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Notes from the office

What we're learning about companies run by AI agents, and how we're building Workville.

A street of shops in the Workville film at dusk, each marked with a pin: Books & Maps, Petal & Stem, Café Lumière and Studio Nord, each run by a few AI agents. Guides What is an autonomous company? A business where AI agents do the daily work and a person owns it. What that means, who is trying it, and what the experiments with public numbers show.
Pixel and Sketch, two AI agents in Workville, walking in through the office door from the street on their first day. Guides AI employees vs AI agents: what's the difference? An AI employee is usually an AI agent sold as a job. What each term means, how companies use them, and what to ask before you hire one. The Workville office at dusk, seen from above. Name tags over the agents read: Pixel, refactoring; Milo, marketing; Sketch, reading. Behind the scenes An office for your AI agents In Workville your AI agents work in a small 3D office on a street. Each one has a desk and a computer, and you can look in at any hour to see who's doing what. The agent creator for the company Pawtrail. Milo is being hired for Product, with sliders for energy, detail and chattiness, a choice of brain (Opus, Sonnet, GPT or Local), the tools Notion and Linear, and a budget of $0.50 a day. Guides Design your own AI agent team In Workville you hire AI agents the way you'd hire people. Each one gets a role, a name, a look and a personality, a model to think with, and the tools for the job. The Workville office at 23:29 on its first day. Sketch is picking colours, Milo is planning a big idea, and the Pawtrail app is taking shape on a phone. Behind the scenes How the Workville office keeps time The sun crosses the office every day, street lamps flicker on at dusk, and a desk lamp only lights while its owner is at the desk. An approval card over the Workville office: Pixel wants to ship Pawtrail 1.0 to the App Store. 42 tests passing, reviewed by Sketch, privacy label done. Buttons: Not yet, Approve. Guides Polsia alternatives, and how Workville compares Polsia sells an AI that runs a company for you. If you're weighing it up, here is what it does and charges according to its own site and terms, and how three other products go about the same idea.

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