Overview
Covela is a Philippine offshore staffing platform for businesses that want to add capacity without hiring locally. Companies start by describing the work they need covered, get an instant monthly price estimate and then move through recruitment into ongoing employment. Covela recruits and employs the person, while the client business manages the day to day.
Key Features
- Instant monthly quote: A pricing tool asks for the role and the hours involved and returns a monthly estimate, so a business can test affordability before speaking to anyone.
- Role brief and team canvas: A brief builder captures responsibilities, working arrangements, time zone requirements and business context. The draft stays editable and nothing is submitted until the sender chooses Send brief.
- AI-assisted recruitment with human review: Candidate assessment combines AI support with recruiter judgement. The recruitment process was refined at sister company Adaca over 11 years as of 2026.
- Approvals inside the platform: Leave requests, overtime and performance reviews flow through the platform for the client to approve, with onboarding progress and hiring drafts visible on a team dashboard.
- Employer services: Covela employs the team members directly and handles payroll, HR and employment administration, coordinated by people in Australia and the Philippines.
- Industry and role directories: 16 industry pages (healthcare, mining, retail and e-commerce, professional services, and more) plus role guides covering finance, customer support, operations, administration and technology.
Use Cases
An accounting practice that keeps losing bookkeeping candidates locally could build a brief for reconciliations and reporting support, review finance profiles with Covela's recruiters, then hand daily priorities to the new hire while Covela runs payroll.
A software company scaling a support function might take the same route for a customer support role covering enquiries and service coordination across a required time zone, adding further roles to the brief as the team grows.
What sets it apart is that recruitment is only half the offering. The employment, payroll and performance side stays with Covela, so the client keeps direction of the work without the paperwork.
