Scale your agency without the hiring chaos.

Freelancers work for themselves and juggle multiple clients at once. Beam operators work for you, embedded in your team, on your schedule, using your tools, reporting to your manager. Every operator is recruited, screened, and trained by Beam before they ever start with a client, so you get someone who's ready to work from day one instead of someone you have to onboard from scratch. If a freelancer disappears mid-project, that's your problem. If a Beam operator isn't working out, that's our problem, we replace them, and you keep moving.

Beam places operators with two kinds of teams: U.S.-based marketing and creative agencies, and internal marketing departments at growing companies that need embedded support without adding headcount. The common thread isn't industry, it's structure. Beam works best when there's an existing team with established workflows, and you need someone to plug in and execute rather than someone to set strategy from scratch.

We replace them — at no placement fee. If an operator isn't working out, let us know in writing and we'll present a matched replacement within 15 business days, often sooner. You're not charged your monthly fee for any gap between operators; we prorate and credit it. Replacements are free in every normal case. The only exception: if you ask to replace the operator in the same role more than twice within a 90-day window, each swap beyond the second carries a one-time $500 re-onboarding fee, which covers bringing the new operator up to speed on your systems, tools, and team. Any replacement that happens on our side — an operator resigns, becomes unavailable, or we remove them for performance — never counts toward that and is always free. And if we can't present a replacement that fits within 45 days, you're free to end the engagement with no further obligation. You're committed to the engagement, not to a specific person.

Beam operators are Argentine professionals, agency-trained, English-fluent, AI-certified, and working on U.S. business hours. Argentina sits in the same timezone as the U.S. East Coast for most of the year (one hour ahead of EST in summer, same as EST in winter), so your operator is online when you are. No overnight handoffs, no waiting until tomorrow for a response. Operators report directly into your team, you set the priorities, the meetings, the communication channels. Beam handles the contractor relationship, training, payments, and replacement if needed, so you get the benefits of an embedded team member without the overhead of running an international contractor relationship.

Every Beam operator is trained on the agency-standard stack: ClickUp, Slack, Google Workspace, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and the core AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and more). Beyond that, tool fluency depends on the role, paid media operators know Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads at a deeper level; project coordinators know ClickUp and Asana cold; reporting operators know Looker Studio, GA4, and HL reporting. If your team runs on a specific tool we haven't listed, ask in your Discovery call. We'll tell you straight whether we have an operator with that experience or whether we'd need to source for it.

Yes, a 90-day initial term. During those first 90 days, Beam guarantees the placement: if the operator isn't working out, we replace them at no charge. After 90 days, the engagement continues month-to-month with 30 days' notice to cancel. There's no long-term contract and no annual lock-in. The 90-day term exists because hiring an operator only to cut them at week 6 doesn't give the relationship a fair shot, but past 90 days, you stay because it's working, not because you have to.

Beam places operators across three Placement Fee tiers. Your tier is set by the role and how much scope and autonomy it carries; the exact fee within that tier reflects the operator's experience and the complexity of the engagement. • Support tier ($1,500–$2,500/mo) — lighter-scope, supporting roles and less complex work • Standard tier ($2,500–$3,500/mo) — mid-to-senior roles; where most placements land • Senior tier ($3,500–$4,500/mo) — senior specialists in advanced disciplines, including advanced AI certifications Every monthly invoice also includes a flat $72 Market Operations Fee — the same at every tier. It covers the operational backbone behind your operator: our platform and tools, time tracking, compliance, and the admin of paying and supporting the operator so you never have to. It's the only charge on top of your placement fee. Payment is straightforward: ACH transfer or automatic card charge is free. If you prefer to pay a card invoice manually, a standard card-processing surcharge of about 3% applies, at our actual cost and shown on every invoice. If your role doesn't cleanly fit one of these tiers, we'll tell you in Discovery rather than force-fitting you into the wrong bucket.