Hire AI Employees — the Digital FTE Catalog
An AI employee (Digital FTE) is an AI worker built from a written role specification, encoded with your domain knowledge, connected to your tools, and supervised by humans. Neuralex Labs maintains a catalog of 40+ enterprise roles — AI Receptionist, AI SDR, AI Support Agent, AI Bookkeeper — each delivered done-for-you and running in your business within weeks.
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Roles in the catalog
AI Receptionist
Answers calls and messages 24/7, books appointments, and routes urgent cases — the flagship role for clinics and service businesses.
AI SDR (Sales Development)
Qualifies inbound leads, personalizes outreach, and books meetings directly into your team's calendar.
AI Support Agent
Resolves customer questions on WhatsApp, email, and web chat with your knowledge base — escalating with full context.
AI Bookkeeper
Categorizes transactions, reconciles accounts, chases receipts, and prepares month-end summaries for review.
AI Recruiter
Screens applications against your rubric, schedules interviews, and keeps candidates warm with timely updates.
AI Operations Analyst
Tracks KPIs, compiles daily briefings, and flags anomalies across your dashboards and spreadsheets.
How hiring an AI employee works
Hiring an AI employee takes four steps: pick a role from the catalog on a discovery call, we configure the pre-built role spec with your knowledge and tools, run QA and acceptance testing, then launch in review mode where humans approve outputs until reliability is proven. Deployment typically takes 2–4 weeks.
Choose the role
A 30-minute discovery call to match your bottleneck to a catalog role — or spec a custom role if none fits.
Knowledge intake
We encode your SOPs, FAQs, tone, and edge-case rules into the role specification.
Configure & test
The worker is connected to your tools and tested against real historical cases before launch.
Live in review mode
Humans approve every output at first; autonomy expands as the worker proves reliable. Flat monthly pricing throughout.
AI employee vs human hire vs outsourcing (typical, per role)
| AI Employee (Digital FTE) | Human Hire | Outsourced/BPO | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Availability | 24/7, no leave | 40 hrs/week | Shift-based |
| Ramp-up time | 2–4 weeks | 2–3 months typical | 4–8 weeks |
| Monthly cost | Flat subscription (USD) | Salary + benefits + overhead | Per-seat contract |
| Consistency | Same spec every time | Varies by person/day | Varies by agent |
| Scales instantly | Yes | New hiring cycle | Contract renegotiation |
Frequently asked questions
What is a Digital FTE / AI employee?
A Digital FTE (Full-Time Equivalent) is an AI employee: an AI worker built from a written spec, encoded with your domain knowledge, connected to your tools, and supervised by humans. It runs continuously and does real work in your business — answering calls, qualifying leads, reconciling books — not demos.
How much does an AI employee cost compared to hiring?
An AI employee costs a flat monthly subscription — typically a fraction of a full-time salary once benefits, overhead, and management time are counted. It works 24/7 without leave, ramps in 2–4 weeks instead of months, and scales without a new hiring cycle. Exact pricing is quoted per role on a discovery call.
How long does it take to deploy an AI employee?
Typical deployment is 2–4 weeks. Each catalog role starts from a pre-built specification, so delivery is configuration — knowledge intake, tool connection, QA, and acceptance testing — rather than development from scratch. Custom roles outside the catalog take longer for the first delivery.
Will an AI employee replace my staff?
In practice, AI employees absorb the repetitive volume — after-hours calls, first-touch triage, data entry — so human staff handle judgment, relationships, and exceptions. Most clients redeploy people to higher-value work rather than cutting headcount; the AI takes the shifts nobody wants.
What if the AI employee makes a mistake?
Every Digital FTE launches in review mode: a human approves each output until the worker earns autonomy. Actions are logged, guardrails block out-of-scope behavior, and uncertain cases escalate to humans automatically. Reliability is proven with data before supervision is reduced.
Can I get a role that isn't in the catalog?
Yes. If the role can be specified in writing — inputs, outputs, tools, and rules — Neuralex Labs can manufacture it. Custom roles take somewhat longer for the first delivery and are then added to the catalog library for faster future deployment.
Which businesses do AI employees work best for?
Any business with repetitive, communication-heavy workflows: clinics and healthcare practices, agencies, e-commerce, professional services, real estate, and SaaS. If a role has clear inputs, tools, and rules — reception, SDR, support, bookkeeping — a Digital FTE can run it under supervision.
Related resources
- AI Receptionist — the flagship Digital FTE
- AI employee vs human hire: full cost comparison
- What is a Digital FTE? The complete guide
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