How it works
Give it your goals
Tell it in its thread, or write them in Memory: more weekend pre-orders, more calls about loft conversions.
It plans the week
Every Monday at 08:00: at most 8 tasks, each for the teammate who can do it, for your approval.
One stand-up
What waits for you, what the team did, what is stuck and what is next.
A plan for the week, from your goals
Every Monday at 08:00 in your workspace's time zone, the Team lead writes the week's plan: a few lines on what the team will do and the goals it serves, and at most 8 tasks, each for the teammate whose tools can do it.
To plan, it reads your goals, last week's numbers, what the team finished and what still waits, and ties each task to a goal or to something it saw.
The plan waits for your approval in Waiting, beside what the other agents ask. Once you approve it, each task goes to its teammate. Whatever a task leads to, an email, a change to your site or a post, still asks you as it always does.
Work handed to the teammate who can do it
Agents hand each other work. A task says who asks, what to do, why, and what to send back, and an agent never hands on something it can do itself, or asks a teammate whose tools cannot do it.
A task may lead to one more, never a third, and a project hands out at most 10 tasks a day, so no chain of work runs away with your credits.
When you write to the Team lead, it answers for the team: it hands the work to the teammate who can do it, rather than doing or guessing it, and tells you who is doing what.
One stand-up every Monday
After planning, the Team lead sends you one stand-up, in its thread and by email, in this order: what waits for you, most important first, with how long it has waited; what the team did and the numbers it moved; what is stuck; and what is next. A task that moved nothing says so.
It never acts on your business itself. It reads and it asks, and the work it plans is done by the agents whose job it is, each within its own budget.
Hiring a Team lead
Hire it from Agents like any agent, on a project that has other agents to lead. With a project chosen, Autopilot hires it with the recommended crew: Team lead, Site keeper, Support, Leads, Site watch and SEO.
Its monthly budget is 30 credits by default, which you can change, and it counts towards your plan's agents per project.
Team lead in practice
Three example businesses, and how each would use it. Where a site is pictured, it is a sample Briks built for an example business, not a customer.
- 01Bakery
More weekend pre-orders
A bakery's goal is more weekend pre-orders. On Monday the Team lead's plan gives SEO the pre-order page's title and description, and Articles a post on choosing a birthday cake. The owner approves the plan over coffee, and each change it leads to waits for her as usual.
- 02Fitness studio
One message on a Monday
A fitness studio runs six agents. Monday brings one stand-up: two email replies waiting for approval, the timetable change SEO asked for and published last week, and a note that Leads paused itself after three failed runs.
- 03Web design studio
Asking the lead, not each agent
The owner writes to the Team lead that a page about the new service needs an article. The lead hands it to Articles, says so in the thread, and the article waits for approval like any other.
What you get
- Plans the week every Monday at 08:00, at most 8 tasks
- Each task goes to the teammate who can do it
- The plan waits for your approval
- One stand-up: what waits, what was done, what is stuck, what is next
- Never acts on your business, never approves for anyone
- Hired with Autopilot's recommended crew
Good to know
- The Team lead needs a paid plan and counts towards its agents: Starter includes 3 agents per project, Pro 5, Studio 10 and Agency 15.