How Paulean works, what it costs, how we keep your data secure, and how we compare to a traditional EA or VA service.
About Paulean
Paulean is a subscription for growing businesses. Instead of hiring an executive assistant, sales coordinator, social media manager, and seven other roles separately, you get all of them under one monthly subscription. Human experts backed by AI, molded to your business through one onboarding call. Starts at $149 a month.
On our end, a task is typically about an hour of work. A straightforward request like submitting an application is 1 task. A finished social media post is usually 2 tasks because it takes about two hours end to end. Roughly, the Starter plan gives you seven hours of work each month.
It depends. Simple pieces of work fit inside a single task. Bigger projects take more. A winning government contract bid, for example, often includes RFP engagement calls, outreach to partners to strengthen the bid, and prep work like setting up SBA or minority-owned certifications. The cleanest way to size a project is to start on a plan, drop the details into Paulean, and the team will review the scope and give you an estimated task count before doing any work.
Pricing and plans
Starts at $149 a month (Starter, 7 tasks). Explorer is $399 (about 22 tasks). Essential is $799 (about 50 tasks). Partner is $1,999 (8 hours a day, weekdays). Elite is $2,399 (12 hours a day weekdays or 8 hours a day 7 days). ElitePlus is $2,999 (12 hours a day, 7 days).
You can cancel any future month at any time from your account. The current month is not refundable and unused days do not roll over. No long-term contract.
Yes. Upgrade or downgrade at any time. Your team stays the same. Changes take effect on the next billing cycle.
We finish the work already in flight so nothing gets dropped mid-project. If you regularly hit the ceiling, we will suggest an upgrade before the next month starts. You never get surprise bills.
Getting started
One onboarding call and Paulean is ready.
How it works
The human on your account handles judgment calls, calls with real people, form filling, and anything that would sound wrong from a bot. The AI accelerates the repetitive work: drafting, research, formatting, data cleanup. You get the trust of a human relationship and the speed of an AI-powered workflow.
WhatsApp, text, email, and the Paulean app (coming soon). Reach us however you already work.
Yes. Paulean prefers Google Workspace but works in whatever you already use — Microsoft 365, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, QuickBooks, and more.
Through the onboarding call and every interaction after. How you write, who you prioritize, your travel choices, how you like meetings run — all captured and applied automatically. New team members inherit your preferences on day one, not week four.
Yes. All team members are under NDA. Passwords live in Keeper Security, a zero-knowledge password manager with AES-256 encryption, SOC 2 (10+ years), ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, HIPAA compliant, and FedRAMP High Authorization. Keeper itself cannot decrypt or view what is stored. We do not train third-party AI models on your data.
Comparisons
A regular service takes weeks to months. You write requirements, review candidates, run interviews, get matched, sit through a ramp period. If you don't like their style, you start the whole process over. Paulean is one onboarding call, and the team is running. When you want to change the tone, response style, or priorities, you tell us and we adapt. Iteration in feedback, not in re-hiring.
Athena pairs you with one executive assistant for around $3,000 a month after weeks of matching. Paulean gives you an entire team across ten or more roles, one subscription, after one onboarding call, starting at $149 a month. See the full comparison.
BELAY assigns you a single assistant or specialist per role, hired separately, priced privately. Paulean gives you an entire team across ten or more roles under one subscription, starting at $149 a month. You can add roles instantly instead of running a separate BELAY hiring process for each. See the full comparison.
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