A first hire is $60,000 a year and up before tax, tools, and the desk — more in most cities, and a good deal more in Stockholm once the employer's share is counted. A contractor is $50 to $150 an hour, and you still write the brief.
Garry's Starter plan is $20/mo. The whole price becomes work balance: the company's dedicated server comes off it first, and every remaining cent buys model time at what the provider charges. There is no markup on either, and Garry does not take a fee on the payments you collect.
A hire needs six weeks to be useful and a year to be trusted, and takes what they learned with them when they leave.
Garry starts with office hours: it looks your company up, challenges the idea, and files a plan you can argue with. The first run drafts your first week. Every decision, lesson and customer after that is written into the company brain, and the Sunday retro writes back what the week taught. It does not forget, and it does not resign.
With a hire: everything you care about, whenever it comes up, in whatever shape it arrives.
With Garry: everything, on purpose — but as drafts, with evidence, in one queue. An email, a pull request, a post, a change to the brain. You approve, reject, or edit and approve. Nothing is sent, merged, published, or spent otherwise. Routine work can graduate to running on its own once you have approved it unchanged enough times; consequential work never does.
Judgment with no written trail. Relationships. The meeting, the phone call, the room. Anything that needs a person to be present rather than a draft to be right. Garry is not a replacement for the person who decides; it is the staff around that person.
Hire when the work needs a face. Until then, hand it to Garry and keep the decision.