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DonvitoCodes

Managed AI agents for businesses

Your next hire doesn’t have to be human.Meet your AI Coworker

Handle more work without another hire.

Before adding another employee, see how much repetitive work AI can handle. DonvitoCodes finds the right opportunity, installs the coworker, builds its first useful workflow, and keeps it running.

See the 4-stage plan

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The discovery call question

“If you hired someone tomorrow, what work would you give them first?”

Work comes in

Recurring admin, operations, or sales tasks

Hermes does the preparation

Using your rules, systems, and company knowledge

Your team stays in control

Human approval before external or consequential action

Built for

Your actual workflow

Managed by

DonvitoCodes

Discovery call
Free · 30 min
Initial investment
$4,250–5,250
Typical engagement
Around $4,750
Maintenance + operations
$750 / month

Best fit

More repeatable work than spare hands.

Built around recurring admin, operations, or sales work—not a particular industry or company size. Discovery determines whether your first workflow is a good fit.

  • Inbox triage
  • CRM updates
  • Lead research
  • Document prep
  • Recurring reports
  • Operations follow-up

How the engagement works

A step-by-step path from discovery to managed service. Each step earns the next, and you continue only when the previous step proves its value.

  1. Stage 1

    AI Discovery Workshop

    $7503–4 hours with your team

    We pair your domain expertise with AI workflow mapping to identify the right first use case, define human approvals, and surface integration risks before anything is built.

    You receive a written AI Discovery & Pilot Plan covering scope, approvals, integrations and risks, and the success metric—and you keep it either way.

  2. Stage 2

    Hermes Agent Setup & Installation

    $1,500one-time setup

    We install and configure Hermes in your client-funded hosting environment—runtime and model settings, credentials and access, company knowledge, logging, monitoring, backups, and security controls.

    A secured installation is running and ready for its first workflow.

  3. Stage 3

    First Workflow + 30-Day Pilot

    $2,000–3,000scoped by complexity

    We build one workflow across 2–3 systems with company knowledge and logic, human approvals, testing and onboarding, then run it live for 30 days with weekly adjustments.

    One measurable workflow runs in production and is assessed against the agreed success metric.

  4. Stage 4

    Managed AI Coworker

    $750/monthmaintenance + managed operations

    We maintain and manage the existing deployment with Hermes, software, and dependency updates; deployment and core-service failure monitoring; backup and routine security/configuration checks; and troubleshooting, restart/restore, and basic operational support.

    Your existing deployment is maintained and monitored for 24/7 operation. Hosting, AI usage, third-party services, and new workflow development are billed separately.

Control by design

You decide how much autonomy your coworker gets.

Internal preparation can run automatically. Sending, publishing, changing records, or other consequential actions wait for a person by default.

  1. 01

    AI prepares

    Research, drafts, summaries, and internal updates

  2. 02

    Your team reviews

    Context and quality stay visible

  3. 03

    A human approves

    The default for consequential actions

  4. 04

    Work moves forward

    The action runs with a clear audit trail

Cost and capacity

Add capacity without adding a salary for every workflow.

Suitable, repeatable digital workflows can run across functions in parallel while your people retain judgment, relationships, accountability, and consequential approvals.

Illustrative monthly cost

Employment

The hiring cost ladder

Using US$3,000–6,000+ per additional hire per month.

1 hire
$3,000–6,000+ / month
2 hires
$6,000–12,000+ / month
3 hires
$9,000–18,000+ / month
Managed AI coworker

$4,250–5,250

One-time initial implementation

Then $750/month

Ongoing maintenance and management of the existing deployment. Hosting, AI usage, third-party services, and new workflow development are billed separately.

Employment figures are illustrative. Actual employer costs vary by role, seniority, benefits, and location. This is a capacity comparison—not a claim that a managed AI coworker replaces one or more employees. It compares the marginal cost of suitable repeatable digital workflows and does not imply all work can be automated.

Hiring-comparison examples

One AI coworker can grow across multiple functions.

As suitable digital workflows are implemented over time, they can run concurrently. Example functions and capabilities include:

  • Sales

    Lead intake & follow-up drafts

  • Admin

    Inbox & admin triage

  • Revenue operations

    CRM updates & reporting

  • Documents

    Extraction & preparation

  • Operations

    Checks & reminders

  • Customer support

    Request triage, response drafts & knowledge lookup

Scope note: These are examples of potential functions—not six workflows included in the service price. The initial engagement includes one workflow pilot. You may build and manage future workflows yourself, with no lock-in. Additional workflows or integrations built by DonvitoCodes are separately scoped and quoted.

