AI Employees

An employee who already knows the job on day one.

Not a chatbot. Not an app. A trained worker, set up inside your own account, that does one real job for your business — your inbox, your books, your estimates, your customer questions — the way you'd train a person to do it, except the training is finished before it ever touches your work.

Start with the spec call How hiring one works

The work

Watch what it does

Our first employees are in training now, in the founding cohort. Each one is trained for a job like these — and has to pass its exam before it starts:

• Answers your inbox like your best person would

  It reads every message, answers the routine ones in your voice, and brings you the ones that need a human — with a draft ready.

• Books the jobs and keeps the calendar honest

  New request comes in, it checks the schedule, offers times, confirms, and reminds the customer the day before.

• Keeps your books tidy

  Receipts sorted, invoices chased, the pile your bookkeeper hates — handled weekly, with a list of anything it wasn't sure about.

• Builds your estimates from your price sheet

  Your prices, your markup, your rules. It never invents a number — if it's not on your sheet, it asks.

• Answers the questions your customers ask at 9 p.m.

  Hours, prices, directions, "where's my order" — answered right, every time, in your words.

That's the job description. If you want to see one work on your kind of job before you decide anything, ask — we'll show you, on real work like yours.

The exam

It has to pass an exam before it works for you. In writing.

Every employee we deliver is trained on examples of the job done right, then tested against a written exam built for your job — real situations, scored pass/fail. It has to beat an untrained AI by a set margin or it doesn't start. You get the score sheet. It's the delivery receipt: proof the worker can do the job, on paper, before the second half of your setup fee is even due.

Hard stops

The lines it never crosses

Your employee is built with hard stops, agreed with you before training starts:

• It never signs anything.
• It never spends money or moves money.
• It never promises a price that isn't on your sheet.
• It never shares your business's information anywhere.
• When it isn't sure, it asks a person instead of guessing — and you'll see exactly how in the handover.

Ownership

It's yours. It lives in your account.

The employee works in your own AI account, under your name — not on our computers, not rented from us by the hour. Your passwords never touch us: not at setup, not ever. We set it up with you, in one guided session, and you watch it work on your real jobs before we call it delivered.

You also get a plain-English charter — what it does, what it doesn't do, how to talk to it, how to correct it. If it's ever wrong, you can see why and fix the instruction, the way you'd correct any employee. In writing.

The process

How hiring one works

1. We spec the job together

   One call. We write down the ten things it does every day, the five judgment calls, and the hard stops — from how your business actually runs. One page, plain English, agreed by both sides.

2. We train it and test it

   Your examples become its training; then it takes its exam. You don't pay the delivery half until it passes.

3. We hand it over, live

   It loads into your account while you watch, then runs your real work — yesterday's inbox, a real estimate — with you reading every word before anything goes out.

4. It keeps getting better, or stays exactly as approved

   On the care plan, its real work (only with your written OK) becomes next month's training round — every update has to pass the same exam before it lands, and any update can be rolled back in minutes. Cancel care and it keeps working, frozen at the last version you approved. It's your account. We can't switch it off, and we wouldn't.

Your time in all of this: one call, one setup session, and reading the score sheet.

Pricing

What it costs

An AI employee is a setup fee plus a monthly care plan — and the setup's second half isn't due until the employee passes its exam and you've watched it work.

And if the job you have in mind is really three fixed workflows rather than a trained employee, we'll tell you on the call — our automation package is $3,000 setup with a $99/month care plan, and we'd rather sell you the cheaper right thing.

Who's behind it

Two owners. One crew. Receipts for everything.

Cooper River Trading Co. (CRTC LLC) is a Mount Pleasant, South Carolina software company — created and founded by Chris Hale, Automated Systems Engineer, with Ashley Hale as Business Manager. It is theirs together. The same crew that builds our apps trains your employee, and the same rule runs both: nothing counts without proof.

Ready to see one work? Ask for a demo on a job like yours — or start with the spec call and see the job written down before you spend anything.