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FAQ: answers on cost, data and setup.

Everything people ask us, in one place. Can't find yours? Ask us on a call.

Getting started

Do I need Slack?

No. Digital Minions works on its own, on your computer and your phone: Today, What needs you, chat with your minions, tasks and the Minion Mind, with phone alerts you can approve from. Already live in Slack? Your minions join you there too. See it on a phone.

Do I need to be technical?

No. We set it up with you, then show you how to lead the team. Setup is done with us on every plan. Compare the plans.

How fast can we start?

Pick your plan and we run the setup with you: Starter begins with any three minions, like Otto on your invoices or Miles on your newsletter, and Team with all of them. We set the timeline with you on the call.

Which AI models do they use?

Each minion runs on the model that suits its job, from several AI companies, or a model you host yourself. You can switch a minion's model without losing their memory. Any model.

What can each minion do?

Every minion has a job, skills and the tools they may use, and they ask before anything goes to a customer, gets published or costs money. Meet the team.

Cost

What does it cost?

Starter is $249 a month, Team $499 a month, and agencies and coaches pay $199 per client workspace a month (from 3). Setup is $1,500 for Starter and $3,000 for Team. Annual billing gets two months free (USD). See pricing.

What do the monthly costs cover?

Your plan includes the minions, Minion Minutes with its meeting hours, and your team's everyday AI work. Minion Mode (extra checking) has a monthly allowance. If a month is unusually heavy, we'll talk to you first; never a surprise charge. Dex, Pip, Mira, Send a Minion (40 notetaker hours a month, then $2 an hour) and the website chat are part of your plan; Nell, the front desk, is in your plan too, with call minutes included, then pay as you go. You set a monthly cap that warns you at 80%, and you can turn on a hard stop so paid work pauses at 100%.

Is Nell extra?

No. Nell, the front desk, is in every plan, with a phone number and Spanish included. Each month you get 150 call minutes on Starter, 400 on Team, or 100 per client workspace on Agency / Coach, pooled across all your clients. Past that you pay as you go: $0.20 a call minute. Website chats are fair use (300 a month on Starter, 1,000 on Team, 300 per client workspace), then $0.07 a chat. Calls under 15 seconds don't count, and a text with a photo counts as two. Meet Nell.

Can I limit what it spends?

Yes. A monthly cap warns you at 80% and can pause paid work at 100%, and you can say "Ask me before any job over $X". Spend limits.

Your data

Where does our data live?

Each business gets its own deployment and its own database, never pooled with other businesses. Passwords and sign-in keys for the apps you connect are stored encrypted. Security & privacy.

Who can see what?

Everyone sees what their role allows. Private chats and notes stay with their person, owners included. Our support login sees what an admin sees, never anything private, and an owner can remove it. Check the guest list.

Can anything go out without us?

No. Emailing a customer, publishing or spending waits for a person with the right role, checked on the server every time. Every change that matters goes in a tamper-evident audit log that only an owner can read.

Can we undo what the team learned?

Yes. The app keeps dated checkpoints of what the team knows, every day and before every risky change. Compare any two and restore one part, after a preview. Minion Memory.

Can a customer be forgotten?

Yes. Forget a customer in Digital Minions and their calls, texts, notes and record are deleted there, and their name and number are scrubbed everywhere else in the app. Restoring a backup or an import can't bring them back. Digital Minions also asks our phone carrier and Slack to delete their copies.

Does the AI train on our data?

Your team learns from your own corrections, and each lesson waits for your yes. Our AI providers process each request under their own terms, and each says it doesn't train its models on what we send through its paid service. Which providers handle what.

Is Digital Minions HIPAA-compliant?

No. It isn't built for patient information, so we don't serve health practices.

Nell, the front desk

Does Nell say she's an AI?

Yes, in her first sentence on every call, with the fact that the call is recorded. Her emails say so too.

Will Nell call people out of the blue?

No. She calls a new web lead only during calling hours, and only if they ticked your consent box and asked for a call.

What if Nell doesn't know the answer?

Urgent calls can be transferred to whoever is on call, and every call comes with a transcript and summary your team sees in the app (and a recording), so a question she couldn't answer doesn't get lost.

Does she know my kind of business?

She comes with a script pack for how your business works: clients and deadlines, sessions and programs, client projects, or jobs and visits, and she speaks Spanish too, included. Meet Nell.

Where they work

What is Minion Sidekick?

Our Chrome extension, which we install with you during setup: minions work in your own browser, where you're already signed in, and in the folders you choose. You grant each site; banking and payment sites are blocked. They hand back at any password, payment or CAPTCHA step, ask before saving, submitting, sending or deleting, and there's one off switch. Minion Sidekick.

What is Minion View?

The minions' own computer and browser in the cloud, never on your machine, one per job. Minions run code, crunch spreadsheets, make charts and files, and browse websites while you watch them work live. You approve the task once; sending, paying, deleting or submitting still asks. Signed-in work happens in the Team browser, one yes per task (we keep that site's session for the task, never the password), or in your own browser with Minion Sidekick. Minion View.

What is Show & Tell?

Minions show what they made: page previews, word diffs, charts from real data, printable documents and image galleries. You react with Nailed it, Close or Try again. Reactions teach the minion; they never approve anything. Show & Tell.

Does anything start before I agree to the plan?

No. Tell your minions what you're trying to do and they read it back as a plan: who does each part and which steps ask for your yes. Nothing sends, books, posts or spends until you say Looks right. Plan first.

What is the Brand memory?

The first of your Memories: your logo, colours, fonts and voice, filled from your website or a brand guide. Every post, ad, reply and web page follows it, and nothing new is used until you say yes. Brand memory.

What are Minion Musings?

Things your minions noticed in your real records that you never asked about, like questions customers keep asking or bills paid late. At most one a morning, with the evidence, and you decide what to do. Minion Musings.

Can the website chat make things up?

No. It answers only from what you've marked “OK for the public”, and passes anything else to you as a lead. Bookings wait for you to confirm them. Website chat.

Are there templates?

16 official templates. Installing one creates drafts only: nothing runs until a person approves it. See the templates.

Leaving

What happens to our data if we leave?

Your knowledge lives in your own private database as plain, readable records. The owner can export it at any time. When you leave, the owner gets an export to keep, then we delete your database, its backups and any off-site copies, and finish with a receipt of what was deleted.

Let's talk

Hand your first job to a minion.

Tell us about your business, your goals and what you'd hand off first. We'll show you the team that would take the most off your plate.