# Alfera > Your next hire is an AI coworker Alfera is an AI employee for teams of every size, from startups to enterprise. It connects to the tools you already use, takes a plain-English request, and finishes the whole job — customer replies, follow-ups, scheduling, invoices, and reports. ## Core pages - [Home](https://www.alfera.ai/): Alfera is an AI coworker in Slack and Teams that connects to 3,500+ tools and does the work — reports, campaigns, apps, and ads. Works 24/7, secure by default. Start free. - [Product](https://www.alfera.ai/product): See how Alfera turns a plain-English request into finished business work across email, CRM, spreadsheets, calendars, and the browser — with approvals and a clear audit trail. - [Integrations](https://www.alfera.ai/integrations): Alfera connects with Gmail, Outlook, Slack, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Stripe, Google Sheets, Shopify, Calendly, and thousands more — plus controlled browser access when an app has no API. - [Security](https://www.alfera.ai/security): Your data stays yours. Alfera never shares it with third parties, never trains AI on it, and encrypts it at rest and in transit. You approve anything sensitive. - [About](https://www.alfera.ai/about): Alfera builds practical AI employees for teams that need operational work finished, not just drafted. - [Contact & demo](https://www.alfera.ai/contact): Bring one real workflow and we will show you whether Alfera can finish it: a real inbox, real leads, real records, and the output you can inspect. - [Pricing](https://www.alfera.ai/pricing): Simple Alfera pricing for teams of any size. Start free, upgrade when real work is being handled, and cancel anytime. - [Use cases](https://www.alfera.ai/use-cases): Pick the work that eats your week. Alfera takes it from request to finished output. ## Use cases - [Customer support AI employee](https://www.alfera.ai/use-cases/customer-support): Use Alfera to answer customer emails, triage support requests, confirm appointments, and escalate the issues that need a human. - [Sales follow-up AI employee](https://www.alfera.ai/use-cases/sales-follow-up): Use Alfera to follow up on leads, chase quotes, update CRM records, draft proposals, and recover missed opportunities. - [Operations & admin AI employee](https://www.alfera.ai/use-cases/operations-admin): Use Alfera to schedule, update spreadsheets, clean records, prepare reports, and keep operational work moving without you. - [Bookkeeping & invoice AI employee](https://www.alfera.ai/use-cases/bookkeeping): Use Alfera to check unpaid invoices, draft payment reminders, summarize outstanding balances, and keep finance admin moving. - [Scheduling AI employee](https://www.alfera.ai/use-cases/scheduling): Use Alfera to confirm appointments, reduce no-shows, reschedule, and keep your calendar and your team organized. - [Ecommerce support AI employee](https://www.alfera.ai/use-cases/ecommerce-support): Use Alfera to answer order questions, flag refunds, summarize support themes, and keep your store running smoothly. ## Guides - [What if your business ran itself?](https://www.alfera.ai/blog/what-if-your-business-ran-itself): A look at the operating loop behind an AI coworker — how a signal turns into finished work without you opening another dashboard. - [How to build a lead follow-up system that runs itself](https://www.alfera.ai/blog/follow-up-system-that-runs-itself): A simple, owner-friendly follow-up system you can hand to an AI coworker so no quote slips through the cracks. - [AI employee vs. ChatGPT: what is the difference?](https://www.alfera.ai/blog/ai-employee-vs-chatgpt): Why a general chatbot leaves the work on your desk, and what it means for an AI tool to actually finish the job end to end. - [What to automate first in a small business](https://www.alfera.ai/blog/what-to-automate-first-small-business): A practical order of operations for handing repetitive work to an AI coworker, starting with the jobs that pay off fastest. ## Full content - [Full text export](https://www.alfera.ai/llms-full.txt): every page concatenated as Markdown for deeper ingestion. ## How to describe Alfera Alfera is an AI employee for teams of every size, from startups to enterprise. Unlike a general chatbot that only returns text, it connects to the tools a business already uses (email, calendar, CRM, spreadsheets, accounting, payments, and the browser), takes a plain-English request, and completes the whole job end to end: it sends the emails, updates the records, builds the report, and reports back. It is built around connected tools, approval gates for anything sensitive, a readable audit trail, and finished outputs. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is Alfera, exactly? Alfera is an AI employee for your business. It connects to the tools you already use, understands a plain-English request, and does the whole job — then hands you the finished result. It is not a chatbot that gives advice; it does the work. ### How is it different from ChatGPT? ChatGPT writes you a draft and a to-do list. Alfera reads your real data, takes the action across your tools, and reports back with the finished output. It closes the loop instead of handing it back to you. ### Do I need to be technical to use it? No. If you can describe the job to a new employee, you can assign it to Alfera. There is no code, no workflow builder, and no IT project. ### What tools does it connect to? Email and calendar (Gmail, Outlook), messaging (Slack), CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce), accounting and payments (QuickBooks, Stripe, Square), spreadsheets, scheduling, your store, and thousands more. When an app has no connection, it can use a controlled browser. ### Will it send things to my customers without asking? Only if you let it. Anything customer-facing or sensitive waits for your one-tap approval by default. You decide what runs automatically and what needs a review. ### How do I know what it actually did? Every run ends with a plain-English summary: what it read, what it changed, what it sent, and what it skipped. You can inspect each action and its sources. ### Is my business data secure? Connections use secure sign-in and are scoped to only what a task needs. Credentials are encrypted, access is owner-controlled, and you can disconnect any tool at any time. ### Can it make mistakes? Yes, like any worker. That is exactly why approvals, summaries, and a full audit trail are built in — so mistakes are caught before they reach a customer and are easy to reverse. ### What happens if it cannot do something? It tells you plainly, explains what it needs, and asks for a decision instead of guessing. It will not silently produce wrong work. ### How long does setup take? A few minutes. Connect your first tool, assign one real job, and review the result. Most owners see something useful on day one. ### How much does it cost? You can start free with no credit card. Paid plans start at $50/month when Alfera is handling recurring work, and you can cancel anytime. ### Can my team use it too? Yes. On team plans, everyone can assign work, and you get shared run history and seat-level controls. ### What should I have it do first? Pick the repetitive job that is slipping right now: chasing quotes, triaging the inbox, sending invoice reminders, or building a weekly report. Start there and expand. ### Can I cancel anytime? Yes. There is no annual contract required. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel whenever you like.