AI Employee: all 17 products
Sold as a person: a named worker that takes over a function such as outreach, support, social posting or the running of a one-person business. We found 17 products that do this, from 17 companies. Of these, 11 can be bought with a sign-up form and six are sold through a sales call. Of the 17, 12 publish a price. Monthly plans in US dollars run $16 to $250, typically $39.
The 17 products
| Compare | Product | What it does on its own | Built for | How you buy | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HighLevel | Answers the phone and the messages for a business inside the CRM it already runs. In the vendor’s words: “Speech-to-Speech Voice AI lets your agent hear audio and respond with audio through a single realtime model” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $50 a month per location | |
| Relevance AI | Runs teams of AI agents that carry a business process from signal to finished work with no person in the loop. In the vendor’s words: “Your team executes end to end, autonomously, against every signal in your pipeline, around the clock.” Where it says AI does it: “Your team executes end to end, autonomously, against every signal in your pipeline, around the clock.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 27, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | Not published | |
| AiSDR | Emails prospects, answers their replies and books the meeting in your calendar. In the vendor’s words: “AiSDR qualifies replies and books meetings” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 27, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $250 a month | |
| 11x | Prospects, answers the replies it gets and puts meetings on the calendar without a rep in the loop. In the vendor’s words: “Continuously prospects, handles replies, and schedules meetings to build you pipeline 24/7” Where it says AI does it: “Built on breakthrough AI agent research to book you meetings autonomously from day one” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sales call | Not published | |
| Artisan | Finds prospects, sends the outreach and books meetings into a rep’s calendar. In the vendor’s words: “Ava, the AI BDR, books meetings for your reps autonomously.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sales call | Not published | |
| Cognition | Takes an engineering task, does the work and puts up the code change for review. In the vendor’s words: “Devin runs in the cloud or on your machine, tests in its own browser, and won’t stop until the PR is ready to merge” Where it says AI does it: “Meet Devin, your team’s autonomous software engineer” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 26, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $20 a month | |
| Cykel AI · : United Kingdom | Finds leads, sends the messages, follows up and books the meeting. In the vendor’s words: “…sends them via email and LinkedIn, follows up automatically and books meetings directly into your calendar” Source for the vendor’s words (opens in a new tab) Where it says AI does it: “I’m your 24/7 AI sales agent. I help sales teams accelerate their sales cycle by automating prospecting, outreach and follow-ups.” Source for where it says AI does it (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $79 a month | |
| HUMALIKE | Sits in the team’s Slack, picks up work across the connected tools and finishes tasks nobody asked for. In the vendor’s words: “I’ll handle tasks proactively and flag what needs your attention.” Where it says AI does it: “I’m Jared, your new AI employee. Connected to your stack, reading through everything now. I’ll handle tasks proactively and flag what needs your attention.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $100 a month | |
| Lyzr AI | Works the sales leads, runs the outreach and updates the CRM. In the vendor’s words: “Jazon executes, measures, and comes back with insights.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Larger organizations | Sales call | $0.08 an agent run | |
| Knowlix · : Germany | Updates project plans from your email, joins meetings and turns the notes into tasks. In the vendor’s words: “…updates project plans based on your emails, joins your meetings, and turns the notes into actions” Where it says AI does it: “It combines AI chat, CRM, invoicing, expenses, projects, inventory, email marketing, scheduling, and purchasing in one place, run by an AI Teammate that handles back-office work.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Small business | Sign up yourself | $24.90 a month per user | |
| Lindy | Handles email, scheduling and follow-up in your tools as a standing teammate. In the vendor’s words: “Lindy connects to all your tools, knows everything about your company, and does real work for the whole team.” Where it says AI does it: “The AI teammate that will 3x your output.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 29, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $29.99 a month per user | |
| MadeThis | Runs the marketing, sales, support and day-to-day operations of a one-person business. In the vendor’s words: “MadeThis gives you a team of AI employees that build, market, and run your business” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Small business | Sales call | $49 a month | |
| Marblism | Runs named AI workers that answer the phone, book appointments, post to your social accounts and send outreach. In the vendor’s words: “Run your emails, website, socials, SEO, calls, lead gen and support.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 27, 2026 | Small business | Sign up yourself | $24 a month billed yearly | |
