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What you get and what you pay.

We employ the automation engineers, give them an office and equipment and keep their AI skills current. Staff augmentation and offshore staffing would leave that management with you. A service delivery manager agrees with you which workflow comes next.

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Junior level, full time, everything below included. Mid-level and senior levels are priced in your proposal. All 27 things included ››

  • Service

    We manage and develop the team

    • A service delivery manager who oversees operations and delivery
    • A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks
    • Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports
    • A Talent Success Manager for every team member
  • HR

    We are the employer

    • Recruitment and technical assessment
    • Employment contracts
    • Salary and payroll
    • Tax and social security
  • Facilitation

    We provide the workplace

    • A desk in our office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok
    • A Workplace Experience Manager on site
    • Team events through the year
    • IT support
  • Equipment

    We supply the tools

    • Laptop and hardware
    • Software licences
    • LinkedIn Learning access
    • Device security and management
Your AI automation engineer Salary and benefits ONE MONTHLY FEE Delivery management Talent Success Events and wellbeing Equipment Workplace HR

A dedicated AI automation team on one predictable monthly fee.

You agree a monthly capacity in hours with us. The fee covers the AI automation engineer's salary and every layer around it: the service delivery manager who oversees delivery, training and development, the workplace, the equipment and the HR behind the employment. It is the same amount every month.

  • One agreement and one invoice, with no upfront fee or management surcharge
  • Holidays are already priced in, so April and May cost the same
  • A capacity report every month, so you see the hours delivered
How the monthly fee is built →

Automation engineers, sourced for your processes.

We look for people who know the tools your workflows already run on, then put them through our assessment. You meet a shortlist, never a bench.

Before we start Alignment on your needs
  • Roles and seniority
  • Stack and domain
  • Way of working
  • Capacity and time to hire
Mikkel Schmidt, founder of Azendo, ready to talk about your dedicated offshore team John Mark of Azendo, ready to help you scope your dedicated offshore team Talk to our teamBook a scoping call
WEEK 1 Sourcing WEEK 2 AI processingand screening WEEK 3 Technical testing WEEK 4 Mindset, cultureand logic 25 headhunted for your brief 12 matched to your stack 5 pass technical testing 1 proposed to you
  1. 25 Week 1 Sourcing Headhunted for your brief
  2. 12 Week 2 AI processing and screening Matched to your stack
  3. 5 Week 3 Technical testing Pass technical testing
  4. 1 Week 4 Mindset, culture and logic Proposed to you

Who joins your dedicated AI automation team.

Automation, RPA, workflow and integration roles each have a page below. If a process needs an AI engineer or a data engineer too, they join the same team.

The jobs a dedicated AI automation team handles.

Companies hire AI agent developers when manual work piles up in support, finance or operations and off-the-shelf tools only cover part of it. The team maps one process, automates it with agent workflows and integrations, measures the hours it saves and moves on to the next. Guardrails come first: scoped tool access, human approval on important actions and alerts when something fails, all agreed before anything touches a live system.

  • Process mappingEach step of the workflow written down, with the exceptions, before anything is automated.
  • Agent workflowsAgents and workflows in n8n, Temporal or LangChain that do the repetitive steps.
  • IntegrationsYour CRM, helpdesk, finance tools and internal APIs connected through webhooks and APIs.
  • Guardrails and human reviewScoped access, approval steps and limits on what an agent may do on its own.
  • MonitoringLogs, alerts and failure reports, so a stuck workflow is noticed in minutes.
  • MeasurementHours saved and error rates tracked per workflow, so you see what each one returns.

Stacks we work in

We hire for the systems your processes run on, whether they are listed here or not.

Orchestration
  • LangChain
  • n8n
  • Temporal
  • Zapier
  • Make
Integrations
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • Webhooks
  • Slack API
  • Google Workspace APIs
Monitoring
  • Logging
  • Guardrails
  • Human-in-the-loop review
  • Datadog
  • Sentry

What a dedicated AI automation team is.

