An executive assistant costs about $82,000 a year once salary and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee triages the executive's inbox, drafts replies, flags what needs attention, coordinates complex calendars, and schedules meetings across time zones, for a fraction of that.
*A shift is a focused block of work, roughly 2,000 credits (about $20 at standard rates). One shift every working day, 250 days a year, comes to about $5,000 a year; actual cost scales with how much it works.
Five things a executive assistant does every day, handled on demand.
Manage and triage the executive's inbox, drafting replies and flagging what needs attention.
Coordinate complex calendars, schedule meetings across time zones, and resolve conflicts.
Prepare briefing documents and pre-read materials ahead of meetings.
Take meeting notes and turn them into action items and follow-ups.
Book travel and build detailed itineraries.
Copy, paste, and adapt. Each one comes back as a finished artifact.
“Take these 40 minutes of meeting notes and turn them into a one-page summary with decisions, action items by owner, and a follow-up email for the team.”
Delivers: a PDF summary plus a ready-to-send email draft
“Here are 12 calendar invites for next week. Find the conflicts, suggest a resolution for each, and draft a rescheduling note I can send.”
Delivers: a conflict report with proposed fixes and draft messages
“Build a travel itinerary for my Tuesday to Thursday trip to Chicago: flights, hotel near the venue, and a day-by-day schedule with buffer time.”
Delivers: a formatted itinerary PDF
“Turn this stack of 18 receipts into an expense report grouped by category with totals and a summary line for accounting.”
Delivers: an expense spreadsheet with categorized totals
“Draft a briefing doc for my 2pm with the Acme team: who they are, our history with them, open items, and three questions I should ask.”
Delivers: a one-page briefing PDF
Founders hand off the repetitive executive assistant work and get back finished deliverables, so they can focus on what only they can do.
Small teams point CellCog AI Employee at the executive assistant work no one owns, so output stays consistent and no longer waits on one person.
Agencies produce executive assistant deliverables across many clients at once, growing capacity without adding headcount.
Knowing when to lean on a person is the whole point.
A human EA senses when you are stressed and quietly reprioritizes your day.
Smoothing a conflict with an important client by phone is a human relationship task.
When priorities truly collide, a trusted human makes the judgment call.
Hiring an executive assistant is valuable, and expensive. Here is how it compares for the production-heavy parts of the job.
| Human Executive Assistant | CellCog AI Employee | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | ~$82,000/yr fully loaded | ≈ $5,000/yr* |
| Availability | Business hours | Works shifts on demand, any hour |
| Ramp-up time | 2 to 4 weeks | Instant |
| Output formats | A few document types | Reports, PDFs, slides, spreadsheets, images, video, audio, dashboards, interactive apps |
| Scalability | One person, one task at a time | Parallel tasks |
| Sick days and turnover | Yes | Never |
| Onboarding | Recruiting and training | Goals, access, and approvals |
| Inbox coverage | One person's working hours | Triage anytime, drafts ready when you wake |
| Time-zone handling | Limited | Schedules across any time zone instantly |
| Confidentiality | Trust built over time | Data stays yours, used only for your work |
*A shift is a focused block of work, roughly 2,000 credits (about $20 at standard rates). One shift every working day, 250 days a year, comes to about $5,000 a year; actual cost scales with how much it works.
It spots conflicts, proposes resolutions, and drafts the messages to fix them. You approve the changes, so it does the legwork while you keep control.
It works from what you connect, so the more access it has to past notes and emails, the more its briefings reflect your real history.
Yes, once you connect your inbox and approve. Sensitive sends route to you first, so nothing goes out without your sign-off.
Your data stays yours and is used only to do your work. You control what you connect and can disconnect anytime.
A scheduling tool just books slots. CellCog AI Employee handles the wider EA job: briefings, expenses, travel, correspondence, and research.
An executive assistant costs about $82,000 a year once salary and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee works in shifts of roughly 2,000 credits (about $20 each); one shift every working day, 250 days a year, comes to about $5,000.
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