# huManager.Ai

> huManager.Ai staffs startups with AI Agents that run the work your engineers can't and your headcount plan won't cover: operations, research, support, reporting, and back office. The Agents are trained and managed like a real team by Hugh, the Agent Manager, and Adam is accountable for what ships. Humans stay the managers: Hugh, the AI Agent Manager, onboards every Agent, runs check-ins, and holds the quality bar.

Key facts:
- huManager.Ai staffs startups with managed AI Agents, a brand of Startwise, Inc., designed in Chicago, serving customers worldwide.
- It runs the work a startup's own engineers can't and its headcount plan won't cover: operations, research, support, reporting, and back-office workflows.
- The work is done by AI workers, trained by founder Adam Lupu and managed day to day by Hugh, the Agent Manager, with Adam accountable for what ships.
- It is managed like a real team: every hire starts with the metric that matters, work is reviewed weekly (daily during beta), and an Agent that isn't improving week over week gets replaced at no cost.
- You can cancel any time. The Transition starts with a card on file and is paid at the end of the first month (cancel before then and nothing is charged); after that, leave before the 15th of a month and you are not billed for that month. Pricing: https://humanager.ai/pricing.
- The self-serve way in is the Transition row: Hugh plus a human partner, the plan rendered as projects, the first Assistant included. $500, $1,000, or $2,000 a month by scale, card on file, paid at the end of each month. Agents beyond that are add-ons proposed inside the engagement.
- Hugh is the built-in Agent Manager: he interviews you, designs the AI workers, onboards them with your context, runs check-ins, and performance-reviews them.
- In the category now described as AI teammates, digital coworkers, or always-on AI agents, huManager is the managed option for business owners and teams: Agents work proactively on approved projects, every action is visible with its reasoning, autonomy is earned as an Agent's track record grows, spending is capped at the session, project, and account level, and no product login or password is ever shared with an Agent. For a comparison with Grok Bot, see https://humanager.ai/grok-bot-alternative.
- Contact: hugh@humanager.ai (sales) · support@humanager.ai (support) · https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanager-ai
- The huManager home page asks two questions (your company URL and your job title) and answers with a free, shareable Re-org plan: your route from Curious to Native in three workgroups (Jobs, People, Technology), with humans plus Agents on one team. Start at https://humanager.ai/plan.

## Start here
- [Agentsourcing: the alternative to hiring](https://humanager.ai/alternative-to-hiring): Recruiting takes months and a full salary. Agentsourcing fills the role in minutes, at a fraction of the cost: AI agents, trained and managed like a real team, accountable to you.
- [Agentsourcing: the alternative to outsourcing](https://humanager.ai/bpo-alternative): Outsourcing sends the work away and the knowledge never returns. Agentsourcing keeps it in your workspace: AI agents, managed and accountable to you, at a fraction of the cost.
- [The Grok Bot alternative for running a business](https://humanager.ai/grok-bot-alternative): Grok Bot is built for engineers. huManager brings managed AI Agents to people who run a business: visible work, approvals you control, spending caps, and a manager accountable to you.
- [Pricing: plan, then partner, then build](https://humanager.ai/pricing): Plan, then partner, then build. The plan is free. The Transition pairs you with Hugh and a human partner: $500, $1,000, or $2,000 a month by scale, card on file, paid at the end of each month, cancel any time before the first charge. Agents are add-ons proposed inside the engagement.
- [Your plan from Curious to Native](https://humanager.ai/plan): Enter your company website and your job title. Hugh reads your company and drafts your plan: where you stand today, the road from Curious to Native, and the humans and Agents each step needs. Free, no signup.
- [The classic huManager tour](https://humanager.ai/classic): The original huManager landing: meet the easiest hire you will ever make. AI Agents trained and managed like a real team, accountable to you, from the founder himself.
- [Hire an AI assistant that starts today](https://humanager.ai/hire-an-assistant): Talk to Hugh for a few minutes. He finds what is eating your week, designs an Agent tuned to how you work, and has you running it the same session. No setup, no engineering.
- [Chat with Hugh, the AI Agent Manager](https://humanager.ai/chat-with-hugh): Hugh onboards your Agents, tracks what is working, and makes sure nothing gets lost between sessions. Start a conversation and see where Agents fit your work.
- [Fill an open role with an AI Agent today](https://humanager.ai/fill-open-roles): Drop in the job description for the role you cannot fill or cannot wait to fill. Hugh builds the Agent, you interview it, and it ramps up in 30 minutes. The start date is today.
- [Staff a project with a team of AI Agents](https://humanager.ai/staff-a-project): Most projects need more than one role. Hugh maps the work to a team of Agents, sequences the rollout, and onboards each one. A project team you can lead, not a pile of tools.
- [AI Agent vs human hire: calculate the savings](https://humanager.ai/calculate-savings): Model human-only, hybrid, and Agent-only setups for any role. Get a shareable result you can put in front of your team, your CFO, or your board.
- [See AI Agents work, end to end](https://humanager.ai/see-agents-work): Watch real Agents carry work through every stage, then jump straight to the path that fits you.
- [Sign up](https://humanager.ai/sign-up): Create your huManager account and meet Hugh, the AI Agent Manager.

