Twenty years of human assistants. Now with AI on their desk.
We've been doing this since 2005, long before "virtual assistant" was a job title anyone recognised. What's changed recently is the toolkit. Our assistants now use AI to draft first versions, summarise long documents and pull data together, then check and finish the work themselves.
You still deal with a person. Things just come back sooner.
Most small businesses don't have time to work out which AI tools are worth paying for
Big companies have IT teams to test new software. A five-person firm or a busy household usually has a stack of free trials nobody set up properly.
We can help with that. Your assistant works out what's worth using, sets it up and keeps it running, without you needing a tech team.
How we use AIPick the right tools
We look at how you work today and suggest the two or three tools that would make a real difference. Usually fewer than you'd expect.
Set them up
Your assistant connects them to your email, calendar or CRM and tests them on real tasks before handing over.
Automate the repeat work
Weekly reports, invoice reminders, copying data between systems. If it happens every week the same way, there's probably a way to stop doing it by hand.
2005
The year we started
80+
Countries Served
15,000+
Clients served
150,000+
Tasks completed
What we help with
The assistant service in The 4-Hour Workweek
When Tim Ferriss wrote The 4-Hour Workweek in 2007, he used GetFriday as one of his examples of how an ordinary person could hand off work to a remote assistant. For a lot of our longer-standing clients, that chapter is how they first heard of us.
The book's point still holds. Most of what fills a working week doesn't need you personally. It needs to be done properly by someone you trust.
"With a team structure, a single point of contact, a personal account manager and farming out your tasks to the most-capable people in the group and across different shifts. They got it all covered!"
- Tim Ferriss Author of 4-Hour Workweek, The New York Times bestseller
2005
The year we started
80+
Countries Served
15,000+
Clients served
150,000+
Tasks completed
Featured in The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
The 4-Hour Workweek, written by entrepreneur and author Tim Ferriss, is a bestselling book about productivity, entrepreneurship, lifestyle design, and creating greater freedom in the way we work. First published in 2007, the book challenged traditional ideas about working long hours, career planning, and retirement. It introduced readers to practical concepts such as outsourcing, delegation, automation, and location-independent work.
GetFriday is proud to have been featured in The 4-Hour Workweek. The book highlights GetFriday as an example of how individuals and businesses can use virtual assistants and remote support to delegate time-consuming tasks. By outsourcing routine administrative and personal responsibilities, people can save valuable time, improve productivity, and focus on more important, high-value activities.
20+ Years of Expertise. Evolved for the AI-Powered Era.
GetFriday has evolved from a pioneering Virtual Assistant service into a new-generation, technology-enabled workforce partner.
We combine experienced human professionals with AI, automation, and smart workflows to deliver faster, more efficient, and scalable support—without losing the human expertise and personal service our clients trust.
Human expertise. AI-powered. Built for what’s next.
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Getting started takes about a day
Tell us roughly what you need. We'll handle the rest of the set-up.
Sign up
Choose a plan and tell us a little about what you need. We match you with an assistant who works in or near your time zone.
Send your first task
Email, phone, chat, whatever's easiest. A short brief is fine; your assistant will ask if anything's unclear.
Check in when you like
You'll get updates as work is done, and every minute is logged in your client portal.
It usually will take 1 (one) business day to assign a suitable assistant after you complete the signup process. In the event that you want to select someone on your own after talking to a few of our assistants, then it would take a little more time.
Usage can be tracked periodically on our online customer portal. Upon completion of the sign up process, you will be provided with necessary login credentials to access the online portal. The online portal gives access to a dashboard that contains the lists of tasks outsourced till date and its respective time logs. If required, your assistant can also provide you the usage details on a daily/weekly/fortnightly basis.
Both are monthly plans that allow you to use a specified number of hours of assistance every month. The only difference is that Basic Plans do not have roll over of any unused hours for the month, while the Plus Plans allow roll over of unused hours subject to certain limits.
