An offshore AI Operator from Offshored costs A$2,450 to A$5,500 per month across three tiers, all-inclusive, and runs your AI tools and automations full time inside your own systems, under your checkpoints, in Australian business hours.
One dedicated person, recruited by Offshored and assessed against the published Offshored AI Operator Standard, who runs the AI tooling your business already pays for. Every placement carries a 30-day proficiency warranty, and licences, tokens and data stay on your accounts.
An offshore AI Operator is closer to disciplined operations than to data science. Most Australian businesses that come to us have already bought AI tooling, a ChatGPT or Claude business plan, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini in Google Workspace, an automation platform such as GoHighLevel or Zapier, and nobody on the team has the hours to run it properly. The AI Operator is the person who does.
A typical day starts with the queue of work your business has agreed to hand to AI tooling: first drafts of customer emails and proposals, summaries of long documents, meeting notes turned into actions, data cleaned and categorised for a report, and the automations that move records between your systems. The AI Operator prepares the inputs, runs the tool, then checks the output against the source before it goes anywhere near a customer or a decision. Output verification is the heaviest-weighted domain in the Standard, because unverified AI output is the largest source of harm we see.
Between tasks they keep the prompt library and templates current, maintain the approved tool list, log what was done inside your systems so every AI-assisted task has a record, and flag anything a tool got wrong. Once a month they report against the baseline taken before anything changed, so you can see whether the role is paying for itself.
Many AI Operators carry a core role too. At the first tier the person may be an AI-capable administrator, bookkeeper or support specialist who runs approved tools alongside their normal work. Senior AI Operators build and maintain the automations and workflows, and an AI Pod Lead designs and manages AI-assisted workflows for a whole team.
Start with the first column and add the second as trust builds. Your team member follows your procedures and your approval limits, documented during onboarding.
Your software, your licences. Offshored supplies no software and resells no AI credits: licences, tokens and data stay on your accounts, the AI Operator works only from your approved tool list, and every action is logged inside your own systems. Ask for the Standard on the call and we will send it.
An offshore AI Operator from Offshored costs A$2,450 to A$5,500 per month. That is one flat, all-inclusive fee per full-time team member, invoiced monthly in advance, in the AI Operator roles band on our pricing page.
| Item | Offshore AI Operator |
|---|---|
| Monthly fee | A$2,450 to A$5,500 per month |
| AI Operator tier | From A$2,450 per month. Runs approved tools on defined tasks, usually alongside a core role such as administration, bookkeeping or customer support |
| Senior AI Operator tier | A$3,000 to A$3,600 per month. Builds and maintains automations and prompt workflows, and supports other staff using the tools |
| AI Pod Lead tier | A$4,500 to A$5,500 per month. Designs and manages AI-assisted workflows for a team and owns the monthly measurement |
| What is included | Everything: recruitment and vetting, employment in the Philippines by Australian Pathways OPC, salary, Philippine income tax and statutory contributions (SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG), 13th month pay, paid leave, HMO health insurance, payroll, timekeeping, HR and performance management, office space and equipment for office based team members, and replacement at our cost if the person leaves, plus assessment against the Offshored AI Operator Standard and the 30-day proficiency warranty |
| What is not included | AI subscriptions, tokens and automation platform licences, which stay on your accounts |
| Fees | No recruitment, placement or setup fees. One monthly invoice from Offshored Pty Ltd, an Australian company |
The full band table, including the standard roles an AI Operator can sit alongside, is on the pricing page. For what sits behind the numbers, read the 2026 offshore staff cost guide.
What Offshored looks for when shortlisting an offshore AI Operator for an Australian business:
You interview the shortlisted candidates yourself, with the evidence pack in front of you, and make the final decision.
Your offshore AI Operator works a full eight-hour day, Monday to Friday, at the times you set in your Australian time zone. Manila is two hours behind Sydney for most of the year, so the overlap is complete: they are online when you are, from your first coffee to close of business.
| Your office | Manila is behind by | Your 9am to 5pm day in Manila time |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart | 2 hours (3 hours in daylight saving, October to April) | 7:00am to 3:00pm (6:00am to 2:00pm in daylight saving) |
| Brisbane and Queensland | 2 hours, all year | 7:00am to 3:00pm |
| Adelaide | 1.5 hours (2.5 hours in daylight saving) | 7:30am to 3:30pm (6:30am to 2:30pm in daylight saving) |
| Darwin | 1.5 hours, all year | 7:30am to 3:30pm |
| Perth | No difference, same time as Manila | 9:00am to 5:00pm |
Team members work Australian public holidays unless the day is also a Philippine holiday, and Offshored gives you two business days' notice of any Philippine holiday that affects your team member's schedule. Every shift is logged on our timekeeping platform. See the FAQ on the Sydney to Manila time difference.
They work through the tasks your business has handed to AI tooling: first drafts, summaries, data preparation and automations, and they check every output against the source before it is used. They keep the prompt library and approved tool list current, log the work inside your systems and report monthly against a baseline taken before the role started.
Yes. Offshored supplies no software and resells no AI credits. Your AI Operator works inside the tools and accounts you already own, so licences, tokens and data stay with your business, and the fee of A$2,450 to A$5,500 a month covers the person, not the software.
Every AI Operator placement carries a 30-day proficiency warranty. If the person is not at the competency agreed at the start by day 30, Offshored replaces them at no cost. Performance is also measured monthly against the baseline, so you see the results rather than taking them on trust.
Pick a time and William Smith, Offshored's co-founder, phones you. We scope the role, give you the monthly cost band and tell you honestly whether offshore staff will work for your business. No lock-in, no obligation.
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