What arrived
Flight change: new departure 6:15am
The airline emails a schedule change late at night, the kind of thing that would otherwise sit until a human assistant clocks in the next morning.
Comparison
Cheaper than an assistant. And it never sleeps.
A great human assistant brings judgement, relationships and real-world representation. They also cost thousands a month and take weeks to ramp up. They 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.
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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 holiday 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 → |
| Judgement & relationships | Brings real judgement, 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 modelling, every 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 judgement. | You keep an explicit autonomy dial: nothing sends without approval until you promote a category yourself. How the approval ladder works → |
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What Beemy produces.
Illustrative
Illustrative example, built with mock data.
In Gmail · personal
Beemy's draft
Re: Flight change: new departure 6:15am
This lands at 11pm, well past when a hired assistant would have gone home. Beemy checks the new time against tomorrow's calendar and drafts the confirmation, ready the moment you wake up.
You approve it once you're up. Nothing was booked or changed while you slept.
The honest tradeoff
A human brings judgement. Beemy brings hours.
Beemy does not try to replace judgement. It escalates anything ambiguous or high-stakes to you, with a plain-language reason. What it takes off your plate is the volume: the forty emails, the full calendar, the news digest. It finishes them before you wake, at a fraction of the cost of another salary.
How the autonomy ladder works →The maths
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 nearly 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 →When to pick them instead
When hiring a human is the right call.
Some jobs need real-world representation: attending meetings, negotiating on your behalf, building relationships, and judging ambiguous or sensitive calls. For those, a human assistant is the right tool, and Beemy is not built to compete. It escalates that kind of decision to you. Beemy replaces the high-volume, recurring routine: the triage, the drafting, the digesting and the chasing. For most people, Beemy handles the routine. A human's time, yours or a hire's, then goes to the parts that 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 and scheduling. It escalates judgement calls, relationship-building and anything ambiguous to you. A good human assistant would flag those the same way.
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?
Beemy does not attend meetings in person. It does not build relationships on your behalf. It escalates ambiguous or sensitive judgement calls to you.
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