Both sides, or neither
We open a corridor when au pairs and families are arriving in step. A list of hopeful families with nobody to meet is not a marketplace.
Opening first in the Netherlands
Au pairs and host families find each other directly — no agency deciding for you, no four-figure fee before you have met anyone. We are opening one corridor at a time, and the Netherlands is first.
The two sides need different things, so they get different flows from the first click.
A marketplace with ten countries and four people in each is useless to everybody in it. One corridor, built until both sides are deep enough that the next person who arrives finds someone worth meeting.
We open a corridor when au pairs and families are arriving in step. A list of hopeful families with nobody to meet is not a marketplace.
Pocket money, host family costs, insurance, the sponsor fee — against daycare and a nanny. No surprises three months in.
What the visa asks of you, what the family owes you, what the year actually looks like — written down before you commit to anything.