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I didn't start a staffing company. Started answering the phone.

David Krug spent years running remote teams. Then he built a family in the Philippines. Friends started asking him to find people. That's 701am. Not a pitch. A phone that kept ringing.

David Krug
David Krug · Denver · Philippines

The name

701am is not a clock. It's the standard.

7 days a week. 0 excuses. 1 life to live. Every AM. Morning. When the work is already done.

  • 7 Days a week

    The work does not keep office hours. Neither do we. Overnight is the product, not a shift you apologize for.

  • 0 Excuses

    No timezone surprises. No extra resume dumps. Hours get locked. The bar holds. If we can't fill it, we say so.

  • 1 Life to live

    You get one. Spend it on the work only you can do. Hire the rest. That's the whole argument.

  • AM Every morning

    The Philippines is on while you're off. Inbox, books, automations. Cleared before coffee. That's the AM.

The years.

You've either run a remote team or you've been lied to about one. David had been in it for years. Shipping. Managing. Watching the gap between the slide deck and the person who actually does the work. He already knew the Philippines wasn't a loophole. It was a labor market with professionals in it.

The family.

Then he built a family in the Philippines. That's not a case study. That's real mornings, real people, a country he doesn't have to Google. You don't fake that. You live it. And once you live it, you stop talking about 'offshore' like it's a hack.

The phone.

Entrepreneur friends called. Other businesses too. Can you find someone like the people you work with. He kept saying yes. One seat. Then another. Then it was a company whether he liked the word or not.

The company.

701am is the name because that's the operating system. We find AI trained operators in the Philippines. You meet three. You pick. If the seat fails in ninety days, we run it again. If we can't fill it, that's the first thing we say.

Get Started

Tell me the job.

Twenty minutes. If we can't fill it, I'll say that. Then you go do something else with your day.

Twenty minutes