The arithmetic

What one hire actually costs.

Not an argument. A ledger. The left sheet is Swedish employment law; the right sheet is a staff that never clocks out. Draw your own conclusion at the bottom.

Exhibit A · one junior hire, Sweden
Monthly salary, junior office role35,000 kr
Employer fee (arbetsgivaravgift 31.42%)+ 10,997 kr
Vacation pay, pension, insurance, tools+ 3,000–7,000 kr
Real monthly cost≈ 49,000–53,000 kr
Contracted hours40 h / week
Hours actually at the desk*≈ 32–35 h / week
Answers email at 03:18no
Remembers every customer, foreverno
Notice period when it doesn't work out1–3 months

*Vacation (25 days by law), sick days and meetings come out of the same 40 hours. The 31.42% employer fee is the statutory Swedish rate. Scale the sheet to your own salary levels; the shape stays the same.

Exhibit B · a KLADDS instance
Specialists on shift22
Hours on shift24 / 7
Employer fee0 kr
Vacation, sick days, notice periodnone
AI computeat cost, your keys
Setup + monthly retainerscoped on the call
Designed to landbelow one hire
Answers email at 03:18drafts it, you stamp it
Remembers every customer, foreveryes, that's the point

No public price list while we are in closed rollout, because every instance is scoped to what we take off your plate. In writing: the retainer is designed to sit below the real cost of the hire in Exhibit A, and compute is billed at cost on your own accounts. You see every öre.

The point, plainly

A hire gives you 40 contracted hours of one skill set, plus employer fees, vacation and a notice period. An instance gives you a coordinated staff on shift around the clock, with a human approval queue so nothing ships without your stamp. If the retainer sits below the hire, the question isn't the price. It's whether you believe the output. That part we prove on a call, not on this page.

Honest footnotes

  • The 31.42% arbetsgivaravgift and 25 vacation days are Swedish statutory figures. The overhead band is a conservative range; common total-cost rules of thumb land at 1.4× salary or higher.
  • This is not "fire your team" math. It's "the next hire you can't quite justify" math. KLADDS works best next to people, taking the repetitive 80% so the humans keep the judgement calls.
  • An AI staff without supervision is a liability, which is why the approval queue is not optional. You are the editor-in-chief; the staff does the typing.