07/10/2026
Hiring does not create capacity when every answer still lives in your head.
And that's the same answer whether you are hiring an actual person or "hiring an AI Employee".
If you're are the only one that knows what's going on in your process or how you want to work, no person or thing will be able to help make it easier for you!
Before you go hiring a new team member or downloading the latest AI Employee set, set up some baseline foundations that will give them some information about where to start:
• Where can they find the information they need? A Google Drive folder? A special cowork folder on your desktop?
• What is the list of tasks that you are expecting them to help you with?
• Make a short video of how you perform the task, so they can repeat it and "act like you"
None of it needs to be perfect. It will 100% change as you grow your relationship with your new Person or Bot Employee. To start, it just needs to be usable and out of your head!
If your onboarding process = your new team member interrupting you every time they reach the next step, you have not delegated the workload. You have added another communication channel you have to manage.
Build the foundation first. Then hire or code someone into it.
Send this to the founder who is about to post a job for their next VA or start a new AI Bot project for their next hire.