A full-time virtual assistant costs about $67,000 a year once pay and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee manages the inbox, the calendar, the research, and the follow-ups, works any hour you need, and never splits its attention across other clients, for a fraction of that.
*Usage-based: a shift is a focused block of work at about $25. One shift every weekday comes to about $550 a month (~$6,600 a year); a full-time employee runs $500–1,000 a month depending on how hard it works.
Five things a virtual assistant does every day, handled on demand.
Triage the inbox, draft replies in your voice, and make sure nothing that needs an answer goes quiet.
Schedule meetings, resolve conflicts across time zones, and protect your focus time.
Compare vendors, find the best option, fill out the forms, and come back with a recommendation, not a list of links.
Draft, format, and organize documents, keep trackers current, and move data between systems without transcription errors.
Plan trips end to end: flights, hotels, day-by-day itineraries, and the confirmations filed where you can find them.
Copy, paste, and adapt. Each one comes back as a finished artifact.
“Go through my inbox from the last week. Draft replies for everything that needs one, flag the three things that actually need my attention, and archive the noise.”
Delivers: a triaged inbox with reply drafts
“Find the best project management tool for a 6-person team under $50 a month. Compare the top options and recommend one.”
Delivers: a vendor comparison with a recommendation
“Plan a 3-day trip to Austin for the conference: flights from JFK, a hotel near the venue, and a day-by-day itinerary.”
Delivers: a complete travel plan
“Turn these meeting notes into a clean summary, a decision log, and a follow-up email to the team.”
Delivers: meeting notes turned into action items
“Build a tracker for our vendor contracts: renewal dates, costs, and owners, and remind me 30 days before each renewal.”
Delivers: a contract tracker with automatic reminders
Founders hand off the inbox, the scheduling, and the digital errands, and get back the hours they were spending on administration.
Small teams share one assistant that handles scheduling, research, documents, and follow-ups for everyone at once.
Operators give each client account its own assistant workflows: trackers kept current, reports on schedule, inboxes answered.
Knowing when to lean on a person is the whole point.
Picking up packages and being somewhere in person still need a human. Anything digital is fair game.
It will draft the difficult email; whether to send it is your call.
Calls still work best human to human. It preps the call, and handles the notes and follow-up after.
Hiring a virtual assistant is valuable, and expensive. Here is how it compares for the production-heavy parts of the job.
| Human Virtual Assistant | CellCog AI Employee | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | ~$67,000/yr fully loaded | from ≈ $6,600/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 |
| Context retention | Depends on notes and tenure | Remembers every preference and past task |
| Task breadth | Admin tasks | Admin plus research, analysis, spreadsheets, dashboards |
| Turnaround | Next business day | Often same hour |
*Usage-based: a shift is a focused block of work at about $25. One shift every weekday comes to about $550 a month (~$6,600 a year); a full-time employee runs $500–1,000 a month depending on how hard it works.
Everything a virtual assistant does on a computer: email triage and drafting, scheduling, research, data entry, document preparation, travel planning, and follow-ups. It also does things most VAs cannot, like building spreadsheets with working formulas, live dashboards, and presentation decks.
A human VA works set hours, splits attention across clients, and takes their knowledge with them when they leave. A CellCog AI Employee works any hour, keeps permanent memory of your preferences and processes, and costs a fraction of a full-time hire.
ChatGPT answers when you prompt it and forgets you between sessions. A CellCog AI Employee is a standing worker: it has its own inbox and task board, remembers everything, starts work on schedules without being prompted, and owns outcomes rather than answering questions.
You choose the access level and the approval rules. Many owners start read-only with draft-for-approval, then expand what it can do on its own as trust builds. Every action is logged.
Yes. It keeps durable memory across every task and conversation: your preferences, your voice, your standing rules. It gets noticeably better in the first weeks, and it never forgets what it learned.
A full-time virtual assistant costs about $67,000 a year once pay and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee is usage-based at about $25 per shift; one shift every weekday comes to about $550 a month, and a full-time employee runs $500–1,000 a month depending on how hard it works.
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Yes. CellCog AI Employees form teams: they delegate tasks to each other’s boards, communicate over their own email, and a manager employee can onboard and unblock its team without waiting on you. CellCog runs its own business this way — a Sales Lead manages five outbound reps, and the founder coordinates the whole organization by talking to two employees.
Hand it your inbox and your calendar and get back a triaged week, drafted replies, and a schedule that finally makes sense.