Chapter 3 — Meet the AI Employees (and the Easiest Hiring Process Ever)

If you’ve ever hired a human employee, you know the process well:

• endless résumés

• interviews that start with “Tell me about yourself”

• reference checks

• onboarding

• someone pretending they “totally know how to use” your systems

• and, of course, the stress of watching them search for the bathroom on Day 1

Now imagine hiring someone who:

• never gets tired

• never gets confused

• never forgets instructions

• never shows up late

• and never eats your yogurt from the office fridge

That’s what Alex experienced in Week 5 of the AI Center of Excellence — the week they officially met the AI Employees.

The Studio98 Team Says: “It’s Time to Hire.”

Alex’s team is gathered for the session, expecting a PowerPoint about agents and data structures.

Instead, the Studio98 trainer smiles and says:

“Today, we’ll build your first AI Employee.”

Silence.
Then a collective blink.

One team member quietly whispers,
“Wait… we get to hire our own AI coworker?”

Another asks,
“Do they need desk space?”

And someone in the back mutters,
“I hope it’s friendlier than Gary from accounting.”

Spoiler: it is.

Choosing the First AI Hire

Studio98 walks them through their workflow map (a.k.a. the map of “all the things nobody wants to do manually anymore”).

Very quickly, the team identifies their biggest pain point:

Admin tasks. All. Day. Long.

Drafting emails.
Organizing notes.
Summarizing calls.
Updating CRM entries.
Rewriting the same instructions 19 different ways.

Alex sighs.
“We need help.”

The Studio98 facilitator smiles:

“Great. Let’s introduce your new Administrative Assistant.”

Building the AI Employee

Instead of résumés, the hiring process goes like this:

1. Define the role

What tasks will the AI Employee take over?
What problems will it solve?

2. Train it on examples

Alex’s team uploads templates, sample messages, brand voice guidelines — everything the AI Employee needs to sound like them.

3. Set boundaries

What the AI Employee handles automatically.
What it should double-check with a human.
What it should NOT touch (like legal documents, emotional client messages, and anything involving math beyond everyone’s comfort zone).

4. Test the work

Alex watches as the Administrative Assistant AI:

• summarizes a meeting in seconds

• drafts an email with perfect tone

• organizes notes into a tidy document

• generates a follow-up task list without being asked

The room falls silent again…
This time from shock.

One employee leans in, whispering,
“Is this how people felt the first time they used a dishwasher?”

A Calm First Day on the Job

Human onboarding:
forms, signatures, awkward introductions, explaining where the stapler is.

AI Employee onboarding:
“Here’s your data. Here’s your role. Let’s begin.”

No fuss.
No drama.
No new-employee small talk like, “So… where’s everyone from?”

The AI Employee just starts working – immediately and confidently.

Alex makes a joke:
“Honestly… this is smoother than hiring my niece last summer.”

Everyone nods.

Even the niece (probably).

Productivity Gains Begin… Instantly

Within minutes, the AI Administrative Assistant is delivering work faster than anyone expected.

The team starts tossing it test tasks like it’s a talent show:

• “Write this email.”

• “Summarize this meeting.”

• “Clean this messy doc.”

• “Draft a follow-up.”

And the AI Employee just… does it.
Calmly.
Correctly.
Without once saying, “Can I take my lunch now?”

End of Chapter 3

Come Back Next Week: “The Day the Team Realized… They Needed More AI Employees.”

Next week’s chapter reveals:

• how the existing AI Employee blew everyone’s expectations away

• the moment Alex realized ONE wasn’t enough

• the birth of the Marketing Assistant, Data Analyst, and Content Creator AI employees

• and how the digital team started saving more time than Alex thought possible

This story is just heating up – see you in Chapter 4!