content creation, bookkeepers, customer support, editorial support, visual communications, or social media managers.

Many of our clients start with a short engagement and extend based on results. We offer flexibility to scale up or down based on your evolving needs.

Our standard payment terms are 10 days from the date of invoice.

We simplify the process for you by managing payments to individual freelancers on your behalf. All freelancers on our platform are self-employed professionals, and we ensure they are paid promptly and in full, without requiring you to handle multiple individual transactions or tax paperwork.

This way, you get a single, consolidated invoice – and we take care of the rest.

We take compliance seriously to protect both our clients and the freelancers we work with. Here’s how we ensure legal and regulatory peace of mind:

  • Verified self-employment status:
    All freelancers on our platform are required to confirm and document that they are legally self-employed or operating as independent contractors in their country of residence.
  • Tax and legal declarations:
    During onboarding, freelancers must agree to our terms confirming they handle their own tax obligations, insurance, and local legal requirements.
  • Country-specific compliance checks:
    As an additional step, we perform additional checks to ensure alignment with local labor and tax regulations – particularly in jurisdictions with strict contractor rules.
  • Centralized invoicing & documentation:
    We consolidate freelancer payments and issue one invoice to you. This reduces your administrative burden and ensures transparency in how talent is paid.

By handling these legal and operational aspects, we help you work with global talent confidently – without the risk of misclassification or regulatory issues.

Every freelancer in our network goes through a thorough screening process before being considered for any client placement. This includes a structured interview, skills assessment, legal registration and reference checks. We only work with experienced professionals with a proven track record in their field – depending on requirements, this may mean minimum years of experience, relevant educational background, or experience in a specific sector or business environment, whether that’s corporates, international organisations, start-ups or agencies. By the time we present you with candidates, the hard work is already done.

Yes – flexibility is built into how we work. Whether you need to increase support during a busy period or scale back when things are quieter, we can adjust hours to match your needs. Unlike traditional hiring, there is no minimum engagement period or lengthy notice periods – you stay in control.

We stand behind our matching process, but if for any reason the fit isn’t right, we’ll find you a replacement. Within a week we’ll present you with alternative candidates, and we’ll handle all offboarding conversations and administrative steps on your behalf. Our goal is a long-term working relationship, not a one-off transaction – getting it right matters as much to us as it does to you.