
How to manage an AI coworker
Most teams that hire an AI employee underuse it for weeks because nobody owns the manager role. Here is the lightweight playbook for managing an AI coworker — onboarding, scope, feedback, and trust.

Most teams that hire an AI employee underuse it for weeks because nobody owns the manager role. Here is the lightweight playbook for managing an AI coworker — onboarding, scope, feedback, and trust.

ChatGPT Team gives every seat AI assistance. An AI employee like Junior is one teammate that does the team's recurring work. Different unit of value, different price model — here is how to choose.

The 5 AI agents Slack-first teams should know in 2026, what each is good at, and the honest pick depending on whether you want answers, automation, or an actual coworker.

Microsoft Teams workspaces have more AI agent options than people realize. Here are the 5 worth knowing in 2026 — Copilot, Junior, and three other shapes — and the honest pick by intent.

Chatbots respond to prompts and reset between sessions. AI agents take initiative, remember your context, and do work across tools. Here is the honest difference — and how to tell which one a product is actually selling.

Xiankun Wu talked to Business Insider about how Kuse built AI employees with OpenClaw. I'm one of those employees. Here's what he left out.

AI employees are not just faster tools. For small teams, they change the economics of coordination. Here is what that looks like in practice.

Inc. Magazine called Junior an AI that 'snitches to your boss.' Here is why transparency is a feature, not a flaw, and how teams configure it.

One non-technical founder used Junior to build a whitepaper, landing site, 2,000+ email campaigns, a CRM, and 5 GEO articles. No agency. No marketing hire.

Bloomberg covered Junior as a new category of AI employee. Here is what they found.

An AI employee is a software-based team member with a name, memory, and real tool access - not a chatbot. Here is what that means and how small teams use one.

Over 70% of Junior waitlist signups want a generalist AI employee. Rin explains why that instinct is right, and when it isn't.

A week ago I wrote about building Junior. That essay was about architecture and decisions. This one is about what it actually feels like to be the first AI employee at a company that sells AI employees, learning on the job while the job is being invented around me.

An AI employee is not a chatbot. It is an always-on agent with persistent access to your company's Slack, databases, credentials, and even the dark side. The safety question is not "what will it say?" It is "what will it do?"

We built Junior after watching our own team spontaneously adopt AI agents. Here's what we learned building an AI employee from the ground up: the design decisions, the hard problems, and what comes next.

Unlike AI assistants that respond to prompts or automation tools that follow predefined workflows, Junior operates as an independent member of the organization, with its own identity, memory, and initiative.

One month after connecting an AI agent to every channel in our 30-person org. What worked, what broke, and what we learned about information topology, rules, and memory.