Comparison
Cheaper than an assistant. And it never sleeps.
A great human assistant brings judgment, relationships and real-world representation. They also cost thousands a month, take weeks to ramp up, and read everything in your inbox to do the job. Beemy handles the high-volume routine 24/7, keeps you in control, and costs less than a lunch out.
At a glance
Eight ways the job gets done differently.
| Dimension | A human executive/virtual assistant | Beemy |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Typically $3,000–$6,000+ a month for a full-time executive or virtual assistant, plus benefits and management overhead. | $29–49/month per person — Individual or Team plan, free to start. See plans → |
| Availability | Works business hours, and takes vacation and sick days like anyone should. | Runs in the background around the clock — triage, drafts and digests keep moving overnight and on weekends. |
| Ramp-up time | Weeks to months of onboarding before they know your contacts, your projects and your preferences. | Useful within your first few minutes connected — a triaged inbox and a first draft in your voice, the same session. See the pipeline → |
| Access to your inbox | Reads everything in your inbox to do the job — a real person sees it all, including what's personal. | Starts read-only, keeps personal and work in separate architectural silos, and only acts once you approve. How the silos hold → |
| Judgment & relationships | Brings real judgment, institutional memory, and the ability to build relationships on your behalf. | Handles the high-volume routine and escalates anything ambiguous or high-stakes straight to you instead of guessing. |
| Consistency | Quality varies with mood, workload and turnover — and you start over when they leave. | Same triage, same voice modeling, every single day — and every correction you make teaches it. |
| Scaling to a team | A second assistant means a second salary and a second onboarding. | Team plan is $49/user/month, same autonomy ladder and silo model for everyone. See team pricing → |
| Control | You delegate and largely trust their day-to-day judgment. | You keep an explicit autonomy dial — nothing sends without approval until you promote a category yourself. How the approval ladder works → |
The honest tradeoff
A human brings judgment. Beemy brings hours.
Beemy doesn't try to replace judgment — anything ambiguous or high-stakes is escalated to you, with a plain-language reason, instead of guessed at. What it takes off your plate is the volume: the forty emails, the full calendar, the digest of the news, done before you're awake, at a fraction of the cost of another salary.
How the autonomy ladder works →The math
Less than a lunch out, compared to a full-time hire.
$29 a month for an Individual plan versus thousands for a full-time or even part-time human assistant. Team pricing is $49 per user per month — still a fraction of a second hire's salary and onboarding time.
See the plans →Always on
It doesn't clock out.
A human assistant works business hours, takes leave, and needs handoff notes when they're out. Beemy triages, drafts and digests overnight and on weekends — the same one loop, every day.
See everything it handles →Privacy
Fewer eyes on your mail.
A person you hire reads essentially everything in your inbox to do the job. Beemy starts read-only, keeps personal and work in separate architectural silos, and nothing sends without your approval.
The full commitments →A fair word
When hiring a human is the right call.
If the job needs real-world representation — attending meetings, negotiating on your behalf, building relationships, exercising judgment on genuinely ambiguous or sensitive calls — a human assistant is the right tool, and Beemy isn't built to compete there; it escalates exactly that kind of decision to you rather than guess at it. What Beemy replaces is the high-volume, recurring routine: the triage, the drafting, the digesting, the chasing. For most people, the honest answer is Beemy handles the routine so a human's time (yours, or a hire's) goes to the parts that actually need a person.
Questions
Fair questions, straight answers.
Is Beemy meant to replace hiring an assistant?
Not entirely. Beemy is built for the high-volume, recurring parts of the job — triage, drafting, digests, follow-ups, scheduling. Judgment calls, relationship-building and anything ambiguous still get escalated to you, the same way a good human assistant would flag something rather than guess.
How much cheaper is Beemy than hiring an assistant?
Individual is $29/month, or $49/user/month for a team — versus typically $3,000+/month for a full- or part-time human hire. See full pricing on the plans page.
Does Beemy read my entire inbox the way a human assistant would have to?
No. It starts read-only, keeps personal and work in strictly separate architectural silos, and won't send, reply or file anything on your behalf until you approve it.
What can't Beemy do that a human assistant can?
Attend meetings in person, make judgment calls on genuinely ambiguous or sensitive matters, or build relationships on your behalf — which is exactly what it escalates to you instead of guessing at.
Get your time back.
Beemy is in private beta. Join the waitlist and go from connect to a quiet, triaged inbox — in your first session, not a week later.