Vanessa, or Nessa as she was called by most, was pretty sure her job was among the strangest a woman could hold in her field.

As a business/product manager with a focus on specialized markets and models she was often involved in some pretty interesting work on a global scale. Previously that meant working with a company that shipped various livestock and farming-related equipment to suppliers, but that industry quickly wore on her.

After five years with the farming company saw her helping push it to the top of its market, the 27 year old was offered the position of head product manager for a much more fun, albeit extremely weird company called Ownot.

Ownot is a global company that manufactured some of the most highly advanced robotics in the world. However, though they did have branches that focused on things like vehicular advancement and medical machinery, they were most well known for their recreational products.

The most prominent of Ownot’s creations to ever hit the open market at a regular consumer level was the ever popular Doxy, a series of lifelike and customizable robotic women who could be fully programmed to act as if they were normal people. Nessa joined the company not long after the initial prototypes were revealed at a tradeshow, though back then she was still nothing more than a generic businesswoman looking for a change of scenery.

No. The real revelation for both Nessa and the Doxy line came during an internal meeting held nine months after she had joined.

Ownot was more than happy with the progress of Doxy as a whole, but higher ups within the company were still heavily debating how to make use of the robots as an actual product. There were many who wanted to simply put the more general models up for sale online and at company showrooms around the world, while others were debating about selling the designs to partners and helping revolutionize the more labor-intensive industries that were seeing declines in worker applications.

It wasn’t until Nessa spoke up on behalf of her region that things changed forever.

Instead of going with a cut and dry showroom approach or potentially causing a global incident with labor workers, why not maximize on the middle ground?

Over the next several hours, Nessa flew by the seat of her skirt suit and described the rapidly forming idea of selecting areas with high levels of illegal sexual activity and placing specialized showrooms in strategic locations that would focus on showcasing Doxy models. These models could then be rented as a more classy form of hostess, god forbid she use the word prostitute in front of her bosses, while still operating as a completely legal way to profit from said rentals and sales.

Each store would have specialized computers capable of programming the general Doxy model to fit any customer’s need. And should they want to, they could order specific models from local distribution centers for an increased fee.

As a bonus, any renter would receive a small discount should they end up purchasing the same Doxy model they decided on following the end of their agreed upon rental time.

The company was optimistic that Nessa’s idea would work, but would have to dig into the legality of running what essentially broke down to a robotic rental service specializing in sexual activity.

Flash forward two weeks and the noirette was now the senior business manager for a rapidly expanding business plan that had already started mapping out locations for the first Doxy showrooms, with the big pay raise and bonuses that came along with it too.

Following her breakthrough, Nessa threw herself into her work, getting to know the leads of each team under her umbrella and many of the developers behind the original Doxy prototypes that led them all to that point. She got along swimmingly with everyone, which made her division’s efficiency skyrocket as they pushed onward and eventually launched the first 25 stores within eight months of starting the project.

All but two of the stores were instant successes, marking every available Doxy unit as either rented or sold by the end of their opening weekends. The other stores soon followed, leading Ownot to greenlight the next wave of Doxy locations to launch in the next calendar year.

It only took two years for Doxy to become a household name as it expanded beyond its initial frame of business. Within those two years, Doxy models had become commonplace in rich households as maids, toys, or even pets. Male variants had launched, giving the female demographic something to use, and Ownot had even acquired several leading sex toy companies, merging them into the growing Doxy division to launch more traditional products and ensure a monopoly in the market.

For her part, Nessa was loving everything about her job. Not only was she making bank as one of the business leaders within Ownot, but she had grown to be extremely passionate about her work with the Doxy division. Many within the company, especially in her division gave her the nickname Queen Doxy, having been the driving force behind many of the innovations that put the product, brand, and division on top of the niche robotics world.

Now, on the cusp of year four with Ownot and approaching her third anniversary as head of the Doxy division, Nessa was ready to take things even further.

… but in order to do that, she would need to get back to her roots and start experimenting at the ground level.