The headline numbers
One Agent Team lease:
- £6 per agent per day.
- £180 per agent per month (30-day month).
- £2,190 per agent per year.
No VAT (NordSys AI Services is below the UK VAT threshold). No setup fee. Two weeks free, cancel any time.
What an hour of UK admin costs
UK National Living Wage in 2026 is £12.21 per hour (age 21+). Add 13.8% employer National Insurance plus 3% pension and the real cost-to-employ for a minimum-wage admin hour is roughly £14.30 an hour. Higher if you’re paying anything above minimum — a junior PA on £14 an hour costs you closer to £16.40 fully loaded.
So £180 a month is the cost of:
- About 12.5 hours of minimum-wage admin (fully loaded).
- Or 11 hours of a junior PA on £14/hr.
- Or roughly 30 minutes a day, every day for a month.
Spend 30 minutes a day saving yourself admin and the agent has paid for itself before lunchtime on day one.
The honest other side: where the agent isn’t cheaper
Three cases where “just hire someone” is the right answer:
- You’re already at full admin capacity with a one-day-a-week bookkeeper, and that’s enough. If you’re paying £120 a month for someone who handles everything, you don’t need an agent. The agent is for when the workload has grown past what your current arrangement comfortably covers.
- The role you’d hire is high-trust, high-judgement. An agent will not replace your financial controller, your operations director, or the person you’d trust to take a hard call with a customer on your behalf. The lease replaces the second hire, not the lead.
- You like training people. If part of why you run a business is mentoring junior staff into bigger roles, that’s a human-only thing. An agent does the work; it doesn’t grow into a senior PA.
The cumulative shape
Where the maths gets interesting is when you stack agents. The home page covers this in passing; here are the actual figures.
| Agents leased | Per month | Per year | Cheapest staff-equivalent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £180 | £2,190 | ~12 hours/month of admin |
| 2 | £360 | £4,380 | ~25 hours/month, or a day a week of a junior |
| 3 | £540 | £6,570 | ~37 hours/month |
| 4 | £720 | £8,760 | ~50 hours/month, or three days a week of a junior |
| 5 | £900 | £10,950 | ~63 hours/month, or a part-time admin role |
For owner-operators with five agents in flight, you’re running roughly a part-time admin role on seven-day cover, with no holiday absences and no learning curve, for £900 a month. The closest direct replacement — a part-time admin on say £16,000 a year — would cost you about £1,540 a month fully loaded.
What “an hour saved” really looks like
Owner-operators tend to under-count the admin they do because most of it is fragmented — 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there, scattered across the day. The honest count is usually 1–2 hours.
A typical week from our trial customers:
- Inbox triage & replies: 4–7 hours saved.
- Payment chasing & reconciliation: 2–4 hours saved.
- Booking coordination & reminders: 2–3 hours saved.
- Content drafting: 2–5 hours saved.
One agent on the right job tends to save 5–10 hours a week. At a self-employed owner’s notional hourly rate (often £30–£60 once you account for what your time on real work would earn), one agent saves £800–£2,400 of effective time a month. The lease is £180.
The one-line answer.
£6 a day per agent is the cost of about 30 minutes of UK minimum-wage admin. If the agent saves you more than that — it usually saves an hour to two — you’re ahead from day one. No VAT, no setup, two weeks free, cancel any time.
Try the maths in your own week
Write down the slow admin you did in the last seven days. Add up the time. If it’s more than three hours a week, one agent will pay for itself in week one. If it’s more than seven hours a week, you’re probably ready for two.