Hiring-comparison advantages

  • Parallel task execution
  • Maintained for 24/7 operation
  • Global queue coverage across time zones

Implemented workflows extend coverage beyond one working schedule.

A human team member normally works a defined schedule and has finite capacity for concurrent tasks. By comparison, once implemented and approved, suitable AI workflows can run in parallel around the clock across time zones to help cover global client queues—without adding another salary for every shift or region. External or consequential actions still require human approval by default, and operation remains subject to provider availability.

Clear pricing

A typical path to live: about $4,750.

$750

Discovery

$1,500

Setup

$2,500

Typical pilot

Initial range: $4,250–5,250, depending on pilot complexity.

Then: $750/month for ongoing maintenance and management of your AI coworker. Hosting, AI usage, third-party services, and new workflow development are billed separately.

Maximum five founding clients

Build the service with direct access.

  • $750/month maintenance and managed operations for the first six months
  • Direct access to DonvitoCodes
  • Faster iteration on the first workflow
  • A real voice in how the managed service evolves
Book the discovery call

Managed-service scope

What $750/month covers

Included

  • Hermes, software, and dependency updates
  • Deployment and core-service monitoring, including failure monitoring
  • Backup checks and routine security/configuration maintenance
  • Troubleshooting, restart/restore, and basic operational support to keep the existing system running

Billed separately

  • Hosting, infrastructure, storage, and bandwidth
  • AI model/API credits and metered AI services
  • Paid third-party software and APIs
  • New workflows, major workflow redesigns, new integrations, and custom development

The initial engagement includes one workflow pilot. You may build and manage future workflows yourself—there is no lock-in. If DonvitoCodes builds additional workflows or integrations, they are separately scoped and quoted.

Frequently asked questions

Questions before you get started.

What is a managed AI coworker?

It is an AI system built around your recurring work. DonvitoCodes finds the right workflow, installs and configures Hermes Agent, builds the first workflow, and manages it after launch.

Is the managed AI coworker limited to a specific industry or company size?

No. It is designed around repeatable admin, operations, or sales work across industries and company sizes. Discovery determines whether your workflow is a good fit.

Why does the paid AI Discovery Workshop come first?

It turns an idea into a written plan covering the workflow, human approvals, integrations, risks, success metric, and pilot scope. The recommendation may be to proceed, prepare first, or not automate.

Do we need to manage infrastructure or Hermes Agent?

DonvitoCodes handles the initial technical setup and ongoing maintenance and monitoring of the deployment. You fund hosting, infrastructure, storage, bandwidth, AI usage, and paid third-party services separately.

What does the $750/month managed-service fee include?

$750/month for ongoing maintenance and management of your AI coworker. Hosting, AI usage, third-party services, and new workflow development are billed separately. Included work: Hermes, software, and dependency updates; Deployment and core-service monitoring, including failure monitoring; Backup checks and routine security/configuration maintenance; Troubleshooting, restart/restore, and basic operational support to keep the existing system running. Separate client costs: Hosting, infrastructure, storage, and bandwidth; AI model/API credits and metered AI services; Paid third-party software and APIs; New workflows, major workflow redesigns, new integrations, and custom development.

What are the founding prices and usage costs?

Founding pricing is $750 for discovery, $1,500 for Hermes installation and deployment configuration, and $2,000–$3,000 for the first workflow and 30-day pilot ($4,250–$5,250 initially). For the first six months, the maintenance and managed-operations rate is $750/month; hosting, AI usage, third-party services, and new development are separate.

How much autonomy does the AI coworker have?

You choose. Internal preparation can run automatically, while sending, publishing, changing records, and other consequential actions require human approval by default.

Can we add workflows later, and is there another setup fee?

Yes. The initial engagement includes one workflow pilot. You can build and manage future workflows yourself, with no lock-in. If DonvitoCodes builds additional workflows or integrations, they are separately scoped and quoted, with no second Hermes setup fee.

What work would you give someone first?

Bring that answer to a free 30-minute discovery call. We will decide whether it is a useful first job for an AI coworker.

Free · 30 minutes · No commitment