Compare · vs Another Hire
When the team is overwhelmed, the default move is to hire. Sometimes that is the right answer. Often it spreads the same broken process thinner. Here is the honest test for which one your business needs.
| Prudence | Another Hire | |
|---|---|---|
| Loaded annual cost (year one) | Prudence £14,340/yr + £995 setup (£1,195/month, one flat fee for both modules). Bespoke POA. | £30,000 to £45,000 loaded for a junior. £45,000 to £70,000 for mid-level. Plus recruitment fee £3,000 to £7,000. Plus onboarding time from existing team. |
| Time to value | Two weeks from Discovery to live. | Three to six months. Recruitment cycle, notice, onboarding, learning your business. They are not fully productive until month four typically. |
| What problem it solves | Holds the commercial spine of every job. Estimates go out margin-checked. Supplier costs get caught, tagged and recharged before you bill. Existing team capacity stops being spent on the admin between pitch and pay. | More capacity on whatever the new person is hired to do. Usually client work, delivery, sales. |
| What problem it does not solve | If the team genuinely lacks hands for client work, Prudence does not add hands. It removes the admin between pitch and pay. Hands are still the limit. | If the team is buried in admin, the new hire is too. The broken process is now broken across more people. |
| Risk | No hire risk. Monthly rolling. Cancel any time after Setup. If it does not work for your business, you know within a month. | Hire risk. Bad hires happen. Notice periods, redundancy conversations, lost productivity. Visa complications. Six months to know if it has worked. |
| Scaling | Same £1,195/month whether the team is 5 or 50 people. Bespoke steps in for higher volume, multi-entity or industry-specific needs. | Adds with each new hire. Two hires double the recruitment, two annual salaries, two onboarding burdens. |
| What it does best alongside | Prudence is best before any hire. It lets you ask honestly whether the hire is still needed. | A hire is best after admin is sorted. They walk into systems that run. |
