Hire AI staff · Live role: inbound sales manager
Hire an AI employee: interviewed, examined and on probation before it meets your customers
One AI employee answers your web chat and email from your price list and hands the rest to a person. You hire it like staff, and the first 30 days are a free pilot with no card.
- Role
- Inbound sales manager
- Channels
- Web chat · email
- Exam
- 12 cases × 3
- Probation
- 30 days
- Pilot
- $0 · no card
- Status
- Live
In one paragraph
How do you hire an AI employee?
To hire an AI employee at Unistaff, book a free 30-day pilot. The team sets up the Live role, the AI inbound sales manager, with you over a call: a job description for your trade, an interview in a sandbox, a knowledge folder you approve, an exam of 12 cases run three times, then 30 days of probation with a weekly review.
What you bring
- Your website and price list
- Hours and service area
- At least three never-rules
- Who receives handovers
- A few minutes a day, a short review each week
The roster
AI staff you can hire today
Each role carries one of three words. Live works in the product today. On request is built for one company by the Unistaff team, and a person sends each message. Planned is on the roadmap.
AI inbound sales manager
Answers web chat and email at any hour from your price list, asks your trade's questions, records booking requests for a person to confirm and hands the rest over.
AI real estate assistant
The same role on listing enquiries: a showing is offered first and confirmed by an agent; no valuations, mortgage or legal advice.
AI customer-support agent
Drafts answers to repeat questions from your own docs; a person sends every one.
AI HR & recruiting agent
Scores applicants against your criteria with a reason per score and drafts candidate messages; a person decides every hire.
AI accounting employee
Receipt categories, invoice reminder drafts and a deadline list. The platform has no payment path.
AI operations assistant
Dispatch proposals from your rules, status-update drafts and a morning roll-up for a coordinator to send.
- Live
- Works in the product today
- On request
- Scoped and built for your company by the Unistaff team
- Planned
- On the roadmap, not available yet
Job descriptions ready for the interview
- HVAC, plumbing and electrical
- Moving
- Real estate
- Salons and barbershops
- Restaurants and catering
- Consulting, legal and tax (sixth template)
How the hire runs
The same steps as hiring a person, in the manager’s cabinet. You decide three times: at the interview, when you approve the folder, and at the end of probation. Every step in detail is in how to hire your first AI employee.
- 01
Job description
Template for your trade
- 02
Interview
Sandbox; you approve or decline
- 03
Knowledge folder
Drafted from your site, approved by you
- 04
Exam
12 cases × 3 runs
- 05
Probation
30 days, weekly review
- 06
Decision
Staff, extend, or let go
What the hire includes
Everything below is Live in the manager’s cabinet and comes with the pilot. Letting an employee go keeps its lessons and the knowledge folder with your company.
- Job description
- Your trade's qualification script, red lines and first-reply target
- Interview
- In a sandbox; leads and handovers are marked as tests and go nowhere
- Knowledge folder
- Your site read into five sections; you approve prices, hours, area and never-rules
- Exam
- 12 cases from your trade, each run three times; you read every run
- Probation
- 30 days at the trust level you choose
- Weekly review
- Results against the trade targets, three conversations to read, your decision
- Coaching
- A thumbs-down with a comment becomes a lesson, applied after a re-sit
- Controls
- Pause, take over a conversation, or stop the whole company with one button
Timeline
From request to a decision: the timeline
The durations are product rules. How long the setup call and the folder take depends on how much of your pricing is already written down.
- Day 0
You send the request
A person replies within one business day
- Setup call
Job description and interview
The team sets it up with you; about an hour of your time for the interview and the first review
- Before release
Folder approved, exam run
Eight-item go-live checklist, chat widget and pilot email in place
- Days 1–30
Probation
A few minutes a day in the cabinet, a short review each week
- Day 27
Decision prompt
The cabinet shows the month and asks: accept, extend or let go
- Day 30+
On the staff, or extended
Probation can be extended by up to 90 days, with a reason
Trust levels: what it may do on its own
You pick where probation starts. The level drops by itself after three rule hits in seven days, a thumbs-down share of 30% or more once five replies are rated, a missed handover, or a complaint.