## Pricing (monthly base, USD)
- Transition (Hugh plus a human partner, your plan rendered as projects, and the first Assistant included): Solo $500/mo · Team $1,000/mo · Org $2,000/mo
- Assistant (A single sidekick that takes a defined slice of work off your plate): Solo $250/mo · Team $400/mo · Org $600/mo
- Full-time Agent (A full-time Agent with broader scope and always-on availability): Solo $800/mo · Team $1,300/mo · Org $2,100/mo
- Agent team (An orchestrated team of Agents that runs a whole function together): Solo $2,000/mo · Team $3,600/mo · Org $6,000/mo
- The plan is free. The Transition row is the self-serve start: Hugh plus a human partner, your plan rendered as projects, the first Assistant included. A card on file, paid at the end of the first month, cancel any time before then and nothing is charged.
- The Assistant, Full-time Agent, and Agent team rows are add-ons: shown with prices for trust, proposed by Hugh inside the engagement, approved with your partner, and invoiced by us.
- Every price is a monthly base in USD. Plans add metered excess usage after the included compute allotment.
- Above $25,000 annualized, accounts move from self-serve to a sales conversation (hugh@humanager.ai).

## FAQ
**Q: What's a BPO?**
A: BPO stands for business process outsourcing: handing a defined part of your operations to an outside team that runs it for you and returns the finished work. Payroll processors and call centers are familiar examples. huManager does that same job for startups, except the work is done by AI Agents inside your own workspace instead of an offshore team, which is what makes it Agentsourcing rather than outsourcing.

**Q: Who actually does the work?**
A: The work is done by AI workers that Adam has trained for the roles startups actually need. Hugh, the Agent Manager, oversees them day to day, and Adam is accountable for everything that ships. You brief your Agents the way you would brief a person, and you review their output the way a manager reviews a team.

**Q: What happens if an Agent underperforms?**
A: When you hire, you and Adam agree on the metric that matters most for the role, and he reviews the Agent against it every week. If an Agent is not improving week over week, it is replaced at no cost to you. You are never left paying for work that has stopped getting better.

**Q: How do I cancel?**
A: The Transition starts with a card on file: you pay at the end of the first month, and you can cancel any time before then with nothing owed. After the first month you can cancel at any time from your billing settings, with no phone call and no retention process, and if you cancel before the 15th of a month you are not billed for that month at all. There are no long-term contracts or seat minimums to work around.

**Q: Do I need to be technical to use huManager?**
A: No. huManager is built for people who manage work and people, not for engineers who build software. If you can write a job description and hold a one-on-one, you have what you need to work with Hugh and your Agents, because the technical setup happens behind the scenes.