| NinjaTech AI | Runs agents on their own cloud machines that read and write back into your connected tools and keep long jobs running for days. In the vendor’s words: “Your agents query your tools, write back to them, and orchestrate workflows across all of them.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | Free tier | |
| Riviera | Handles guest requests end to end and logs the outcome without a member of staff touching it. In the vendor’s words: “Riviera handled 23 late check-out requests this week on its own, logging each outcome with zero staff involvement.” Where it says AI does it: “AI agents that handle calls, dining orders, and reservations in any language, around the clock.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size, hospitality | Sales call | Not published | |
| Sintra AI | Runs role-shaped helpers that take over a function such as support or social posting. In the vendor’s words: “Each is designed to take ownership of a specific function” Where it says AI does it: “An AI employee is a specialized digital assistant designed to take ownership of real business functions like SEO, customer support, or sales management, rather than just answering questions like a basic chatbot.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 26, 2026 | Small business | Sign up yourself | $15.60 a month | |
| Walter | Reads incoming documents, checks the data and writes it into the business system itself. In the vendor’s words: “Walter reads documents, captures and validates data, and integrates it directly into your ERP system.” Where it says AI does it: “Offload paperwork to AI Employee Walter” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sales call | Not published |
What to know before you buy
- These are sold as a named worker, but most do a job other parts of this map already cover, such as sales outreach or answering calls. Compare against those products too.
- You set it up like software, not like a hire. The vendor that sells a product literally called AI Employee says it needs setup and ongoing human oversight.
- 5 of the 17 publish no price and 6 are sold only through a sales call, so you often cannot compare the cost against a salary before a call.
- Some pause or ask before important actions, such as a daily safety cap that stops the agent partway through the day. Ask what limits it has.
- In reviews, credits running out fast is the sharpest complaint, in one case within a day.
More from our research
How real (from our first round of research)
Many products in this job do a job that other jobs on this map already cover, sold under a person’s name. Of the 9 we checked in the first round, 4 do cold sales outreach and 3 of those carry a person’s first name. One is a CRM add-on that is a voice agent and a chat agent sold as a person; and one is the same product that appears under AI Agent Builder. The acting is real in 8 of the 9 we checked, with published wording including booking meetings for your reps autonomously, sending outreach by email and social and booking meetings directly into your calendar, and planning and executing complex engineering tasks. What the marketing gets wrong is the idea that you are hiring somebody, and the vendor that literally sells a product called AI Employee says so in its own disclaimer, that the AI features are software functionality only and require setup, configuration and ongoing human oversight.
Watch for
You do not hire this the way you hire a person, because you have to set it up first. One vendor’s own reply to an unhappy buyer explains that the initial setup is a more involved period because the product needs information about the business. On the map, 5 of the 17 publish no price and 6 are sold only through a sales call, so you often cannot compare the cost against a salary before a call. Of the three newest products, all publish a price and all act, and one publishes a limit on what it does unasked: it asks you to approve any business-critical action first. Another documents a daily safety cap that pauses the agent for the rest of the day once reached, so it can stop partway through a working day.
What reviewers raise
The complaints are about credits rather than about what the product can do, and they are sharpest where the product is sold to the smallest buyers. One reviewer says the included credits would run out in a day.
Questions to ask in the demo
- Does an AI do this, or does a rule? If the answer is “when X happens it sends Y”, you are buying automation, and it should not cost AI prices.
- Does it send, or does it draft? Ask for the sentence on their page that says it acts on its own.
- Does it do it on its own on this plan, or on the one above? The setting that lets it act without you is often a tier up from the entry price.
Quick answers
How many AI products are there for hiring an AI worker?
We found 17 products from 17 companies that do this themselves. 11 can be bought with a sign-up form and 6 through a sales call.
How much does an AI Employee cost?
Monthly plans priced in US dollars run $16 to $250, typically $39 a month. 12 of 17 publish a price. Check the monthly cap and what extra use costs.
Which ones are built for small businesses?
4 say on their own site that they are built for small businesses: Knowlix, MadeThis, Marblism AI Employees, Sintra AI employees. Most others name no size and may still suit you.
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Cite this
AI Employee: all 17 products. The AI Agents Report, Iterategy, 2026. https://iterategy.com/research/ai-agents/jobs/ai-employee/