For households
Quietly Kept helps busy families find the right household manager, then gives everyone one shared place for the diaries, routines, handovers and everyday decisions that keep a home moving. We stay alongside you while you settle in, but never between you. The working relationship stays yours.
Approachable, in proportion
Hiring a household manager isn't only for ultra-high-net-worth households. The cliché is the country estate and the live-in staff. The reality is far more practical: most of the families we work with are dual-career professionals, single parents, and first-time founders, running their homes on a few hours of help each week. Quietly Kept exists to make that introduction simple, considered, and within reach.
Who we hold in mind
Juggling work and the school run, dinner on the table, and the plumber you keep forgetting to book. The lunchbox rotation, the piano teacher's number, the in-laws on Sunday: all held in your head while you're in another meeting.
After a month with us
Eleanor knows the rotation. She remembers the piano teacher. The plumber came on Thursday before you noticed it was Thursday. The Saturday list isn't yours any more, and Saturday morning finally is.
Putting the baby down at seven, and then the washing, the kitchen, the dishwasher. The 'rest' you never quite get to, the sense of always being mid-task and always one push behind.
After a month with us
The washing folded by three. The kitchen kept. The hour after bedtime, finally, your own. A Saturday morning with the paper, alone, on purpose.
It's the to-do list living in one of your heads. Dinner becomes a debrief; small resentments settle in around 'who remembered.' You talk about logistics more than you talk about each other.
After a month with us
Dinner without the list between you. The errands done quietly during the day, the dry cleaning collected, the Sunday-night travel pickup booked before either of you asked. The evening, finally, for each other.
Dual-career or single-parent households with school-aged children
Families relocating to or within Australia
Founders and executives whose calendar runs to the half-hour
Households comfortable engaging their manager directly, with us in the background
Households needing on-site staff (cleaners, nannies, in-home care)
One-off cleaning or short-term cover
Roles requiring live-in care or registered nursing
Engagements shorter than three months
What is included
A shortlist, an engagement, and the platform. Priced as one because they belong together.
We start by listening: a real conversation about how your week runs and what's been quietly slipping. Then, for a one-off $295 fee, we sift the candidates, shortlist three managers chosen for the way you live, and validate ID, references and right-to-work. We arrange the interviews and stay close while you decide. You focus on the fit; we handle the sift.
When you find someone who fits, we help you settle them in well: the contract template, the onboarding, the difference between contracting and employment. A named partner at Quietly Kept stays in your corner: quarterly check-ins, successor candidates on file if anything changes. We're alongside you, never between you. The working relationship is yours.
Our platform keeps the household on one quiet page: calendars, routines, handovers, household notes, the gate codes and the gardener. Kept by your manager, read at a glance by your family, never another inbox. So the help itself stays simple, and managing the home doesn't become another job. For $49 a month.
A typical engagement
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The platform · in detail
Built for the way a real home runs: handovers between manager and family, a pantry that knows what's low, routines that don't require a meeting. We chose calm over completeness — there is nothing in here you don't actually need.
Family + manager, with privacy layers
Morning, evening, weekly cadences
A note, not a meeting
Low-stock surfaced automatically
Manuals, warranties, gate codes
Manager and family apps included
Today · 4 items
Pantry · low
Handover
Plumber confirmed for 9. I'll be at school pickup. Linens on the bed in the guest room — your sister arrives 4pm.
Investment
We charge a one-off $295 to find your manager and onboard your household. From then on, $49 a month covers the platform, your named partner, and successor candidates on file. Cancel any time. The household pays the manager directly — we take no margin on their wages.
Placement
Then
Two to three shortlisted candidates, with full profiles
Video introductions and reference handling
Engagement paperwork support (employment or contracting)
Quietly Kept platform — included for the life of the subscription
Named household partner & successor candidates on file
Replace your manager once a year at no further placement fee
All prices in AUD, ex GST. Manager wages are paid by you, directly.
What we are not
You engage the household manager directly. They report to you, not to us. We help with the paperwork and remain available — but the relationship is yours.
Wages, super, tax and leave are handled by your accountant or a payroll provider. We can introduce one if you do not have a preference.
Quietly Kept stays at one remove. Your manager and your household meet in person; we work alongside, by phone, by note, and through the platform. It keeps us focused, and keeps your home yours.
For complex medical or aged-care needs we partner with specialised agencies and are happy to make an introduction.
Quiet FAQs
If yours is not here, write to us. We'll answer in plain language, by email, by the next business day.
It varies, but generally: keeps the calendar, runs the home day-to-day, books cleaners, tradespeople and deliveries, handles pantry and household admin, and acts as the keeper of the routine. Not a nanny, not a cleaner. Think chief of staff for a home — working alongside you, remotely.
Lightly, and on purpose. Your named partner is on email and the phone for anything that needs us — a question about contracts, a difficult conversation, a successor candidate when the time comes. Day-to-day, the work is between your manager and your household; we sit out of the way.
Most engagements settle in two to three weeks from brief to start date. Bespoke or relocation briefs may take a little longer.
No. The household pays the manager directly, through your accountant or payroll provider. We charge a one-off $295 placement fee, then $49 a month for the platform and our continued support. Nothing else.
Cancel any time — the monthly fee stops at the end of that cycle. If a placement does not settle in the first 90 days, we will re-shortlist at no further placement fee. Once a year you can also replace your manager at no further placement fee, for any reason.
Right-to-work, government ID, two professional references, a working-with-children check where relevant, and a video interview with our team. Verification reduces risk; it does not guarantee suitability.
Yes. We brief, shortlist and support the same way wherever you are — our work happens by phone and on the platform, so location does not matter to us. The same monthly rate applies Australia-wide.
Begin an enquiry
A short, considered form — fifteen minutes at most. A partner will be in touch within two business days, by phone or by note, as you prefer.
“We treat your home with the discretion you'd expect of a family office.”
The household engages the manager directly · Verification reduces risk, it does not guarantee suitability · We do not provide legal, tax, payroll or migration advice