Our Values
We believe remote work should create real economic opportunity. That means treating people well, providing meaningful benefits, and helping our VAs build greater financial stability for themselves and their families.
Agency VA helps insurance agencies build and support modern teams through trained remote professionals, managed service teams, global employment infrastructure, and technology designed around insurance operations.
Agency VA began with Ben Barrientos and Wessly Anderson, two agency owners who understood the operational pressure behind running and growing an insurance business. What started in 2005 has since grown into a broader workforce and technology company built specifically around the needs of insurance agencies.
2005
Ben Barrientos and Wessly Anderson start Agency VA, using their agency owner experience.
2012
Agency VA expands its model with trained remote professionals, supporting insurance agencies in client-facing and back-office work.
2018
The company uses AVA technology for workforce management, tracking, and reporting.
Today
Agency VA combines virtual assistants, service teams, and AVA products to help insurance agencies hire and scale.
Agency VA was built to solve real operational needs for insurance agencies while creating stable, well-supported careers for remote professionals. That balance continues to shape how we hire, support, and grow.
We believe remote work should create real economic opportunity. That means treating people well, providing meaningful benefits, and helping our VAs build greater financial stability for themselves and their families.
Our mission is to empower insurance agencies to cultivate robust teams while enhancing the well-being of the professionals who drive their success. We believe that growth should be mutually beneficial for all partners involved.
We believe a remote job should offer more than a paycheck. Our approach is built around long-term employment, meaningful benefits, and access to the financial tools that help people create greater stability for themselves and their families.
Comprehensive healthcare provides our virtual assistants and their families security without choosing between health and finances.
Employer-supported retirement savings help our virtual assistants plan beyond their next paycheck and build greater long-term financial security.
Building credit and qualifying for financing can open the door to major milestones, from purchasing a car or home to investing in a family's future.
We build reliable, long-term relationships that provide our virtual assistants with the stability needed for future planning.
— OUR IMPACT —
Beyond the paycheck.
It may sound crazy, but some of our virtual assistants are making more than the mayors of their provinces. That’s what we call disruption.
Agency VA combines specialized remote talent with purpose-built technology to help insurance agencies handle day-to-day work, improve visibility, and build teams that can grow with the business.
Build your team with professionals who understand insurance operations and the demands of agency work. From dedicated virtual assistants to licensed talent and managed service teams, we help agencies add the right support without taking on the burden of recruiting and managing it alone.
Our technology extends that support beyond staffing. The AVA product ecosystem gives agencies tools for workforce management, training, reporting, AI-assisted operations, and greater visibility across the business.
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Every VA in our network goes through a multi-stage vetting process — skills assessment, background verification, communication testing, and industry-specific knowledge checks. VAs who pass are then enrolled in our training program, which covers insurance agency workflows, AMS platforms, compliance basics, and client communication standards. By the time we match a VA to your agency, they already understand how insurance businesses operate.
Yes. We match VAs based on your timezone and preferred working hours as a primary filter — not an afterthought. Whether you need someone on East Coast hours, West Coast hours, or a split shift that covers your peak client contact times, we find a VA whose schedule aligns with yours. Availability and overlap are part of every match, not something you negotiate after placement.
Security and compliance are built into our process. All VAs sign NDAs before placement, operate under data handling protocols aligned with insurance industry standards, and are briefed on client confidentiality requirements specific to your state and license type. For agencies with stricter requirements, our team can walk you through additional compliance measures before onboarding begins.
We replace them. If a VA isn't the right fit for any reason — performance, communication, skill gaps, or just personality mismatch — we handle the replacement at no extra cost. Most replacements are completed within five business days. We track placement outcomes and use every case to refine future matches, so the longer you work with us, the better our recommendations get.
Most clients are matched and onboarded within five to seven business days from their first consultation. The process goes: intake call → match presentation → VA interview (optional) → offer and onboarding. If you already know exactly what you need and have your tools ready, we can move faster. The bottleneck is almost never on our end.
A Virtual Assistant is a single dedicated remote professional placed directly with your agency — ideal for owners and small teams who need consistent day-to-day support. A Trained Service Team is a pre-built group of three to ten specialists with a dedicated team lead, standardized SOPs, and built-in quality control — designed for agencies that need to scale output without scaling management overhead. Both options are fully managed through Agency VA.
AVA EOR (Employer of Record) is our global hiring solution for agencies that want to hire international remote workers as full-time employees — without setting up a local entity in another country. We become the legal employer on your behalf and handle contracts, payroll, taxes, and statutory benefits across 150+ countries. You need it if you want to hire internationally with full legal compliance and none of the entity setup cost or complexity.
Discover how AI-powered matching connects you with virtual assistants tailored to your needs — set up in minutes, built to scale.