The plain-language guide to AI workers
Short guides that explain what a digital worker is, how to hire one and which job to start with. No jargon, no code.
Concepts
What the words mean, and which ones matter for a buying decision.
Getting started
Your first digital worker, step by step, on your own tools.
Scenarios
Real jobs, by sector and by the problem they solve.
Concepts
What is a digital worker, and how do you hire one?
A digital worker is software you brief like a colleague: it takes a goal, works out the steps and finishes the job inside the tools you already use.
How much does a digital worker cost?
What the price buys before the price tag: a worker that finishes jobs in your own tools, works within permissions and ignores office hours. The three pricing logics on the market, Botonom's salary model, a worked example and which plan fits which team.
Connecting AI to WhatsApp: the built-in assistant, or a digital worker that finishes the job?
Meta's assistant built into WhatsApp Business, menu-driven ready-made bots and a digital worker side by side: where each one looks, where it stops, which is enough when, and why WhatsApp's 24-hour window and message charges belong on a separate line from the tool's cost.
Getting started
Where do you start with AI in your business? The first seven days
The right starting point is not a tool but a job. How to pick it, a day-by-day plan for the first week, who should run it and the three numbers to keep.
You tried ChatGPT. So who does the work?
A chat window writes well and reads well, but it works between your two hands: no context, no action, no continuity, no accountability. Where an assistant helps, where it stalls, and how the prompts you already write become a worker's job description.
AI support programmes for SMEs in Türkiye: what KOSGEB's credit and the coming voucher actually mean
The '5 million lira of AI support' is an interest-free loan for badge-holding tech startups, the SME AI voucher is a plan target without an application channel yet, and TOBB's support is training. A sourced map of what an ordinary business can use today.
How to hire an AI employee: the checklist
Three decisions on paper before you hire, the two-week onboarding that separates a hire that takes hold from one that quietly dies, three numbers to keep, six criteria for choosing where to hire, and five red flags.
Scenarios
Can't keep up with customer messages? How a digital worker takes over the inbox
Most messages ask the same questions and do not keep office hours. A digital worker answers the routine ones from your own records on your own number, drafts the rest and flags what needs you.
Can't find staff? Which jobs need a person, and which don't
Most 'we need one more person' problems are a backlog of routine, not a people gap. Put one week of the vacancy in two columns, hand the repetitive column to a digital worker, and post a narrower, more valuable vacancy for what remains.
AI for small shops, restaurants and salons: a digital worker for the counter
What wears the counter down is the phone, not the counter. Which jobs repeat in a restaurant, a salon and a boutique, what a digital worker takes on your own WhatsApp number, three first jobs, and a first week without leaving the counter.
AI for online stores: handing order, return and stock questions to a digital worker
Three questions loop through an online store's inbox: where is my order, do you have this, can I return it. Which ones a digital worker answers from your own store records, which it leaves to you, marketplace versus your own site, and the first week.
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