‘AI & I’: Agents work among us

Today, we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper sits down with Every’s COO Brandon Gell and head of platform Willie Williams to discuss the good, bad, and weird of how daily operations change when everyone at your company has an agent.

A “parallel organization chart,” in which each AI worker has a name, manager, and job description, allows your company to move faster than it ever could with humans alone. It also raises a host of new questions about how work can—and should—get done.

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Here are the highlights:

• We’re writing the etiquette in real time. Each person at Every has a dedicated OpenClaw AI assistant, or Plus One, trained to assist with or fully handle parts of our jobs. R2-C2, for example, reports to Dan and is responsible for collecting flagged bugs and generating pull requests for Proof, Every’s collaborative document editor for agents and humans. So when do we turn to Dan versus R2-C2 for Proof-related troubleshooting? Brandon’s rule of thumb: If an established process or tool needs to be used or fixed, ask a Plus One. R2-C2 knows all about Proof, and Dan’s a busy guy—bug reports and questions about how to use the app or report a bug should always go to the agent.
• Agents gain credibility by doing. The fastest way to get other people to trust and use your Plus One is to have it execute tasks in public. Austin Tedesco is Every’s head of growth, and Montaigne, his Plus One, essentially co-runs the department. Austin asks Montaigne to generate campaign scorecards, analyze metrics for growth insights, and handle all sorts of other complex tasks. Watching Montaigne pull off these requests proves its capabilities to the team—and inspires others to push their Plus Ones to achieve more, too.

• Everyone is a manager now. Agent sidekicks force each of us to change our approach to getting work done. To get the most out of a Plus One, you need to actively manage it—onboard it, delegate tasks to it, evaluate its performance, and give guidance so mistakes aren’t repeated. For anyone who hasn’t had a direct report before, “there’s an education that has to happen,” Brandon says.

Miss an episode? Catch up on Dan’s recent conversations with LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman; the team that built Claude Code, Cat Wu and Boris Cherny; Vercel cofounder Guillermo Rauch; podcaster Dwarkesh Patel; and others, and learn how they use AI to think, create, and relate.

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