Everything we know,
written down.
What a Digital Employee is, what it costs, how it compares to hiring someone or buying a ChatGPT seat, how access and approvals work, and how to train a team that has the tools but not the habits. Written to be useful whether or not you ever book a call.
New to the idea? These two answer the questions everybody asks first, in the order they ask them: what is it, and what does it cost?
What is an AI Digital Employee?
The full definition: what it does, how approval-first guardrails work, what it costs, and what it is not.
Read the definitionHow much does an AI employee cost?
$7,000/month, published. What that includes, how it compares to the alternatives, and when it is not worth it.
Read the cost breakdownHonest side-by-sides against the three things we actually get weighed against: a new hire, a virtual assistant, and a ChatGPT subscription. Each one wins somewhere, and we say where.
AI employee vs. hiring
Cost, ramp time, coverage, management overhead, and the cases where a human hire is still the right call.
Read the comparisonAI employee vs. virtual assistant
Where a VA genuinely wins, where a managed Digital Employee wins, and how the two combine.
Read the comparisonAI Digital Employee vs. ChatGPT
When trained people with tools are enough, and the signals that mark the line in practice.
Read the comparisonWhat a Digital Employee does between nine and five, starting with the Executive Skill Pack and expanding from there.
The AI executive assistant
Inbox triage, follow-up drafts, calendar visibility, briefings, reporting, and open-loop tracking, hour by hour.
Read the use caseAI employee for sales follow-up
Qualifying inbound leads, chasing quiet threads, reviving stale pipeline, and keeping the CRM honest.
Read the use caseFor teams who need their people trained before anything gets automated, and for anyone asking the right questions about access and control.
How to train employees to use AI
The six-step playbook behind the Live AI Workshop: fluency, role-specific workflows, practice, policy, roadmap.
Read the playbookSecurity and permissions
OAuth-scoped access, approval-first guardrails, data boundaries, ownership, and the questions to ask any AI vendor.
Read the security guideThe Live AI Workshop
Corporate AI training, customized to your business: $5,000 virtual (4 hours) or $10,000 in person (6 hours).
See the workshopInteractive tools that turn these guides into your numbers, your task list, and your policy.
Follow-up leak calculator
Put an annual dollar figure on repeatable work and compare it to the $84,000/year Digital Employee.
Run the numbersAI employee fit quiz
Nine questions, an honest verdict: Digital Employee, workshop first, or not yet.
Take the quizCompany AI policy generator
A copy-ready AI use policy for your team in two minutes: tools, approvals, data boundaries.
Generate your policyQuick answers and plain English definitions.
Common questions about Standin
Pricing, workshop format, secure access, approval guardrails, client fit, and how Digital Employees are managed.
Read the FAQAI Digital Employee glossary
Plain English definitions for Digital Employees, OAuth, approval workflows, AI governance, and more.
Read the glossaryAll services and pricing
The $7,000/month managed AI Digital Employee and both Live AI Workshop formats, side by side.
View servicesWhen you want this run against your own numbers, we're here.
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