Laura Entis is a staff writer at Every.
An Engineering Team for the Cost of Codex
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The agents behind the curtain
Naveen Naidu is the one-man shop behind Monologue, Every’s smart dictation app.
But Naveen no longer sees it that way—these days, his work feels more like managing a team of engineers.
The engineers just happen to be custom agents he built within Codex. On his roster: dedicated engineer agents across different disciplines, a customer support agent, and a growth strategist—all of which help maintain the Monologue website and app. Recently, a customer sent Naveen a glowing review that he wanted to feature on Monologue’s website. His customer support agent handed the review text to his web engineer agent, which added the testimonial.
Each agent is a Codex project, complete with a custom AGENTS.md file, skills, folders, memory, codebases, and additional context that turns it into a specialist.
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