The Story
We hired our first AI Employee a month ago.
I run a software engineering firm. We've got a team, active clients, and more things happening at once than I can realistically track. I'm not a small operation — but I was still drowning in the small stuff.
The kind of stuff that doesn't feel important enough to hire for, but adds up to hours every week. Follow-up emails. Quick reports. Pulling data from one tool and putting it in another. Scheduling. Drafting. Researching.
So I tried something: I gave us an AI employee.
What happened in month one:
My team stopped bugging me with small stuff. Not because I told them to — but because they had somewhere else to send it. Someone who could handle it immediately, at any hour, without needing context to be explained twice.
That's the part that surprised me most. It wasn't just that she handled tasks. It's that the tasks stopped reaching me entirely.
Funny thing: This page? Written by my AI employee. While I was in three other meetings. That's what an AI employee actually does.