Episode 5 · April 13, 2026 · 20 min

Hire Your First AI Employee (The Exact Playbook)

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Show Notes

You're the bottleneck in your business. The solution isn't hiring a human you can't afford. It's building an AI employee you can train in a weekend.

An AI employee is a system with a specific role, defined parameters, and consistent output: the research analyst, content producer, onboarding specialist, or follow-up manager your business needs but your budget doesn't allow for.

In this episode:

  • What an AI employee actually is (and how it differs from a general AI subscription)
  • Why you're now competing with humans augmented by AI, and why that changes the math
  • Why small businesses are actually more agile than enterprises in this shift
  • AI Employee 1: The Research Analyst, briefing documents in 30 minutes instead of 6 hours
  • AI Employee 2: The Content Producer: one recording, a week of output across every platform
  • AI Employee 3: The Onboarding Specialist: clients self-onboard, you get a notification
  • AI Employee 4: The Follow-Up Manager, pipelines that move without you touching them
  • Why you should hire AI before you can afford a human (and why it's not cheap labor)
  • The real cost of a living-wage employee vs. $20-50/month in AI tools
  • Why rest is not something you earn, and why AI employees are how you get it
  • Free resources: Claude Academy, Women Build AI, and why paid courses often aren't needed

Who this is for: Service-based business owners who know they need help in their business but can't justify hiring, or who are already at capacity and need to multiply output without multiplying hours.

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Makeda Boehm | Seed and Society
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