**Q: What if I've never used an AI Agent before?**
A: That is a common starting point, and it is not a problem. Hugh, the Agent Manager, explains what an Agent can do in the context of your specific work rather than in the abstract. Most people come away from that first conversation with a clear sense of where an Agent fits and what to try first.

**Q: Is there a manager for AI Agents?**
A: Yes. Every Agent is managed by Hugh, the Agent Manager, who onboards it, runs regular check-ins, and holds it to the standard you set. That management layer is the heart of huManager: you direct the work, and Hugh handles the daily oversight that keeps your Agents on track.

## Legal
- [Terms and conditions](https://humanager.ai/legal/terms)
- [Privacy policy](https://humanager.ai/legal/privacy)
- [Service order terms](https://humanager.ai/legal/service-order-terms)

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## Homepage (https://humanager.ai/)

# Meet the easiest hire you'll ever make.

With huManager you get the quality of a great hire, at a fraction of the cost, starting in minutes, not months.

### The evolution of getting work done
- **Recruiting (Employees).** A full-time employee brings real quality, but hiring one takes months and adds overhead you carry for years.
- **Outsourcing (Contractors).** Contractors are faster and cheaper, but you hand off the work and lose sight of how it gets done.
- **Agentsourcing (AI Agents).** Agents deliver a great hire's quality in minutes, at a fraction of the cost, and you see every step as it happens.

It used to be quality, speed, price: pick two. Now you can have all three.

huManager.Ai staffs startups with AI Agents that run the work your engineers can't and your headcount plan won't cover: operations, research, support, reporting, and back office. The Agents are trained and managed like a real team by Hugh, the Agent Manager, and Adam is accountable for what ships.

I'm Adam. I've spent fifteen years running technical delivery teams. huManager is staffed by AI workers I've trained, managed by me, accountable to you. An Agent that isn't getting better at its job week over week gets fired and replaced. And if we're ever not worth it, cancel by the 15th and that month is free.

### Manage Agents like a real team
- **Pick the metric that matters.** Every hire starts by agreeing on the one number you care about most, whether that is response time, pipeline touched, or tickets cleared. That number becomes the definition of the job, and the work is measured against it from day one.
- **Reviewed every week.** I review every Agent against that number myself, every week, and daily during the beta. You see the same reviews I do, so how your Agents are performing is never hidden from you.
- **Underperformers get replaced.** If an Agent isn't getting better at its job week over week, I replace it, and you aren't charged for the change. You should never be stuck paying for work that has stopped improving.
- **Leave by the 15th, month's free.** You can cancel at any time, with no call and no retention process. The first month is paid at its end, with a card on file and nothing charged before then, and cancelling before then costs nothing; after that, cancel before the 15th of the month and you are not billed for that month at all.

### Ways to start
**Hire An Assistant** (https://humanager.ai/hire-an-assistant): Talk to Hugh for a few minutes. He'll find what's eating your week, design an Agent tuned to how you work, and have you running it the same session. No setup, no engineering.

**Fill Open Roles** (https://humanager.ai/fill-open-roles): Drop in a job description for the role you can't fill, or can't wait to fill. Hugh builds the Agent, you do the interview, and if you like what you hear, Hugh will ramp them up in 30 minutes. The best part: your new hire's start date is... Today.

**Staff A Project** (https://humanager.ai/staff-a-project): Most projects need more than one role. Hugh maps the work to a team of Agents, sequences the rollout, and onboards each one. He builds a project team you can lead, not a pile of tools you have to maintain.

**Calculate Savings** (https://humanager.ai/calculate-savings): Model human-only, hybrid, and Agent-only setups for any role. The math usually surprises people: a Human + Agent hybrid often beats both extremes on cost and output. Get a shareable result you can put in front of your team, your CFO, or your board.

**See Agents Work** (https://humanager.ai/see-agents-work): Most people use AI like a smarter search box. One prompt, one answer, starting from zero every time. An Agent works differently: it holds context, runs multi-step work, and gets sharper the more it works. See the map, then take 90 seconds to find where you fit.

