Let me tell you what June and July actually look like for me.

Monday I fly to Florida for work. The week after I'm in Georgia, then off to Utah for a Women Build AI retreat. Three holidays. Then more travel through July. All of this while I'm finishing my master's in data science, raising a 6 and 3-year-old, and running Seed & Society®, including the homestead, on ten acres in Tennessee.

And I refuse to give up reading my romance novels (finished 3 this week 💅🏽). I'm starting my late summer garden, going IN on perennials this year. I've been watching anime. I'm living my actual life, on purpose, because that's the entire point of building systems that don't need me hovering over them.

Which is why this weekend I built my Chief of Staff.

The blog writer has been publishing daily for months. The podcast producer ships in five languages. The speaker booking agent has been sending pitches and running follow-up this spring, and it's the reason I'm booked to speak this fall. The social media director turns one idea into a week of posts. The grants manager finds money I'd never look for on my own.

They were all running. What they weren't doing was talking to each other. So I built the employee that ties them together. One brief every morning. One view of what's moving and what needs me. Instead of checking six things, I check one. I built it so I could be even more redundant in my own business and stay consistent at 5 hours per month.

4 Questions to Ask Before Hiring ANY Employee

Before any employee can work for you, AI or otherwise, you need to answer four things. Because your business only works if you're clear on what you're actually building.

1. Who exactly are you serving? Not "business owners." The specific person. The consultant in Lagos doing $15K a month who spends half her week on proposals she could automate. Get specific enough that you could describe them to a stranger in one sentence.

2. What's the one problem you solve, and what does life look like on the other side? The problem and the transformation. Both. When they're that clear, every hire you make, human or AI, becomes obvious because you know exactly what the desired outcome is.

3. What are you optimizing for, and what's the number? "More money" is not a measurable target. "Consistent $35K months by December" is. The number is what turns a wish into a strategy.

4. What's your strategy for that one thing? Not all your things. This one. If you can't describe the strategy in a few sentences, you don't have one yet, and hiring an employee that also has to provide the strategy is expensive.

The clarity is what makes the hire obvious. See the first eight AI employees you'll be able to hire at seedandsociety.com/labs. Every one is coming this summer, currently in beta testing.