We are an ISO 27001 certified company (Information Security Standard) that takes utmost care about the safety and security of your information. We provide our staff access to your information strictly on a need to know basis. All sensitive and personally identifiable information is stored in encrypted form and handled according to the ISO standards on data protection.
GetFriday is a pioneer and one of the oldest organized VA service providers, having been in this business since 2005. Our service levels combined with flexibility and availability of different services under a single roof make us a very economical, but attractive proposition. Our unique system of secondary assistants backing up your primary one ensures continuity of service on sick days or even if an assistant quits. And of course, last but not the least you can be assured that your information and data is safe with us. We are an ISO 27001 certified company.
All our VAs are trained on office productivity tools like MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Chat, Email, Web Search, Calendar Management etc. In addition they undergo some rigorous practical training on Responsiveness, Customer Service Attitude and Cultural Sensitivity before they are inducted into the work.
Why people stay with us
Since 2005 we've worked with more than 15,000 clients in over 80 countries. Most of them came for one task and stayed for years.
Someone's always on
Your assistant keeps regular hours, but the wider team is available 24/7. Urgent weekend and holiday tasks are handled too, at a different rate.
Graduate assistants
Everyone is degree-educated and has worked across many clients before they're matched with you.
Cover when your assistant is away
A backup who knows your account steps in for sick days and holidays. You won't be starting from scratch.
Plans that change with you
Move up or down a plan with 30 days' notice.
Client Reviews
I was introduced to my VA end of last year and simply put, My remote virtual assistant who I've been working with has been exceptional. Her support in content creation and client database management has been pivotal for my health and fitness business. She's efficient, organized, and incredibly reliable. Her work has not only saved me time but has also enhanced the quality of my services. I can't recommend her enough – she's a true asset to any team and for anyone in Health & Fitness / Online Coaching, I would recommend.
Gabriel Carroll
General Manager
I was introduced to GetFriday through Tim Ferriss' book, 'The Four-HourWork Week'. I admit, I was a bit skeptical going in but decided to take the leap of faith anyway. Thankfully, it paid off! These guys are incredibly efficient! What might have taken me days to complete, they did in hours!Kudos to my very efficient assistant, who handled all my work professionally, effortlessly and unfailingly delivered top-notch work.
Gopi Kallayil
Chief Evangelist Digital Transformation & Strategy
Very good Virtual assistant, clever, concerned and empathetic.I am very happy with the services of GetFriday and my virtual assistant. They take care of a variety of administrative tasks: bill management, contact management, research work and unburden me from doing these tasks. This way, I can focus my attention and energy on finding new customers and helping them create new innovative and profitable businesses. The help of GetFriday is totally worth it.
Guillene Ribiere
Senior Innovation Strategy Consultant, AMG
I look at GetFriday as a trusted business partner and consider their employees an extension of our team. Over the years my effort has been to build repeatable processes around critical business functions and then hand them off to GetFriday. Thanks to the quality of the team that works with me on a daily basis, and also to the support I receive from their management, I have a high degree of confidence, which is substantiated by daily execution of work, that committed work will get done on time every time. I look forward to growing my association with GetFriday as we continue to build our business.
Sandip Sarwate (Owner)
Saffron Marigold
I was introduced to my VA end of last year and simply put, My remote virtual assistant who I've been working with has been exceptional. Her support in content creation and client database management has been pivotal for my health and fitness business. She's efficient, organized, and incredibly reliable. Her work has not only saved me time but has also enhanced the quality of my services. I can't recommend her enough – she's a true asset to any team and for anyone in Health & Fitness / Online Coaching, I would recommend.
Gabriel Carroll
General Manager
I was introduced to GetFriday through Tim Ferriss' book, 'The Four-HourWork Week'. I admit, I was a bit skeptical going in but decided to take the leap of faith anyway. Thankfully, it paid off! These guys are incredibly efficient! What might have taken me days to complete, they did in hours!Kudos to my very efficient assistant, who handled all my work professionally, effortlessly and unfailingly delivered top-notch work.
Gopi Kallayil
Chief Evangelist Digital Transformation & Strategy
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