100% US-based. No exceptions.
Every Executive Assistant, Specialist, and Fractional Executive in the Nacho network lives and works in the United States. Same time zone, same business day, no offshore handoff at 6pm.
Free 30-minute call. Every match backed by the Nacho re-match guarantee.
The plain definition
A US-based Virtual Assistant is an administrative professional who lives and works in the United States, keeps US business hours, and is contracted under US law. At Nacho, that describes every person in the network: Executive Assistants, Specialists, and Fractional Executives. There are no offshore teams and no exceptions.
A question at 9am gets an answer at 9am, not at 9pm after you have already worked around it. Your assistant sits in a US time zone, so the workday you are living is the workday they are living. There is no 12-hour offset to plan your delegation around and no queue of overnight replies waiting for you at breakfast.
Your assistant writes to your customers, your vendors, and your team in the register those people expect, because it is the register they grew up in. That covers idiom and tone, but also context: US holidays, tax season, school calendars, and how a follow-up email reads when a deal is on the line.
Every person in the network is properly classified US talent under a US contract, and Nacho handles the paperwork and payments. You are not sorting out foreign worker classification, cross-border payment rails, or a surprise 1099 question from your accountant in Q1.
Your assistant will hold credentials to your inbox, your CRM, and sometimes your bank portal. Working with a US-owned company and US-based talent keeps that access inside one legal jurisdiction, which makes your own security review, your client contracts, and your insurance questionnaire much easier to answer.
An honest comparison
Offshore delegation almost always costs less per hour. US-based delegation costs more per hour and removes three specific expenses that do not appear on an invoice: time zone lag, translation and rework, and worker classification risk. Which model wins depends on whether your work is client-facing and time-sensitive.
| What differs | Offshore delegation | US-based delegation |
|---|---|---|
| Overlap with your workday | Often 0 to 3 hours. Common time zones sit 9 to 13 hours from US business hours. | Full overlap. Same business day, coast to coast at worst. |
| Turnaround rhythm | Overnight batches. Genuinely useful for queued work you can spec once and review in the morning. | Same-day back and forth. Useful for work that changes while it is being done. |
| Client-facing communication | Workable, and often excellent, but idiom, tone, and US context usually need a review pass. | Native context. Your assistant can email a client or call a vendor without a review pass. |
| Worker classification | Foreign contractor rules, cross-border payment rails, and your own compliance homework. | Properly classified US talent under a US contract. Nacho handles it. |
| Data jurisdiction | Access to your systems sits under another country's law and enforcement. | One jurisdiction. Simpler to answer in a security review or client contract. |
| Typical hourly rate | Lower, sometimes dramatically. This is the real and honest advantage. | Higher. Nacho starts at $40/hr for an Executive Assistant. |
| Management overhead | Heavier. Specs must be tighter, and rework lands on you a day later. | Lighter. You can course-correct inside the same hour. |
| Best fit | High-volume, well-specified, repeatable tasks where price per hour is the deciding factor. | Judgment work, client contact, and anything where a 12-hour delay costs you more than the rate does. |
This is a comparison of two delivery models, not of the people in them. Offshore teams include excellent professionals doing excellent work, and for some workloads the math clearly favors them. Nacho does one of these two things, so this page argues for the one we do.
Executive Assistant services and more
Nacho's Executive Assistant services cover inbox and calendar management, travel and meeting coordination, expense and invoice tracking, CRM upkeep, and the recurring admin that fills a founder's week. Executive Assistants start at $40 per hour. Specialists and Fractional Executives draw from the same monthly Talent Budget when the work runs deeper.
Starting at $40/hr
Inbox triage, calendar defense, travel, meeting prep, expenses, CRM hygiene, and the hundred small things that quietly eat a founder's week.
Starting at $65/hr
Marketing, design, web, recruiting, bookkeeping, and operations. Hands-on professionals who take a function off your plate and ship real work.
Starting at $125/hr
CMOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs, and sales and people leaders who own the strategy 2 to 3 days a week instead of a full-time seat.
One monthly Talent Budget covers all three, with a $1,000 monthly minimum and a 3-month initial term before it moves to month-to-month. See everything the network handles.
The process
Start with a free 30-minute discovery call. For $300 we build your Delegation Strategy Plan, then hand-pick 1 to 3 candidates from the US-based network and introduce you before you commit. Most clients meet their match in about a week. If the fit is wrong, we re-match you free.
A free 30-minute call. No job description required, and no obligation at the end of it.
For $300 we build your Delegation Strategy Plan: what to hand off, and the talent mix to do it. It is yours to keep either way.
We hand-pick 1 to 3 candidates from the US-based network and introduce you. You talk to them before you commit.
We handle contracts, payments, and check-ins. Scale hours up or down month to month as the work changes.
We have been matching US-based talent since 2015, from our founding home in Austin, Texas.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Every Executive Assistant, Specialist, and Fractional Executive in the Nacho network lives and works in the United States. There is no offshore delivery team behind the scenes and no subcontracting abroad. That has been true since the company was founded in 2015, and it is not something we make exceptions on.
Because you are paying a US professional a US wage, plus the vetting, matching, contracting, and payment handling that sits on top of it. The rate reflects an experienced person in your time zone who can talk to your clients directly, not the cheapest available hour.
Executive Assistants start at $40/hr, Specialists at $65/hr, and Fractional Executives at $125/hr. You set one monthly Talent Budget with a $1,000 minimum and spend it across all three levels in any blend. Onboarding and your Delegation Strategy Plan are a one-time $300.
Most clients meet their first match about a week after the discovery call, and many start work the same week they meet. We would rather take that week and introduce you to the right person than send you a profile the same afternoon.
There is a 3-month initial term so your match has time to learn your business and get real traction, and after that it moves to month-to-month. You can scale your Talent Budget up or down with a short notice period.
We re-match you for free under the Nacho Guarantee, and we keep going until the fit is right. The guarantee is a free re-match rather than a refund, because the fix for a bad fit is the right person, not your money back.
The talent is US-based; the clients do not have to be. Companies operating in US time zones or selling into the US market get the most out of the model, since the overlap in working hours is what makes real-time collaboration possible.
Yes. Your match works directly in your systems: your email, your calendar, your CRM, your project tracker, your shared drive. There is no Nacho portal to learn and no separate place your work goes to live.
Ready when you are
Book a free, no-obligation discovery call. Tell us what is eating your week and we will tell you honestly whether a US-based Executive Assistant, a Specialist, or a Fractional Executive is the right first hire.