What is a Digital Employee?

A Digital Employee is AI you hire for a job—not another tool your team has to learn. Teach it how your business works. Give it access to the information and approved systems it needs. Set what it can do on its own and what requires approval. Then put it to work handling real work every day.

Not a chatbot. Not another AI window.

A configured member of your workforce that knows its role, knows your business, has the tools and permissions needed to do its job, and works alongside your people.

Typical chatbotStandalone AI toolBotOS Digital Employee
Has a defined jobAnswers whatever it is askedDoes what each person prompts✓ Hired for a specific role
Knows your businessScripted answersOnly what you paste in✓ Taught your knowledge and rules
Takes action in your systemsRarelyYou copy results across✓ Completes tasks in systems we connect for you
Has permissionsNoNo✓ Only what its role needs
Asks for approval and escalatesNoNo✓ Built in, set by you
Works without being promptedWaits for a visitorWaits for a person✓ Handles its work every day

What makes it an employee, not a tool.

AI you hire for a job, not another tool your team has to learn. It knows its role, knows your business and works alongside your people.

01 · Hire it for a job

A role, not a tool

Each Digital Employee has a clear job, like answering calls, researching prospects or handling bookings.

02 · Teach it

How your business works

Your services, policies, documents and the way you like things done.

03 · Give it access

Information and connected systems

The tools and systems its job requires, and nothing more.

04 · Set its authority

What it does alone vs. with approval

You decide where it acts, where it asks first and when it hands off to a person.

Then put it to work, doing real work every day.

Imagine hiring someone who could…

Answer customer calls and questions using your company knowledge

On its own

Research prospects and prepare personalized outreach for your team to approve

Sends after approval

Draft emails and send them once you approve

Sends after approval

Take action in business systems we connect for you, such as making a booking

On its own or with approval

Answer employee questions from your internal knowledge

On its own

Review documents and contracts and surface what needs attention

Flags for review

Log requests and create tickets for your team to follow up

On its own

Recognize when something is outside its authority and hand it to a person

Escalates to a person

What a Digital Employee can do depends on the capabilities it is connected to and the permissions you grant. You decide what it handles on its own, what it asks first and what goes to a person.

Works throughPhone callsChatEmailDocuments & filesWebsite contentBusiness systems we connect for you

What work is consuming your team today?

Most teams carry work that is repeatable, follows your rules and eats hours every week. That is where a Digital Employee starts.

If your team is…

Answering the same customer questions and calls over and over

→
A Digital Employee can

Answer them from your knowledge and hand off anything unusual

If your team is…

Spending hours researching prospects before every outreach

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A Digital Employee can

Research accounts and prepare outreach for your approval

If your team is…

Letting follow-ups slip because nobody has time to write them

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A Digital Employee can

Draft follow-up emails and send them once you approve

If your team is…

Reading through documents and contracts line by line

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A Digital Employee can

Review them and surface the items that need a person

If your team is…

Fielding internal “how do we…” questions all day

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A Digital Employee can

Answer employees from your policies and internal knowledge

If your team is…

Entering bookings, records and updates into business systems by hand

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A Digital Employee can

Complete that work in business systems we connect for you, within its permissions

Not every workflow is a fit. The best first job is work that is repeatable, follows clear rules and has an obvious point where a person should step in. If you are not sure, we will help you choose.

How a Digital Employee gets to work.

Five steps, and you control every one: teach it, connect it, set its permissions, put it to work, then observe and improve.

1

Teach

BotOS learns your company knowledge, products and services, processes, expectations and the instructions for its role.

2

Connect

Give it access to the approved information and business systems its role requires, and nothing more.

3

Set permissions

Define what it may do on its own, what requires human approval and when it must escalate to a person.

4

Put it to work

Deploy it into the channels and workflows that fit its role so it can begin performing real work.

5

Observe & improve

See what it did, review outcomes and exceptions, and improve how it performs over time.

The outcome: value you can see. Because BotOS lets you observe the work your Digital Employee does and the value it delivers, you can prove what it is worth.