A dedicated AI automation team is a group of engineers who automate one company's workflows, full time, with AI, RPA and integrations. They take one process at a time from manual to automated and keep it running. You choose the order, and Azendo employs the engineers and runs delivery with you.

Where it pays off most

It pays off when the same manual work runs every day across your teams: documents to read, records to copy between systems, requests to route. Each automated workflow frees time, and the engineers who built it stay to maintain it and to take on the next one.

Who is on the team

  • AI automation engineerAgent workflows and integrations
  • RPA developerRobotic process automation
  • Workflow automation specialistManual work mapped and replaced
  • Integration engineerAPIs, events and middleware
  • Service delivery managerOversees delivery on our side and reviews it with you every two weeks
  • Talent Success managerFor every specialist: a quarterly development plan and coaching tailored to it
  • Your product ownerSets the priorities and accepts the work

Other ways to build an AI automation team, compared.

Dedicated AI automation team compared with staff augmentation and project outsourcing
Dedicated team, AzendoStaff augmentationProject outsourcing
What you buyAgreed monthly capacity from people who work only on your productA person's hours, billed by the hour or the monthA defined scope, at a fixed price or on time and materials
Who manages the teamAzendo, day to day, with you setting the prioritiesYou do, day to day: Azendo's estimate is four to eight hours a week per specialistThe vendor's project manager
Who answers for deliveryAzendo, scored by you every FridayYou doThe vendor, against the agreed scope
How long people stayOn your product, and with Azendo for 3.3 years on averageUntil the contract endsUntil the project is handed over
Best fitA list of processes to automate, one after anotherA short gap in a team you already runOne project with a clear end

"We are 100% committed in a partnership. We go above and beyond, which is why we can say that it is truly a managed service we offer."

Mikkel Schmidt, CEO and founder

Mikkel Schmidt, founder of Azendo, which builds dedicated AI automation teams

Questions about a dedicated AI automation team.

What does a dedicated AI automation team do?

It automates your internal processes full time, one workflow at a time: process mapping, agent workflows, integrations, guardrails and monitoring. With Azendo the engineers are ours, managed from Chiang Mai and Bangkok, and they work in your systems under your access rules.

How much does it cost to hire AI agent developers this way?

AI automation engineers, RPA developers, workflow automation specialists and integration engineers start from USD 2,400 per month at junior level, full time. Delivery management, a Talent Success Manager and AI training, the office and equipment, and HR and payroll are all in that fee. See how the monthly fee is built.

Which process should we automate first?

One that repeats often, follows clear rules and costs real hours, such as ticket triage, invoice matching or data entry between systems. The team maps it with the people who do the work today, then automates the parts that are safe to hand over.

What happens when an agent gets something wrong?

The guardrails decide. Important actions wait for a person to approve them, every run is logged, and a failure sends an alert to the right owner. Limits on what an agent may do on its own are agreed with you before it goes live.

Which tools does the team use?

n8n, Temporal, LangChain, Zapier and Make for orchestration, with your own APIs, webhooks, Slack and Google Workspace. Datadog or Sentry watch the runs. The engineers pick what fits your systems and keep every automation in your accounts, documented for whoever maintains it next.

How is AI automation different from AI engineering?

AI automation applies AI to your internal work. AI engineering builds AI features into the product your customers use. A dedicated AI engineering team can join under the same agreement when your plans cover both. For automations delivered as a project, with a fixed build price, our AI automation services are the better fit.

Do we keep control of our systems?

Yes. The automations run in your accounts, with the access you grant, and you can switch any workflow off. Our managers keep out of your systems; tracked hours, your Friday score and the monthly report tell them how delivery is going.

Do the automation engineers work remotely?

Yes. They are employed by Azendo and work full time on your processes, in your systems and automation tools with the access you grant. Expect them in our offices most of the week; their home days, two at most, run through a secure VPN.

Service areas that join an AI automation team.

Each role joins under the same agreement, works in the same sprints and reports to the same service delivery manager. You add one when your product calls for it.

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