Year-one cost side by side
| Option | Year-one cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Part-time receptionist, 20 h/week | $17.90 x 1,040 h = $18,616 in wages | Plus payroll taxes, training and turnover; covers 20 hours a week |
| Full-time receptionist | $37,230 median wages (BLS) | Plus payroll taxes and any benefits; covers about 40 of 168 weekly hours |
| Self-serve AI tool | About $600 to $3,600 a year on published plans | You configure, monitor and fix it |
| AImploy.ai Starter | $495 + 12 x $195 = $2,835 in year one | Built, connected and monitored for you; you approve what it sends |
| AImploy.ai Pro | $1,500 + 12 x $595 = $8,640 in year one | More workflows and connections |
Wage figures are BLS national medians. Self-serve range is from published plans of Rosie ($49/mo) to Goodcall Scale ($299/mo), checked October 20, 2026.
What the numbers leave out
- For a hire: recruiting time, employer payroll taxes, benefits, training, sick days and turnover.
- For AI: your time approving replies in the first weeks, keeping its facts current, and the cost of a wrong answer. That is why we start with approval on every outgoing message.
- Coverage: a full-time person covers about 40 of the 168 hours in a week. An AI employee replies at 9 PM on a Sunday.
When hiring is the better choice
- The job is mostly in person: greeting visitors, giving tours, handling payments at a desk.
- Most requests need judgment you cannot write down as rules.
- You have enough volume to keep a person busy and want them to grow into other roles.
Often the right answer is both: a person for the people work, an AI employee for nights, weekends and follow-up.
How AImploy.ai prices
Starter is $495 setup plus $195 a month, Pro is $1,500 plus $595 a month, and Workforce starts at $3,500 plus $1,500 a month. Founding Starter customers keep $195 a month locked for 12 months. You can cancel the monthly plan whenever you want, and your blueprint stays with you. See pricing or build your free blueprint first.
Sources
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Receptionists, Occupational Outlook Handbook (May 2024)
- Rosie pricing and Goodcall pricing, checked October 20, 2026
How we wrote this
We build AI employees for a living, so we have a point of view. Where a point favors us, we say so. We have no customer results to publish yet, so we publish none: every claim on these pages is either reasoning you can check, a fact about how our own product works, or a clearly labeled example.
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