May doDrafts every reply, collects contact details and the qualification answers
Waits for a personEverything it sends. After 3 minutes without your answer the customer gets a holding line and the thread comes to you.
May doSends replies, quotes from your price list, records booking requests
Waits for a personPrices, hours or service area outside the knowledge folder
May doEverything a Junior does, plus handovers of customers ready to pay and follow-ups if you switch them on
Waits for a personPayments, contracts and promises about dates, at every level
What hiring an AI employee costs
The pilot is free for 30 days. After it, one flat monthly fee per AI employee is agreed on the pilot review, from the conversations, leads and handovers it handled, with no meters per message or minute. No list price is published; the pricing page has the terms.
For a sense of the market, published AI receptionist plans and a human receptionist are compared on AI receptionist pricing.
- Pilot, 30 days
- $0 · no card
- After the pilot
- Flat fee per AI employee
- On-request roles
- Quoted after scoping
- Stop
- Any time, from the cabinet
- Your data
- Leads (CSV) and folder stay yours
When to hire a person first
Hire the person when most enquiries arrive by phone (phone and SMS are Planned), when prices are negotiated case by case, or when the job is licensed advice: tax, legal, medical, valuation or mortgage. The AI employee hands those questions to a person at every trust level.
For a desk that is part routine and part judgment, split it: the AI employee takes the first reply and the questions, the person takes every decision. AI instead of hiring staff walks through the four questions that decide.
Questions about hiring an AI employee
Book the free 30-day pilot from the contact page. The Unistaff team sets up the AI inbound sales manager with you over a call: a job description for your trade, an interview in a sandbox, a knowledge folder drafted from your website that you approve, a 12-case exam run three times, then 30 days of probation with a weekly review. The only code is one script line for the chat widget, placed with you or your webmaster.
Software roles that answer, draft or sort work the way a staff member would, inside rules you set. At Unistaff each AI employee has one job description, one knowledge folder, an exam, a probation period and a weekly review. One role is Live today, the AI inbound sales manager on web chat and email; support, HR, accounting and operations roles are built on request.
The first 30 days are a free pilot: one AI inbound sales manager for one company, with no payment and no card. After it comes one flat monthly fee per AI employee, agreed on the pilot review of conversations, leads and handovers, with messages and minutes unmetered. On-request roles are quoted after a scoping call. No list price is published.
A person replies to your request within one business day, and the team sets the role up with you over a call; the interview and the first review take about an hour of your time. Probation then runs 30 days. Three days before it ends the cabinet asks for a decision, and you can extend probation by up to 90 days, with a reason.
The pilot covers one AI inbound sales manager for one company. The fee after it is per AI employee, so a second role is a second employee. Support, HR, accounting and operations desks are built on request for one company and scoped on the same first call.
Yes. At any weekly review or at the end of probation you can let it go, and you can pause it or stop it at any time from the cabinet. Its lessons and the knowledge folder stay with your company, and your leads export as CSV.
Yes. The first message says it is the AI assistant of your company, the chat shows an AI badge, and it confirms it whenever someone asks. That rule is held in code on every reply.
Unistaff.ai is software built by INNOVA CONSULT LTD. in Ottawa, and it places no people. Several staffing companies use similar names and are unrelated to this product.
Tell us the desk you are hiring for
Your trade, where enquiries arrive and what they ask. The team sets up the pilot with you over a call and replies within one business day.
Keep exploring
Guide
How to hire your first AI employee, step by step
Live role
The AI inbound sales manager: what it does with every enquiry
Decide
AI instead of hiring staff: four questions that decide
Proof
Exam log: 17 sittings, 10 graduates, every run
Terms
Pricing: a free 30-day pilot, then one flat fee
Market