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People at their best, powered by AI.

AI makes them faster. Our culture makes them better. Full time staff for 1 role or a whole team, in our office in the Philippines.

Tell us the roleTell us what to build

California since 2008. Philippines since 2019. Our first client, from 2008, is still with us.

  • Works with AI tools
  • A project manager checks

On your own, you do all 7.With Purple Cow, you do 2. We do the other 5.

  • Find the right personPurple CowYou
  • Employ and pay them, with government contributionsPurple CowYou
  • Set up the desk, backup internet, and AI toolsPurple CowYou
  • Lead them every dayPurple CowYou
  • Replace them if they leavePurple CowYou
  • Decide the tasks and prioritiesYou
  • Review the workYou

2 ways to work with us

2 ways to get the work done

Pillar 1

A full time team that works with AI

Full time employees in any role, in our office, using AI tools every day. A project manager checks the output.

  • 1 person or a whole team. You direct the work.
  • We recruit, employ, pay, and replace.
  • Desk, backup internet, backup power, a report every month.
Tell us the roleSee how staffing works

Pillar 2

An AI system that does the job, run by our team

Systems that answer customers, write drafts, match buyers, send reminders, and keep records. We build them, then run them every month.

  • AI does the first draft. A person checks every piece.
  • Hands over to a person for anything that matters.
  • A build fee, then a monthly fee while we run it.
Tell us what to buildSee what we built

Built with AI. Run by people.

3 systems we built with AI and run every day

The AI Stunt Double is on this site. The other 2 are live websites. Open them and see.

Read the case studies

Build your team

Pick the roles. See each desk appear.

Every person gets the same desk, the same backup, and the same supervision.

Step 1. Pick roles

Press a role to add 1 person. Press it again to add another.

Your team is empty.

Step 2. Your office in the Philippines

0 people

Every person gets

  • Desk and computer
  • Internet with backup
  • Power with backup
  • Supervision in the room
  • Attendance tracking
  • Replacement
  • Monthly report
Step 3. Tell us the role

Tell us the role and we reply with a price.

Prefer not to manage people?We build a system for the work and run it for you every month.See build and run

Example

What a month looks like

This example follows 1 person in our office, from day 1 to the monthly report.

See a sample monthly report
A month with 1 personExample

Example. On day 1, the desk is ready. A check mark fills each day the person is present. A headset stops working, so we raise a ticket and fix it. At the end of the month, a report shows attendance, work done, and issues resolved.

How Purple Cow compares

Of these 4 options, only Purple Cow includes a desk, backup power and internet, and a supervisor in the room.

Purple Cow
Your full time person works from our office in the Philippines.
Hire at home
You hire an employee in your own country.
Freelancer
You pay a person who works for themselves.
Employer of record service
A service employs the person you found and runs payroll.

  • Who employs them

    Yes. Purple Cow: We do

    • No. Hire at home: You do
    • No. Freelancer: No one. They work for themselves.
    • Yes. Employer of record service: The service does

  • Desk and equipment

    Yes. Purple Cow: Included, in our office

    • No. Hire at home: You buy them
    • No. Freelancer: They use their own
    • No. Employer of record service: Not included

  • Someone supervising in the room

    Yes. Purple Cow: Our supervisor, in the room

    • No. Hire at home: You or your manager
    • No. Freelancer: No one
    • No. Employer of record service: Not included

  • Replacement if they leave

    Yes. Purple Cow: We replace the person

    • No. Hire at home: You hire again
    • No. Freelancer: You find a new one
    • No. Employer of record service: You find a new one

Yes means it is done for you. No means you do it yourself, or it is not included.

Employer of record services publish prices from about $599 per person per month, for payroll and contracts only. Published prices, October 2026.

See the full comparison

Since 2008

Working with clients since 2008

Purple Cow started in California in 2008. Our company in the Philippines started in 2019. John, our founder, runs the California Expat YouTube channel.

  1. 2008Purple Cow starts in California.
  2. 2008Our first client, from 2008, is still with us.
  3. 2010Another client has been with us since 2010.
  4. 2019Our company in the Philippines starts.
John, the founder of Purple Cow

John, our founder

  • Founded Purple Cow in 2008
  • Has lived in the Philippines since 2020
  • Runs the California Expat YouTube channel
  • Built a healthcare outsourcing company and exited it
  • Received the 2026 Pusong Pinoy award from the Benita and Catalino Yap Foundation
Book a consultation with JohnRead about Purple Cow

Why us for AI

Why trust us with AI? We build it and run it every day.

Love To Travel and Tahanan are 2 live systems we built and run. Open them and see what a system like yours could look like.

John speaks to business owners in the Philippines about running a company on AI. You get that practice, plus 18 years of running people who check work.

See the case studies
2008
Purple Cow starts in California
700+
businesses served since 2008
2
companies running on systems we built
4
AI features in 1 of them, each with a person who checks

Tell us the role you need, or the job you want done.

Send us the details. We reply by email, with a price for a role or a plan for a system.

Tell us the roleTell us what to build
  • Our first client, from 2008, is still with us.
  • Another client has been with us since 2010.