The Agentic Workforce

Employee 001 — Executive Assistant

Your first AI employee starts on probation.

It reads your calendar, drafts in your voice, and finds the time nobody else could. Then it stops and asks — because on day one it has not earned the right to send anything on your behalf.

It arrives with the narrowest possible remit.

Reports to
You, and nobody else
Working hours
Yours, learned over time
May act alone
Read, research, draft
Needs your sign-off
Anything that leaves the building

Why probation

Any model can book a meeting. Almost none can be trusted to do it four hundred times.

Agentic error compounds. At 95% reliability per step, a ten‑step task finishes correctly about 60% of the time. A competent human operates near 99.9%. That gap is why most AI assistants stay demos.

We close it by refusing to let the model improvise. Work runs as a fixed graph, and the model fills only the genuinely fuzzy steps.

steps to book a meeting
5steps to book a meeting
of them free-form
2of them free-form
outbound actions ungated
0outbound actions ungated

Before anything leaves

Five things happen between a decision and an email sending.

Every one is recorded. This is the part competitors skip, and it is why this can be trusted with a real inbox.

  1. 01

    Verify

    Four checks, cheapest first — shape, your rules, what we know about you, then a second model prompted to attack it rather than approve it.

  2. 02

    Apply policy

    Reading is automatic. Reversible writes are automatic and you're told. Anything irreversible stops here.

  3. 03

    Ask you

    Arrives where you already are. Approve it, or send it back with a reason it will remember.

  4. 04

    Execute once

    Guarded so a retry, a replay or a double-click can never send the same thing twice.

  5. 05

    Write it down

    What it did, what it checked, what you said, and when. Not a reconstruction — a record.

The trust ladder

Autonomy is granted, never assumed.

Every action class keeps a measured record. When one earns it, the system asks you — per action, per company, revocable the moment you change your mind.

This is the real control from the product. Try promoting it.

Action class

Awaiting your sign-off

Book a meeting with a colleague inside your company

  1. Requires approval
  2. Promotion proposed (current)
  3. Autonomous
Clean approvals
14
Edited by you
0
Escapes
0

Fourteen bookings in a row went out exactly as your assistant drafted them. It’s asking to stop interrupting you for this one thing.

What it is expected to do

The morning brief
By the time you're awake: today's meetings, the mail that matters, what needs preparing, and every conflict it found.
Inbox triage
Sorts the day's mail, surfaces what genuinely needs you, and leaves the rest handled or waiting.
Scheduling
Reads real calendars, proposes a time that survives everyone's constraints, drafts the invite, then waits for you.
Replies in your voice
Drafts the response you would have written, learned from the ones you've sent and the edits you've made.

Hire one and keep it on a short leash.

It arrives fully gated. Widen what it may do only when it has given you a reason to.