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AI employees.

Everything we have published on the subject, newest first.

Where this topic leads

Employee-grade AI workers with defined roles, priced against headcount rather than software.

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What employee-grade AI workers actually do, and why a role with a remit beats a chatbot with a script. That is the ground this hub covers. 7 Minds Systems writes these field notes for owners of professional and local service businesses: practical pieces on the choices that decide whether an enquiry becomes booked work or a missed one.

The field notes

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August 202610 min read

Can a law firm use AI for client intake under SRA rules?

Yes for administrative intake, with the firm accountable for every output, a named compliance officer responsible, and the client told they are dealing with AI. What the SRA has published, and the rule that does not exist.

August 202610 min read

Does an AI receptionist meet CQC expectations in a GP practice?

The CQC has published guidance on AI in GP services, and answering the telephone is not in it. What GP mythbuster 109 actually says, the ten areas assessors look at, and where the guidance genuinely stops.

August 20269 min read

AI and dental patient communication under GDC standards

The GDC has published research on AI in dentistry and no standard that names it. Which existing standards bind a system that speaks to patients, and why a recorded call may become part of the clinical record.

August 20269 min read

Call recording, consent and UK GDPR when an AI answers the phone

Consent is one lawful basis out of seven, and often the wrong one to choose. What the ICO actually requires when calls are recorded, what has to be said at the start, and what changes when a caller mentions their health.

August 20267 min read

Can AI do your bookkeeping?

Partly. An AI employee can collect the documents, chase the client who has not sent them, and keep the record readable. Your ledger, your reconciliation and your VAT return stay with a qualified person.

August 20266 min read

Writing an AI usage policy for a small firm

A policy a firm of ten will actually follow fits on two sides of paper and answers four questions about the tools your team already uses. No template attached, deliberately.

August 20266 min read

How to audit an AI employee's output

An audit trail is only worth what somebody actually reads. A practical monthly routine for sampling an AI employee's conversations and correcting what the reading finds.

August 20266 min read

What does an AI employee cost per hour?

From about 96p an hour. The arithmetic is short enough to check on the way past, and the argument is entirely about which hours you agree to divide by.

August 20265 min read

Automated email follow-up that wins the quiet leads

Most enquiries never say no. They go quiet. How to build an email follow-up that keeps a civil conversation going for three weeks, and where a person has to take over.

August 202613 min read

Can a regulated firm let AI handle client intake? The rules in four markets

Yes for administrative handling, no for advice or clinical triage, and disclosure is mandatory everywhere. The specific rules across the UK, US, Canada and Australia.

June 202611 min read

What is a Cooperating AI Workforce? AI departments vs a single agent

A single AI agent answers questions and maybe books a meeting. A Cooperating AI Workforce is a department of specialist agents that hand work between each other and to your own people, inside the tools you already run, with a named person in command. Here is the architecture, and when a business is ready for it.

June 202611 min read

Is it safe to let AI answer client enquiries? Data, compliance and human oversight

The biggest objection from solicitors, accountants and clinics, answered head on. Yes, it is safe, but only because of where you draw the line: what the AI may decide, who signs off the rest, and how your clients' data is handled.

June 20267 min read

No borrowed logos: how to read an AI agency's proof, and how to read ours

Most AI agency case studies are designed to look like evidence without being it. Here is how to tell proof from decoration before you sign, and the honest reason ours reads the way it does.

June 20267 min read

AI employee vs hiring staff: the real cost, and when it pays back

A hire costs a salary plus everything around it, and covers forty hours a week. Here is what an AI employee actually replaces, what each option costs over a year, and the short maths of when it pays back.

June 20263 min read

What is an Autonomous Digital Branch?

A plain definition of the model 7 Minds Systems builds: a premium website with a managed AI workforce inside, run as one system.

June 20263 min read

AI employees vs chatbots: the difference that matters

Chatbots answer questions. An AI employee owns a job end to end, with someone it reports to. Here is the practical difference.

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