How to Hire Your First A.I. Employee

Your first AI employee costs a couple hundred dollars a month and can handle research, content, lead capture, onboarding, and follow-up. This episode gives you the exact playbook.

An AI employee is a system that handles a specific role in your business, makes decisions within defined parameters, and produces outputs without your direct involvement. This episode covers the five AI employees every service-based business owner should hire first.

In this episode:

What an AI employee actually is (and how agents change the game)
AI Employee 1: The Research Analyst (competitive intel, proposal prep, market analysis)
AI Employee 2: The Content Producer (one idea to full multi-platform distribution)
AI Employee 3: The 24-Hour Receptionist (voice agents, agentic chatbots, lead capture while you sleep)
AI Employee 4: The Onboarding Specialist (intake, welcome sequences, payment processing)
AI Employee 5: The Follow-Up Manager (lead nurturing, post-event sequences, pipeline management)
The real cost comparison: at least $50/hour for a living wage employee vs. a couple hundred a month for AI
Why you don't need to earn the right to rest

Resources mentioned:

AI Employee Report (free): audit.seedandsociety.com
Newsletter: newsletter.seedandsociety.com
Claude: claude.ai
Claude Academy (free courses with certifications): https://anthropic.skilljar.com
Lovable (no-code app builder): lovable.dev
Women Build AI (free Skool community by Sabrina Ramonov): Skool.com/womenbuildai
Mic Drop Workshop (Jess Ekstrom's speaker program for women): micdropworkshop.com

Who this is for: Service-based business owners who want to scale without hiring and need to know exactly where to start.

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Makeda Boehm | Seed & Society makedaboehm.com | seedandsociety.com

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