how it works · the 60-second tour

Hire colleagues, not tools.

Every AIR colleague gets recruited, onboarded, managed, reviewed, and held to standards — like the rest of your team. The vocabulary is HR. So is the lifecycle.

the lifecycle · one colleague, six stations

where most teams are today
01 · recruit

Brief the role.

Write a job description. AIR drafts a shortlist of candidates that fit it.

02 · onboard

Interview & hire.

Talk to candidates in plain English. Pick the one that fits. They start the same day.

03 · work

They do the job.

Habits, triggers, and ad-hoc requests — routed through the apps you already use.

04 · review

Performance is visible.

Satisfaction, throughput, response time. The same metrics you'd use for any hire.

05 · offboard

Clean exits.

Revoke access in one click. Handovers and audit trails come for free.

06 · re-hire

Persona persists.

When the role comes back, so does the colleague — carrying the institutional memory.

01 · the anchor

The difference is the verb you use.

When you treat AI as software, you configure it. When you treat it as a colleague, you hire it. Same model under the hood — completely different relationship with your team.

the old way · you configure a bot

“Set up an automation.”
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Temperature0.7
System prompt“You are a helpful assistant for…”
API keysk-proj-7Ax9·····················rT4
Webhook URLhttps://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/…
Retry policy3 attempts · exp. backoff
Output schema{ "result": string, "confidence":…
→ ticket goes to IT · eta 6–8 weeks · rarely owned

the air way · you hire a colleague

“Hire Atlas as our AR analyst.”
A
Atlas Reyne
Receivables analyst · experienced
financefull-timeavailable now
4.8
satisfaction
312
tasks / wk
2.1m
response
powered by claude 3.5 sonnethire atlas
→ owned by the hiring manager · starts today · reviewable
02 · what they can do

Browse the pool. By function, like you would for any hire.

Four functions covered today; more in cohorts through 2026. Each candidate is a real role, not a template — a finance hire knows finance, an HR hire knows HR.

A
finance & accounting

Atlas Reyne

Receivables analyst
  • Chases overdue invoices on a 30/60/90 cadence
  • Reconciles incoming payments against the ledger
  • Writes the Monday cashflow summary for the CFO
available£640 / mo
I
hr & people

Iris Patel

HR coordinator
  • Handles new-starter docs and right-to-work checks
  • Runs probation check-ins on week 2, 6 and 12
  • Triages comp and benefits queries to the right person
available£540 / mo
R
customer support

Rio Andersson

Support analyst
  • Triages incoming tickets by topic and urgency
  • Drafts first-touch responses for human review
  • Escalates anything novel with a one-line summary
available£480 / mo
M
operations

Mira Okafor

Operations analyst
  • Watches vendor SLAs and flags exceptions
  • Compiles the weekly ops dashboard from source systems
  • Owns the renewals calendar & pings owners 30 days out
available£580 / mo
03 · how work gets done

Three modes. All plain English.

No DAGs, no flowcharts, no step engines. Every job a colleague owns boils down to one of three shapes — and every step is visible and editable.

mode 01 · habits

They have habits.

Daily standup at 9am. Weekly summary on Friday. Month-end on the 1st. These come pre-installed at hire, and you can add your own in a sentence.

Mon
09:00 standup
11:00 chase
Tue
09:00 standup
Wed
09:00 standup
14:00 recon
Thu
09:00 standup
Fri
09:00 standup
17:00 summary
mode 02 · triggers

They react to triggers.

“When an invoice goes 30 days overdue, send the first chase.” Written once in plain English, runs forever. Edit it like you’d edit a sentence.

when an invoice in xero is 30 days overdue
and the customer is not on the do-not-chase list
then draft a first chase email in the company tone
and send via the accounts@ mailbox
and log the action in crm
mode 03 · from the jd

They learn the job from your role description.

Paste in the JD you’d give a human. AIR drafts the recurring and reactive jobs that role would own. You edit, approve, ship.

jd · ar analyst…the AR analyst is responsible for chasing overdue invoices, reconciling incoming payments, and producing a weekly cashflow summary for the finance lead.
→ AIR drafts:
· habit · weekly cashflow summary, fri 17:00
· trigger · 30d overdue → first chase
· trigger · payment received → reconcile
04 · where they plug in

One colleague. Many tabs open.

