- 1 job, written down.
- 70% confidence floor: below it, work comes to a person.
- 8 jobs in the INSTALL book, after the first hire, Email Triage.
What are the parts of an AI employee?
An AI employee has five parts: a written job, the context it reads, the decisions it may make alone, the signal on which it hands to a person, and a log read every Friday.
The first part is the AI employee job description, and the rest hang from it. The show rate work on AI Acquisition's 22 closer floor, which moved from 19% to 43% in about a month, became the confirmation half of the Follow-up job, so which decisions would you write on its may decide alone line today?
The handoff your first AI employee owns, priced on your own numbers.
Click the button.
Answer a few short questions.
Pick a time on Jon's calendar.
How do you test whether something is an AI employee?
If you cannot point to the handoff it owns and the line it reports on Friday, it is a tool. Gamut (21 July 2026) notes no major analyst has published a formal definition, so the test is yours to run on any vendor, and without that line you have a tool with a nicer name, don't you? That line is the difference between using AI vs hiring AI.
How is an AI employee different from an AI agent?
An AI employee is an agent hired into one job, with a written job description, context, boundaries and a weekly read. eesel AI (13 August 2026) describes it as an agent wrapped in a job description and a permission scope; the INSTALL method adds the Friday read that keeps it on the job.
What else do people call an AI employee?
People also call it an AI agent, an AI workforce, a digital employee, an AI SDR or an AI appointment setter. Whatever the label on the box, the five parts decide whether it is one.
Questions people ask about AI employees?
Do AI employees replace people?
They replace the handoffs nobody owned, not the people on either side. Your team keeps its functions and stops holding the joints together by hand.
What is the first AI employee to hire?
Start with the Email Triage AI employee, the INSTALL book's first hire, planned for one evening and judged the next morning.
Can an AI employee work without a job description?
No. Without a written job it is a tool: it waits for you instead of owning a handoff and reporting on Friday.
How many AI employees does a business need?
The INSTALL book names eight jobs in hiring order, after the first hire, Email Triage.