Run your business from anywhere, through people you trust.
Villicus is for owners who live abroad and run a business back home through a manager, a relative or a small team. Agree the work, get decisions to you, and get an honest account every week.
Ask for early accessOpening first for businesses in Ethiopia.
Where you are
Distance turns small problems into expensive ones.
You send money and wait for a photo on WhatsApp. A decision sits until you wake up. You hear the licence lapsed after the fine arrives. Nobody is hiding anything; the work just happens where you can't see it.
Villicus gives the people you trust a simple place to show their work, and gives you one place to see it, in your own time.
How it works
Invite your people
Add the business and invite the people on the ground by email. Give each a role. Everyone signs in with a code and a second step, so nobody shares a password.
Agree the work
Turn plans into tasks with an owner and a date. When something needs your yes, it's raised as a decision with a deadline, and it comes to you.
Get an honest account
Every week each person checks in. You read one report per business: what got done, what's late, what's waiting on you.
What's inside
- Tasks
- Every job has one owner and a date. Your people update them from their phones; you see what's moving and what's late.
- Decisions
- When something needs your yes, it's written down with the context and a deadline, and it waits for you, not in a chat thread.
- Weekly report
- Each person says what got done, what's next and what's in the way. Villicus adds what actually happened that week.
- Documents
- Licences, contracts and receipts in one private place per business. Download links expire after a few minutes.
- Team and roles
- Owner, admin, manager, member, viewer. Each person sees what their role allows and nothing from your other businesses.
- Their time, at a glance
- Every business shows its local time and whether it's working hours there, before you call or send a message.
Built to be trusted with your business.
- Everyone signs in with a second step, from an authenticator app. No exceptions.
- Each business's records are walled off in the database itself, so one business can never see another's.
- Files are stored privately. A download link works for five minutes, then expires.
- Changes to the team and to each business are logged, so you can see who did what.
- We don't sell your data or use it for advertising.
villicus
Roman landowners who lived far from their estates trusted one person to run things and give an honest account: the villicus. Two thousand years later, many owners still live far from the business they built. The idea hasn't changed. The tools have.
Ask for early access
We're opening Villicus to a small group of owners first, starting with businesses in Ethiopia. Tell us a little about yours and we'll write to you personally.