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You built a team at work. At home you're still doing everything.
A house manager runs the home the way you'd staff a function at work: a role, a person, a system. Founders staff every function in the business and none at home. The household runs on the same logic as the company: define the role, hire the right person, give them ownership and a system. A house manager is that hire, and we run the search the way you'd want your recruiter to.
Bring the list of what you'd never do yourself at work but still do at home.
Home as HQ
The home office, without the household walking in on it.
One founder household we placed runs 30 to 40 hours a week.
- 10,000+ families supported
- 90-day guarantee
- Flat fee, never a % of salary
What people are saying
On the highest-leverage hire at home.
“I am FULLY convinced there is no higher leverage hire than an EXPERIENCED house manager/personal assistant. We are OBSESSED with the house manager Sage Haus brought to us.”
Ownership, not tasks
The house manager owns areas of the home the way a lead owns a function: kitchen, supplies, vendors, logistics. You get a weekly report, not a daily question.
Home as HQ
If you work from the house, the house is also the office. Several families below are founders whose home needed running as both.
Flat fee
Not a percentage of salary. One fee for the search, in two payments. You'd never pay a recruiter a cut of a hire's wages forever; you don't here either.
The gap
Every function at work is staffed. Here's the one at home.
Founders tell us the same thing: they'd never run the business the way they run the house. The fix is the one you already know: a role, a person, a system.
How the house runs now
- You are procurement, facilities, logistics and catering
- Decisions interrupt the workday: the plumber, the return, the dinner
- The partner carries the overflow, or nobody does
- Evenings and weekends go to catch-up
- Nothing is documented; everything lives in your head
How it runs with a house manager
- One owner for supplies, vendors, resets, meals and errands
- Decision rights set up front: what they handle without asking
- The Home Systems Playbook as the operating manual
- A weekly check-in, the way you'd run a one-on-one
- Your head back on the business, and on the kids
Run the house like the company? That's the kickoff call.
Seen enough? Pick a time now.
A free 30-minute group call with a Sage Haus hiring specialist. No obligation, and the fee is covered live.
What you'll get
A search run the way you'd want your recruiter to run it.
1
Kickoff call with your specialist
Scope the role the way you'd scope a hire: outcomes, hours, decision rights.
2
A job description with ownership built in
Areas owned, not tasks listed. Written to attract people who run things.
3
Vetted finalists, interviews arranged
Sourced, screened and interviewed by a person. You meet two or three finalists. References and a background check before any offer.
4
Onboarding and a 90-day guarantee
An onboarding call, the Playbook, a six-week check-in, and a one-time re-match within 90 days if the fit isn't right.
Home is the office
Running both from one address.
Two of the families below are founders working from home. The house manager keeps the house from becoming the thing that interrupts the business.
Travel-heavy?
The house runs while you're out.
One parent on the road, one running a business from the house: the house manager is the constant.
Case studies
Founders who staffed the home.
The Marsden family · Entrepreneurs
They built a team at work. At home they were still doing everything themselves.
Multiple businesses and several properties run out of one suburban household, young children, and a calendar that changes by the hour.
The Lockhart family · Entrepreneurs
First the house manager. Then the business.
A single mom on the West Coast with two children, a large home that demands attention, and a big extended family in the mix.
The Tillman family · Entrepreneurs
Home is the sanctuary and the headquarters. Both needed running.
A systems-minded couple running a business from home with two young children and a dog, and homeschooling starting that fall.
The Alderton family · Entrepreneurs
One parent runs a business from the house. The other is on the road.
One parent runs a business from home, so the household has to function like an office while the workday happens inside it.
The Fenwick family · Entrepreneurs
A founder, three children, and a household split across two weeks.
A founder co-parenting three children on an alternating schedule.
The Farrowmere family · Entrepreneurs
Nothing was broken. That was the point.
A founder running a ten-person company from the suburbs, with a household that worked — filters changed, closets orderly, gifts bought — because she was the one keeping it that way.
Read all the stories at sagehaus.com/case-studies.
Not ready to book? Take the three-minute quiz.
It builds a scope for your family: the hours, the tasks and the kind of role that fits. You get the result straight away.
The numbers
Your hourly value against the household's hours.
Founders know their hourly value. The calculator puts it next to the hours the house takes and shows the return on a house manager at the hours you choose.
- The cost today, including your own time
- Hours back for the business
- Return on the search at one and two years
How the calculator works
- 1What you pay today for sitters, delivery, cleaners and errands, plus the hours you put in yourself
- 2A house manager at the hours and rate you choose, with W-2 costs if you want them
- 3How you find them: a flat fee, an agency percentage, or your own time
- 4The return on the search at one and two years, and the hours you get back
Nothing is filled in for you. Add the Sage Haus fee from your call when you have it.
Book a call
Ready for support?
A free 30-minute call with a Sage Haus hiring specialist. We'll look at your week, tell you honestly what kind of role fits, and if a search makes sense, what it would look like for your family.
More from our families
What changes after the hire.
“The fact that they handle all of the job listings, all of the screening, all of the interviews, and only bring us final selections who pass all checks saves us so many hours.”
“Our home finally has a sense of forward momentum.”
“I finally feel like I'm not doing everything myself, and our home runs smoother, even with two careers and two kids.”
Questions families ask
Before you book.
Is this an executive assistant for the house?
Closer than you'd think, with hands. A house manager owns the physical running of the home as well as the admin: supplies, resets, vendors, meals, errands, the calendar. Some roles include EA-style admin; the scope is yours to set.
How much of my time does the search take?
A kickoff call, feedback on the job description, two or three finalist interviews and a decision. We do the sourcing, screening and scheduling.
Can the house manager make decisions without me?
That's the point. The onboarding call sets decision rights: what they handle, what they flag, a spending threshold. The Home Systems Playbook gives them the operating manual.
Free resource: The mental load, explained and time and cost calculator
What will I pay the house manager?
Founder households often scope 30 to 40 hours, so the weekly cost sits at the upper end. Typically $25 to $50 an hour depending on scope and location, higher in New York and the Bay Area. They're a W-2 household employee; we point you to a payroll partner that handles taxes and pay stubs. Our own fee is covered on the call.
Free resource: time and cost calculator
How do you vet candidates?
We run the search the way you'd want a recruiter to. Regional hiring specialists source from local boards and our certified talent pool. Every candidate is screened and interviewed by a human before you meet them. References, a background check and an employment agreement come before any offer, and a one-time re-match is available within 90 days.
How long does it take?
If the business has a date, we work back from it. About four to six weeks from an approved job description to your first candidates. If you have a date in mind, we work back from it.
What if it doesn't work out?
If the role needs to change as the business does, the guarantee covers it. A one-time re-match with up to two new candidates inside the first 90 days, no extra fee, provided you did the onboarding call and the six-week check-in with us.
My partner thinks it's an indulgence.
Run the calculator together: your hourly value against the hours the household takes. Then bring them to the call.
Free resource: Pitch in the Kitchen and the calculator
Do you cover my area?
Founder households have come to us from the Northeast, the West Coast and the Midwest. Families across the United States and Canada, with regional specialists who know the local market. Rural and small-town searches take a little longer; tell us where you are on the call.