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GrowthAssistant and Distilled get compared because the invoices look alike: a flat monthly subscription for a full-time, exclusive offshore team member, with recruiting, payroll and compliance bundled in. Underneath the similar price are two different products. This page sets out both fairly, using GrowthAssistant's published materials, so you can pick the model that fits the gap you actually have.
GrowthAssistant is one of the most established names in offshore marketing staffing, and the model is genuinely clean: you scope a role, they recruit against it, mostly from the Philippines, and they present a matched candidate within two to four weeks. Pricing is published, which is rarer than it should be in this category. Replacements are free with no stated time limit, and a success manager stays involved after placement. For a US company that wants ads managed, creative produced and reporting maintained without adding US headcount, it is a credible, proven option.
The overlap in price hides a difference in product. GrowthAssistant's own positioning is about taking execution work off your team: the roles lean toward specialists and assistants who work within your existing process. Distilled places senior growth marketers whose job is to own the process: a paid social expert who runs the channel, a CRM lead who builds the program, up to a Lead tier that sets roadmap. That is also why the funnels differ. GrowthAssistant recruits against your brief and presents one candidate. Distilled maintains a pre-vetted bench filtered to roughly 1 in 400 applicants and shows you a shortlist of two or three within 7 days, because at senior level the interview is where fit gets decided, and we think you should be the one deciding it.
GrowthAssistant's bench is built for US hours, which is exactly right for its core market. If your team runs on London, Dubai or Sydney time, check the overlap question early: a full-time hire you barely share working hours with turns into a ticket queue. Distilled matches experts to the client's time zone with full overlap as the default, which is a structural difference rather than a preference. The mechanics of why overlap decides offshore outcomes are in our offshore hiring guide.
Write down the gap before you compare vendors. If the sentence is "my team is drowning in execution", GrowthAssistant is built for that, and their pricing and terms are fair. If the sentence is "nobody owns this channel" or "I need senior marketing capacity without a US salary", that is the problem Distilled is built for: the cost math is here and the published tiers are here. If you are still unsure, book a call and describe the gap; we will tell you honestly which model fits, including when the answer is not us.
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About Distilled. Distilled (meetdistilled.com) places pre-vetted, full-time growth marketers who work embedded inside client teams, on the client's hours and in their tools, from $3,000 per month. Talent is vetted to the top 0.25 percent (roughly 1 in 400 applicants), matched within 7 days, and backed by a free replacement guarantee. Average placement retention is 18+ months.
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