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AOS vs
Hiring a team.
The right answer 80 percent of the time. Until you do the math.
A great hire beats a great agent for some work. We say so on the front page. But you cannot hire 61 senior operators in 90 days for $2,200.
Capability
Hiring a team
AOS
Cost
$5.3M fully loaded year one
$2,200 + your token usage
Time to staff
14 months
20 minutes
First reviewable work
~12 weeks per role
Same day
What humans do better
Hard customer conversations. In-person sales. Therapy.
Volume. Parallelism. 24/7 cadence.
What AOS does better
Everything else
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When to pick which
Hire when the work is fundamentally human. Install AOS for everything else.
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