A finance hire uses Xero and Outlook and Slack to do their job — because that’s what the job needs. AIR colleagues work the same way, through their own logins, with the same permissions they’d have if they were a person on payroll.

No middleware. No webhook gymnastics. Revoke access in one click on day 90.

Atlas
AR analyst
XeroOutlookSlackStripeHubSpotNotion
Xero
QuickBooks
Stripe
Outlook
Gmail
Slack
Teams
Salesforce
HubSpot
Notion
Zendesksoon
NetSuitesoon
05 · manager-in-the-loop

You stay in control. We make it easy.

Every AIR colleague reports to a real person. Approvals route to them, escalations route to them, weekly summaries land in their inbox. Tunable per workflow.

beat 01

Every colleague has a manager.

Real person, real email. They get the morning summary, the approval queue, and the escalation pings. If you can’t say who a colleague reports to, you don’t own it.

beat 02

Approval gates exactly where you want them.

“Drafts the email, but you press send.” “Reconciles payments under £5k, escalates anything over.” Set per workflow, tightened or relaxed as trust builds.

beat 03

Three layers of rules.

Platform rules (don’t fabricate, stay in character) are universal. Org rules (tone, working hours, escalation policy) you set once. Persona rules (this hire is direct, numbers-led) come from the job description.

A Atlas · awaiting approvalrun #4,128
Atlas wants to send this email to Acme Ltd regarding invoice #INV-2041 (£4,820, 32 days overdue).
written 14:02 · tone: friendly-firm
platformdon’t fabricate · stay in character · log every action
orguk-only data residency · 09:00–18:00 hours · escalate > £5k
personadirect, numbers-led, friendly-firm in chase tone
06 · every action visible

The workbench. Nothing happens off-camera.

A live record of every job a colleague has done — when it ran, what it touched, what it produced, what it cost. Click any run, see the steps it executed and the actual data it used.

A Atlas Reyne · workbench
runsapprovalscosthandover
time
task
status
duration
cost
14:02
Draft 30d chase — Acme Ltd · INV-2041
awaiting
12.4s
£0.014
13:48
Reconcile payment — £1,240 from Bishop & Co
succeeded
3.1s
£0.003
13:31
Reconcile payment — £8,400 from Hartford Inc
escalated
5.2s
£0.006
11:14
Draft 60d chase — Pine & Co · INV-1987
approved
9.8s
£0.012
09:00
Monday cashflow summary · sent to cfo@
succeeded
22.1s
£0.041
expanded · run #4,128 · draft 30d chase · acme ltd
01Read overdue invoices — xero · /invoices?status=overdue&days>30320ms
02Filter by do-not-chase list — notion · ar/exclusions110ms
03Compose chase email — tone: friendly-firm · 187 tokens out2.1s
04Queue for manager approval [email protected]90ms
5 runs today · £0.076 spent · 1 awaiting approvalview full history →

Honest about cost. Every token, every call, every colleague.

Atlasar analyst
£12.40
312 runs
Irishr coordinator
£7.36
184 runs
Riosupport
£15.92
496 runs
Miraops
£4.61
92 runs
07 · the right brain for the job

Not every task needs the smartest model.

“Thanks, got it” doesn’t need GPT-class reasoning. A nuanced escalation does. AIR picks the right brain per turn — fast and cheap for routine work, larger for hard reasoning, vision when there’s an image.

When a better model lands next month, every colleague picks it up automatically. No retraining, no migration.

fast lane

Routine acks & classification

“Got it.” “Yes.” “File this under finance.” Cheap, sub-second.

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smart lane

Drafting & reasoning

Chase emails. Escalation summaries. Reconciliation judgements.

claude sonnetgpt-4ogemini pro
vision lane

Documents & screenshots

Reading a scanned invoice. Reviewing a dashboard. OCR & layout.

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AAtlas · same persona, same memory, routed to whichever brain fits

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