Agents for Hire

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There’s more than one way to hire an agent

Shopify has River to help engineers ship code. Stripe has Kai to turn company data into dashboards and documents. We’re building Every Agent to encode our team knowledge into a shared agent. It’s official: The age of the company-wide agent has arrived.

The phrase makes this sound like a new software category. It is really a spectrum of ownership. A company can build the whole system, rent the machinery underneath it, or buy an agent that already lives in Slack or Notion. The right choice for your organization depends on what you want it to do, where you want it to live—and how much of the upkeep you’re willing to take on after launch.