Example: permissions for a prospecting Digital Employee

Illustrative. You set these rules.
Research a target account and summarize what mattersOn its own
Draft a personalized outreach emailOn its own
Send that email to the prospectNeeds your approval
A prospect asks for special pricing termsEscalates to a person

Hire a Digital Employee for the work you need done.

Start with a role like Revenue, Customer Service, Operations or Engineering, or configure one around the work your business needs done.

Scout

Revenue Digital Employee
Featured role
What Scout does
  • Researches prospects and target accounts
  • Prepares personalized outreach
  • Sends once your team approves
  • Brings your team in when a conversation needs a person
Works with
Your sales guidelinesResearchEmailYour approval

Customer Service

Digital Employee

Answers customers from your company knowledge, handles routine requests and escalates the rest.

Voice & chatCompany knowledgeEscalation

Operations

Digital Employee

Handles routine tasks such as bookings in business systems we connect for you, and logs what needs a person.

Connected systemsTask execution

Document & Contract

Digital Employee

Reviews documents, flags important terms and prepares summaries your team can act on.

Document reviewSummaries

Engineering

Digital Employee

Searches engineering knowledge and technical documentation, reviews specifications, runs approved calculations with the tools you provide and prepares documentation. Conflicts, exceptions and design decisions go to your engineers.

Technical knowledgeApproved calculationsEngineer sign-off

Configure your own

You are not limited to these roles. Configure a Digital Employee around the job you need done: your company knowledge, the systems and tools it is connected to, the permissions you set and the work it performs.

  1. 1The job it is hired for
  2. 2What it knows about your business
  3. 3The systems and tools it is connected to
  4. 4What it may do on its own or with approval
  5. 5The work it performs every day

What a role can do depends on the systems and tools connected for it. We will be clear about what is possible for your setup. The Engineering role supports licensed engineering judgment; it does not replace it.

Common questions about Digital Employees

What is a Digital Employee?

A Digital Employee is AI you hire for a job, not another tool your team has to learn. You teach it how your business works, give it access to the information and approved systems it needs, set what it can do on its own and what requires approval, then put it to work on real work every day.

How is it different from a chatbot or an AI assistant?

A chatbot waits for questions and an AI assistant waits for someone to prompt it. A Digital Employee has a defined role, is taught your business, and does the work through the channels and systems connected for it, following the permissions you set, including when to ask for approval and when to hand off to a person.

What kind of work can it do?

It can do the work, not just suggest it, within the capabilities it is connected to and the permissions you grant. That includes answering customer calls and questions, researching prospects and preparing outreach, sending emails with your approval, taking action in business systems we connect for you such as creating a booking, reviewing documents and surfacing what needs attention, and answering internal questions.

Not every workflow is a fit. The best first job has clear rules and an obvious point where a person should step in.

How does it learn my business?

You teach it with your own material, such as services, policies, FAQs, documents and website content, plus instructions on how you want things handled. You can correct it and add to its knowledge over time.

Can it work in my existing systems?

It works through the channels and business systems connected for it, and only with the access its role needs. Which systems can be connected depends on your setup, and we connect them for you. If you are unsure about a system you rely on, talk to us first.

What does it do on its own, and what needs my approval?

You decide. Within what it is allowed to do, you choose what it handles on its own, what it prepares and asks a person to approve before proceeding, and what it escalates to your team. You can start narrow and widen its authority as you gain confidence.

How do I get started, and what does it cost?

Choose a plan on the pricing page and select Start Now, or book a demo if you would like help choosing the right first role.

See it for your business

What could a Digital Employee take off your team's plate?

Choose a plan and hire your first Digital Employee, or tell us about the work you want to hand off and we'll show you how it could be taught, connected and governed for your business.

Prefer to talk first? A demo covers

  1. 1The work you want a Digital Employee to take on
  2. 2How it would be taught, connected and given permissions
  3. 3Whether it's the right fit for your business