My AI Workforce: Eight Employees
Eight AI employees run my business: leads, websites, inbox, ads, content, video, HR, and bookkeeping. Who does what, and what I still do myself.
Read the articleYour first AI employee
Hire your first AI employee
Within one hour you hold its first work result in your hands. With Claude, without a single line of code. Not a chatbot you prompt, but an employee you manage.
What is an AI employee?
An AI employee is an AI you manage like an employee: it has a clearly defined job, knows your business from its personnel file, and reliably delivers finished work. The difference from a chatbot: you don’t write a new prompt for every task. You brief it once properly, onboard it, and delegate from then on.
That is exactly why the language of a real hire works: there is an onboarding conversation, a trial task, and a permanent position once the job runs repeatably. It may sound like a gimmick, but it is the core idea: treat your AI like an employee and you get results like an employee’s.
Chatbot, AI agent, AI employee: the difference
| Chatbot | AI agent | AI employee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you work with it | You prompt every task from scratch | You build a workflow and maintain it | You brief once, give feedback, delegate |
| Knowledge about your business | Forgets after every chat | Scattered across the workflow | Personnel file: collected, maintained, grows with you |
| Result | Text you rework yourself | Automated single steps | Finished work ready for approval |
| When something changes | You prompt differently | You rebuild the flow | You tell it, like you would an employee |
The path: from hour 1 to your AI team
No prompting course, no learning buffet. You start with a ready-made package and go deeper at your own pace.
HOUR 1
Quick start
Load the package, hold the onboarding conversation, first work result in your hands. Your employee asks on its own what it needs to know.
DAY 30
Permanent position
The job runs repeatably every week. The craft behind it comes from the 30-day path: deeper learning, never mandatory.
DAY 90
Your AI team
Several employees from ready-made packages: content, proposals, office, calls, leads, website.
Eight ready-made AI employees. Or build your own.
Every package is a ready-to-work employee you simply load: hold the onboarding conversation, let it work.
Anton
Proposals and invoices
Frieda
Your office: inbox, appointments, receipts
Gustav
Turns your calls into playbooks and content
Susi
Your ads, from research to reporting
Conny
Content editor-in-chief for your channel
Olaf
Lead scout: finds and qualifies clients
Ralf
Turns outdated websites into modern demos
Sonja
Assistant: emails in your voice
I don’t just talk about AI employees. I employ them.
My own business runs on an AI workforce of eight employees. They handle content, receipts and client projects. Everything I show in the community runs here in my daily work first.
OlafLead scout: finds local businesses with outdated websites and qualifies them
RalfWebsite optimizer: builds modern one-pagers on his own
SonjaOffice and assistance: prepares new-client emails
SusiContent marketing and Meta ads
ConnyContent editor-in-chief for my Instagram channel
EddiVideographer and editor: video editing and Reels
RonnyHR and methodology: works feedback into the employees
PeterAccountant: matches receipts and reconciles card statements
What awaits you in the community
Over 250 lessons, weekly live calls and ready-made employee packages. Ready to go within an hour, deepen at your own pace.
Who is writing this
I’m Kevin, developer and IT architect. I have written technical books on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructures, I speak at conferences, and for more than ten years I have looked after the systems of companies, from family businesses to large corporations.
For the past 1.5 years I haven’t written a single line of code myself. My AI workforce takes over the repeatable jobs, and I manage them: briefing, onboarding, giving feedback. That is exactly the craft I pass on in the community.
You can find more about my work as an IT architect on the home page.
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Read the articleFrequently asked questions about AI employees
What is an AI employee?
An AI employee is an AI you manage like an employee: it has a clearly defined job, knows your business from its personnel file, and reliably delivers finished work. You don't write a new prompt for every task. You brief it once properly and delegate from then on.
What is the difference between an AI agent and an AI employee?
An AI agent is a technical building block: an automated process that operates tools. An AI employee is the management perspective on top of it: a permanent role with a name, a personnel file, onboarding and feedback. The technology underneath can be an agent. What matters is that you manage it like an employee instead of operating it like a tool.
Do I need programming skills for an AI employee?
No. Your first AI employee is created directly in the Claude app: you load a ready-made package, hold an onboarding conversation, and your employee asks on its own what it needs to know about your business. Without a single line of code.
Which tasks can an AI employee take over?
Anything with a repeatable process: preparing proposals and invoices, sorting your inbox, matching receipts, analyzing calls, drafting content, researching ads, finding and qualifying leads, or building website drafts. Final approval always stays with you.
How long does it take to hire an AI employee?
You hold the first work result in your hands after about an hour. After that comes onboarding at your own pace: after 30 days the job runs repeatably, which I call the permanent position. If you keep going, you have a small AI team after 90 days.
Which AI do the employees run on?
On Claude by Anthropic. You start in the Claude app and expand via Claude Code once your employee should connect to your systems and files.
Does an AI employee replace human employees?
An AI employee takes over the repeatable jobs that cost you hours every week as a solo business owner. You stay the boss: you brief, give feedback and approve. The point is that your business no longer depends entirely on you as a person.
Your first employee up and running within an hour
Load a ready-made package, hold the onboarding conversation, first result in your hands. The rest is expansion, at your own pace.
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