Comparison
IniDeck vs hiring an assistant
This is the decision most people are actually making. Not which software to buy, but whether to find a person to take the work off them.
What a person does better
A person exercises judgement, holds relationships, and handles the thing nobody anticipated. They can read a difficult client and decide to ring rather than email. They can notice that something feels wrong. IniDeck handles the routine and brings those moments to you, and anyone telling you software can replace that kind of judgement is selling. If your bottleneck is judgement, hire.
Side by side
Hiring someone
IniDeck
Cost
A part-time admin hire is typically $30,000 to $45,000 a year plus on-costs, before the time you spend managing them.
A monthly plan, for a fraction of what a part-time hire costs.
When it works
Business hours, minus leave, minus sick days, minus the handover when they move on.
Continuously. An enquiry at 9pm is picked up at 9pm, with the reply ready for you to approve.
Getting started
Weeks to learn your business, and what they learn leaves with them.
No weeks of training, and what it learns stays with your business.
Judgement
Real judgement about people and situations.
It makes the routine calls and brings you anything that needs yours.
Consistency
Human. Good days and bad days.
It follows the rules you set, without good days and bad days.
Scaling down
Difficult and personal.
Change or cancel your plan.
Which one you want
When the alternative fits
- Your work needs someone in a room with clients
- The bottleneck is decisions, not admin
- You have hands-on work that is physical or in person
- You can afford it and want the capacity now
When IniDeck fits
- You have hit your admin ceiling but not the revenue to hire
- The work is routine: enquiries, follow-ups, documents, records
- You want work moving at night and on weekends
- You would rather not manage anyone
Questions people ask
Could I do both?
Often the best answer. A new hire usually spends their first month on admin that should never have needed a person. Run IniDeck underneath and they do the work you hired them for.
Will it replace someone I already employ?
That is not what it is built for, and we would not pitch it that way. It takes routine work off the people you have, and gives businesses that are not ready to hire the capacity they are missing.
Decide with the real thing.
Your account is free. Choose a plan when you are ready to run your business on it.