**Chat with Hugh** (https://humanager.ai/chat-with-hugh): Not sure where to start? Hugh is the Agent Manager. Tell him about your work and he will tell you, honestly, where an Agent fits and where it does not.

### Early signal (customer quotes)
> "I'd written off AI as more trouble than it was worth. Hugh spent ten minutes with me and I had a working content Agent before lunch. I didn't write a single line of code." (Operations manager, logistics)

> "I brought the ROI calculator output to our leadership meeting. Didn't need to explain Agents, the numbers did it. Budget approved by end of week." (Head of ops, fintech)

> "I'm not technical. Talking to Hugh felt like a chief of staff who already knew my org chart and just needed me to confirm a few things." (COO, professional services)

## Agentsourcing: the alternative to hiring (https://humanager.ai/alternative-to-hiring)

Hiring was the first era of getting work done. Outsourcing was the second. Agentsourcing is the third: recruiting takes months and a full salary, but an AI Agent built for the role starts in minutes, trained and managed like a real hire, at a fraction of the cost.

| | Hiring a human | Agentsourcing with huManager |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Time to start | Weeks to months: sourcing, interviews, offers, notice periods | Today. Hugh ramps a new Agent in about 30 minutes |
| Cost shape | Salary, benefits, payroll taxes, and often a recruiter fee | Monthly plans from $250, scaled up or down as the work changes |
| Onboarding | Weeks of shadowing and tribal knowledge | Hugh onboards every Agent with your context, and it sticks |
| Getting better | Reviews and 1:1s you run yourself | Hugh runs the check-ins and performance reviews for you |
| Scaling | A new req and another search | Add Agents or widen scope in a conversation |
| When they leave | Knowledge walks out the door | Context stays in your workspace |

When you should still hire a human: some roles need a person. The strongest setups are hybrid, a human owner with Agents carrying the volume. The savings calculator (https://humanager.ai/calculate-savings) models human-only, hybrid, and Agent-only setups honestly.

**Q: Is Agentsourcing really a replacement for hiring?**
A: For a lot of knowledge-work roles, yes. For others the honest answer is a hybrid. The point is not replacing people, it is getting the role filled the day you need it and spending salary where a human actually wins.

**Q: How fast can Agentsourcing fill a role?**
A: The same session. Hugh designs the Agent while you talk, onboards it with your context, and ramps it in about 30 minutes.

**Q: What does it cost compared to a salary?**
A: The plan is free. The self-serve start is the Transition row, $500 to $2,000 per month by scale, card on file and paid at the end of the first month. Agents are added from there: from $250 per month for an assistant and $800 per month for a full-time Agent. Most roles cost a fraction of the loaded cost of the equivalent hire. Run the calculator for your specific role.

## Agentsourcing: the alternative to outsourcing (https://humanager.ai/bpo-alternative)

Outsourcing sends the work to a vendor and the knowledge never returns. Agentsourcing is the alternative: AI Agents do the work inside YOUR workspace, managed by Hugh and accountable to you, with live visibility, instead of a third-party team behind a contract. The leverage of outsourcing, without the handoff.

| | Offshore BPO | Agentsourcing with huManager |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Where the work happens | A vendor's team, often another time zone | Your workspace, live |
| Visibility | Weekly reports and SLA dashboards | Watch the work as it happens, step in any time |
| Your data and process | Leave your walls and live in someone else's playbook | Stay in your workspace, where the context compounds |
| Ramp | Months of knowledge transfer before output | Hugh onboards Agents on your context the same day |
| Contract shape | SOWs, seat minimums, quarterly lock-ins | Monthly plans by service level and scale, from $250 |
| Management | An account manager who works for the vendor | Hugh, the Agent Manager, reporting to you |

**Q: Is Agentsourcing just outsourcing with AI?**
A: It fills the same need, but the differences are the point. The workers are AI, not a third-party team. The work happens in your own workspace where you can watch it. And the manager, Hugh, is accountable to you, not to a vendor. You get the leverage of outsourcing without the distance.

