Top talent. Great value. One monthly invoice.
No placement fees. You only pay for month one if it’s a fit.
We screen, manage and employ your whole team. Payroll, tax, cover and quality included.
Colombo, Sri Lanka
An island of 22 million people with a large, highly qualified workforce across a wide range of domains, where English is an official language and proficiency ranks well above the global average.
With talent costs significantly lower than hiring locally, Sri Lanka is the top choice for global teams looking for exceptional people.
Why Naut Space
We recruit beyond skill. Good companies find good talent. Great companies find talent that belongs.
Ilmah
Executive Assistant
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Social Media Manager
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Full-Stack Developer
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Above market
We pay above market to attract and retain the kind of talent that takes initiative, solves problems and helps accelerate your business.
Local and European
Our Sri Lankan founder brings a deep local network and knows how to find the strongest candidates. Our European founder knows what it takes to find the right fit for your team.
Continuous
We give our team the training, tools and knowledge-sharing to do their jobs better: using AI effectively, learning from colleagues in other disciplines.
Our process
Each hire is tailored to your specific business needs.
Finding the right person takes time. Replacing the wrong one takes longer.
Week 1
First, we listen. In a 30-minute conversation we learn your business, the role, and what you need from the person joining your team.
Week 2
We search our local network and the leading job platforms, then test for experience, English and the specific skills your role requires.
Week 3
The founders interview every finalist themselves, for attitude, judgement and fit. This is where we decide who is genuinely right for your team.
Week 4
One to three vetted candidates, with the assessments behind them. Meet them yourself if you’d like, then choose who joins your team.
Why week three is the one that counts
Finding someone who can do the job is easy. Finding someone you can trust to do it well when you’re not in the room is harder.
For remote teams, attitude, judgement, communication and reliability matter just as much as technical ability. That’s why we recruit to your specific role, test the skills that matter, and have our founders personally assess every finalist before we introduce them to you.
The goal isn’t to give you a pool of candidates. It’s to handpick the people we genuinely believe will work well with your team.
Roles
One monthly invoice, agreed upfront. Payroll, tax, equipment and management are all included.
No placement fee. No hidden costs. No lock-in.
Just 60 days’ notice.
Executive and operational support that gives you back your time. Hand off your inbox, calendar, travel, supplier chasing and other non-essential work, so you can focus on what matters.
Typical roles
From $1,750 / month
Marketing and creative support that gets your brand seen and your message in front of the right people. From campaigns and content to social, design and everything in between.
Typical roles
From $2,000 / month
Finance and back-office support that keeps your numbers accurate and your business running smoothly. Bookkeeping, reconciliations, payroll, reporting and the financial admin that needs to be right every time.
Typical roles
From $1,800 / month
The engineers who turn ideas into working products. Feature delivery, infrastructure, release pipelines, test coverage and the technical work that keeps your team moving.
Typical roles
From $2,865 / month
Roles are priced based on the person’s qualifications, seniority and scope of work.
FAQ
No. We do not run a shared pool or a bench. Every person is recruited specifically against your brief, interviewed by you, and works on your account only. Naut Space stays the employer and handles performance, QA, payroll and tooling.
English is an official language of Sri Lanka and the working language of its professional sector. Our specialists are assessed at CEFR C1 to C2, and we test written English and async communication specifically, not just conversation.
Sri Lanka is GMT+5:30, but your team works your hours rather than ours. For European clients that lands on a normal Colombo working day. For US clients it means working overnight here, which is why we screen for it when we hire: night shifts genuinely suit some people and not others, and we place the ones they suit. Either way, the overlap is your whole working day.
Three to four weeks to a shortlist. We scope the role, source and screen against it, interview the finalists ourselves, and come back with one to three candidates for your decision. We recruit to your brief rather than placing whoever is on a bench, which is what those weeks buy you. After you pick someone, the start date depends on them: some can begin immediately, and others are serving notice with a current employer, usually a month. We weigh that up when we decide who to put in front of you, so tell us how urgent the seat is and we will work to it.
You contract with Naut Space. One agreement, one monthly invoice, and no local entity for you to register. We hold the relationship with the specialist in Sri Lanka, handle how they are engaged and paid, and keep that side compliant with local law, so none of the local administration or filings reach you.
Yes, and the buyout terms sit in the agreement from day one. For the first eighteen months the buyout fee is four months of the service fee for that role. After eighteen months there is no buyout fee at all: you move them onto your own payroll and we support the transfer. The fee covers the search we ran and the notice we lose when they go, and it is a flat figure you can work out in advance, with no percentage of their first-year salary on top. We think good people should be able to end up permanently employed by the team they work with every day, so the route is priced in the open.
If someone leaves, we find a replacement at the same level and your service fee does not change. The new person arrives with the same 30-day guarantee the first one had. Our people work a two-month notice period, so in most cases the person leaving is still with you while their replacement is being briefed, and the handover happens between them rather than landing on you. Annual leave is planned with you in advance, and sick days work the way they do for anyone else on your team.
Ready when you are
Take thirty minutes with the founders. We’ll understand what you need, give you a clear price range, and tell you if we’re not the right fit.
Tell us what you need and we’ll come back with a price within one working day.
We’ll read this properly and come back to you within one working day, usually with a price and a couple of questions.
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