Dagny vs Hiring someone
Payroll is the scariest line in a growing company's budget. A hire is not a cost, it is a commitment: salary, taxes, onboarding, and the risk it does not work out. Dagny is the extra pair of hands without the commitment. And a great human still beats any AI at judgment.
Hiring someone
A great hire takes six weeks to find and months to ramp.
Dagny
I need a login and an afternoon.
Dagny vs Hiring someone
The traditional route
What a human hire does well
Real judgment on high-stakes calls, trust built with customers, accountability, presence in the room. Some of the work of running a business should stay human. We mean that.
Where Dagny is different
What keeps owners up at night is not the workload, it is the commitment: about six weeks to fill the role, months more before full speed, a salary owed whether or not revenue shows up, and the sinking feeling when it is not working out. Dagny starts the same afternoon, costs a fraction of a salary, and scales down as easily as up. And when you do hire, she makes it a better hire: with the routine load off the table, the next salary can go to judgment, not inbox management.
Side by side
Common questions
- Is Dagny meant to replace hiring?
- Sometimes it delays a hire; more often it changes what you hire for. Dagny absorbs the follow-ups, reports, and routine ops so your next hire can be a senior person, not an inbox manager.
- How fast is Dagny productive compared to a new hire?
- Industry surveys put new hires at three to eight months to full productivity. Dagny connects to your tools and starts doing useful work the same day.
- What does an assistant cost compared to Dagny?
- A US-based assistant runs several thousand dollars a month fully loaded, and even 40 hours a month of premium VA time is around $2,500. Dagny costs a fraction of that, and she does not take weekends.
However you compare, two things stay true. Dagny works with you in the loop: she drafts, you approve, she sends, and nothing reaches a customer without your yes. And behind her there are people. Our team is a message away whenever you want a human.
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Facts checked July 2026 against SHRM: Cost and time per hire benchmarks and Glean: New-hire ramp-up research. Products change quickly; if something here has drifted, tell us and we will fix it.