How much does an AI employee cost?

The short answer

At Client Gravity, AI employees are part of Enterprise, which starts at $20,000 a month. It is priced as a share of the payroll we save you, with a 6-month minimum, and it includes everything in Lead Gen, so new business keeps coming in while your costs go down.

That means the useful question is not “what is the sticker price?” It is “what is the gap between what I pay for AI and the payroll I stop paying?” Our goal for every client is to cut payroll in half, and your free payroll audit shows your number before you sign anything.

What you are really comparing

A person on payroll costs a lot more than the salary on the offer letter. When you price a role, count all of it:

• Salary plus payroll taxes, benefits and tools. This is the number we use in every payroll audit.
• Hiring and ramp time. Weeks to find someone, then weeks before they are fully productive.
• Coverage. A full-time hire covers about 40 hours a week. Nights, weekends and sick days are gaps.
• Overtime and turnover. When people leave, you pay to hire and train all over again.

An AI employee is built and trained on your business once, then works every hour of every day. There is no overtime, no sick days and no turnover, and we improve the work every week.

Real numbers, not projections

We ran it on ourselves before we sold it to anyone. Every role on our own team now runs on AI, with the same output.

What drives the price

Every Enterprise build is custom. These are the things that move the number:

• How many roles AI takes over. One seat is a different build than a whole department.
• How complex each role is. Front desk and follow-up go live fastest. Skilled roles, like the senior engineer one client replaced, take more building.
• Outbound volume. Lead gen is included and priced by volume, up to 1,000,000 people a month on phones reserved only for you.
• Locations and brands. Multi-location and multi-brand rollouts cost more than a single office.
• Your tools. We build inside the CRM, calendar, phone system, email and accounting software you already use.

Example math

Count the people doing work that repeats every day and multiply by what each one costs you a month, including payroll taxes, benefits and tools.

Example: 5 people at $6,000 a month each is $30,000 a month, or $360,000 a year, of payroll you could hand to AI. That is example math, not a promise. Your real number depends on your team and which roles we take over. Try the payroll calculator with your own numbers.

If the payroll AI could take over is well below $20,000 a month, start with Lead Gen, from $5,000 a month. Many clients grow into Enterprise.

How to get your real number

Every engagement starts with a free payroll audit. We go role by role, show you what AI can take over and what you would save, and set your price from there. You sign the agreement before any payment, and nothing changes on your team until you have seen the AI do the work.