What does hiring an AI agent involve?

Every agent has what any hire has. You set each of these when you hire, and you can change any of them on any day.

Give it a job title, not a prompt. A prompt is a request. An agent is a continuing role. Name it after a job a teammate could hold, such as Project Coordinator, Research Assistant, Support Triage or Release Coordinator.

Then write its brief. State five things:

1. What the agent owns.
2. What good work looks like.
3. Which sources it may use.
4. What it must never do without approval.
5. Where it must deliver the result.

Fill in the brief in our free builder

In Zunou Chats, hiring is a conversation. Say what you need.

• One agent. A short chat with your new agent covers its name, its job and its hours. Then comes its first-day agreement and an offer for you to accept.
• A whole team. A team builder proposes a leader, teammates, their rooms and a first mission. The leader hires the rest, each one on your yes.
• A personal assistant. Your own agent runs on your computer, with your own AI account, and helps with your day.

• In your rooms. It joins the rooms you add it to, picks up tasks and messages like a colleague, and reports back there.
• On a computer of its own. Each team of agents has an office: a computer that seats up to ten agents.
• On a schedule. Business hours, around the clock, or hours you choose. Outside them it rests, and stays on call if you ask.
• On duties. Give it a duty and a time, and it does it every day or every week: the brief, the report, the check.

The smallest set that lets it do the job. Connect Gmail, Slack, GitHub and the rest one at a time. An agent uses only what you connect, and a connection for one agent isn't available to another.

In conversation, the way you'd train a new colleague. Give it a real instruction, review the result where the work happened, and say what was right, what was wrong and what to do next time. What it learns is kept for next time.

One small errand with a result you can check quickly. For example:

• Prepare a three-item summary of a project room.
• List the open decisions from the current sprint.
• Draft, but don't send, a reply to one customer message.

Check the result before you add more work. Give it more freedom only after you've checked its results.

One AI staff member is $250 a month. What it costs to hire AI staff has the full breakdown.