Four honest answers.
Every one of these is a real question a buyer asks before a first call, and each page answers it the way we would on the call — including the part where the alternative is the better tool.
Both answer in a chat window. Only one can open the ledger, act in your systems on scoped permissions, and leave a record of what it did.
Read the comparison →HIRING A PERSONCost, ramp, hours and judgement — and a plain account of the work that should still go to a person.
Read the comparison →NO-CODE AUTOMATIONRules and triggers do the described path perfectly. An employee handles the exception — and says so when it is unsure.
Read the comparison →DOING NOTHINGThe status quo is the strongest competitor there is. What it costs, where it hides, and when to leave it alone.
Read the comparison →How these pages are written
No competitor is named. The alternatives are described by their shape — a general chat assistant, rules-and-triggers automation, a new hire, the way you do it now — because the argument is about categories of tool, and naming a brand would only make it about something else.
Every page concedes. Each one carries a section on where the alternative wins, and it is not a token: there are cases in all four where the honest recommendation is to keep what you have. A comparison that cannot name one is an advertisement.
No new numbers. The only figures on these pages are the ones the rest of this site already stands behind — the price per AI employee on shift, the median time to a first employee, the cover, the trial. No hours saved, no error rates, no customer logos.
What is true in all four
An AI employee is a named role on shift, not a script. It owns an outcome, asks when it is unsure, and reports what it did. Whichever alternative you are weighing it against, the same four things come with it:
- Credentials scoped per system — read, write or send, granted by you, revocable immediately.
- A working memory of your business, from your documents and connected systems, with no onboarding period.
- Approval checkpoints you name, so a person decides anything with a consequence before it happens.
- A log of every action with its inputs, sources, reasoning trail and output — replayable, and exportable to your SIEM.
Still deciding
Read what each role actually handles on a shift, check the price per employee, or tell us the process that eats your team’s week and we will tell you which of these four you are really choosing between.