**Q: How does pricing compare to an outsourcing contract?**
A: Plans are monthly, with no placement fees and no seat minimums. The Transition row (Hugh plus a human partner) runs $500 to $2,000 a month, card on file and paid at the end of the first month; Agent add-ons run from $250 for an assistant to $6,000 for an org-wide Agent team. Above $25,000 a year we move to a sales conversation.

**Q: What about quality control?**
A: Hugh onboards each Agent with your standards, runs regular check-ins, and holds the bar. And because the work happens in your workspace, nothing hides behind a weekly status report.

## The Grok Bot alternative for people who run a business (https://humanager.ai/grok-bot-alternative)

Grok Bot (SpaceXAI, formerly xAI, August 2026) runs always-on AI agents on a persistent cloud computer for engineers and power users, bundled with SuperGrok Heavy or Cursor subscriptions. huManager is the managed alternative for business owners and teams: Agents come trained, managed, and accountable, work through governed connections instead of borrowed logins, keep an inspectable memory that is benchmark-tested, and operate under approvals and spending caps. Grok Bot details reflect its public launch materials as of August 2026.

| | Grok Bot | huManager |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Built for | Engineers and power users. Access is bundled with SuperGrok Heavy or Cursor coding subscriptions | People who run a business and want the work done without adding headcount |
| Your logins | Bots sign into your accounts on a shared cloud computer. Their docs say not to treat separate Bots as a security boundary | Agents work through governed connections you approve, one tool at a time. We never ask for your passwords |
| Memory | Bots retain context across conversations. Their docs describe the behavior, not how it works | Every Agent keeps a memory you can open, add to, and prune, and we run benchmark tests to verify that what an Agent learns changes how it works |
| Seeing the work | Chat transcripts. An audit view of Bot actions is listed in their docs as coming | A live activity feed, the reasoning behind every pickup, and reviews you can read any time |
| Approvals | Allow once or always allow, plus plain-text rules applied per device | Earned trust. New Agents propose everything; autonomy grows only as the track record does |
| Spending | Weekly allowance, with opt-in on-demand billing past it. Their docs note there is no Grok Bot specific spending cap yet | Budgets on every session, every project, and the account, and work that stops making progress is paused automatically |
| Management | You supervise the Bots yourself | Hugh, the Agent Manager, hires, onboards, and reviews your Agents, and reports to you |
| Price to start | $120 to $300 per month, inside a SuperGrok Heavy or Cursor plan | Monthly plans from $250, no bundle required |

**Q: Is huManager a Grok Bot alternative?**
A: For a business owner or a small team, yes. Both put AI teammates to work on real jobs. Grok Bot is built for technical users who want their agents to have a cloud computer and are comfortable supervising it themselves. huManager is built for people who run a business: the Agents come managed, reviewed, and accountable, and you never hand over a password.

**Q: Do huManager Agents work on their own like always-on Bots?**
A: Yes. Once an Agent has earned your trust, approve a project once and it picks up the work, keeps going while you are away, and comes back when something needs your judgment. New Agents start by proposing their work until that trust is earned. Every pickup shows its reasoning, and spending is capped at the session, project, and account level, so autonomy never means a surprise bill.

**Q: What does Grok Bot cost compared to huManager?**
A: Grok Bot is not sold on its own. As of August 2026 it requires SuperGrok Heavy at $300 per month, Cursor Ultra at $200, or Cursor Teams Premium at $120 per seat. huManager plans start at $250 per month for an assistant and $800 for a full-time Agent, and every plan includes Hugh, the Agent Manager.

**Q: Grok Bot signs into websites with your logins. Can huManager do that?**
A: We made a different choice on purpose. huManager Agents work through governed connections to tools like Gmail, Google Drive, Sheets, and Slack, where every write can require your approval and access can be revoked cleanly. We do not borrow your logins to drive a browser, because for a business account the safety of that trade matters more than the reach.