The Case for Cloning Your Coworkers

Plus: A star investor admits to using AI on his op-ed, a self-improving Codex skill, and the hedge fund where AI use is mandatory

Laura Entis

Aug 26, 2026 · 10 min readUpdated Sep 22, 2026

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Inside Every

In which Dan plots to clone us all

For years, Every CEO Dan Shipper’s goal was to automate editor in chief Kate Lee’s editorial judgment. The data was there—he had more than 30,000 of her historical edits—but the models weren’t good enough to create a copyediting agent that approached her abilities.

That changed with the launch of GPT-5.6. Now, before I file an article, I run it through KateBench, a skill that copyedits based on Kate’s historical edits. Only then does human Kate review the piece, accepting, modifying, or rejecting the agent’s suggestions. Tracked changes in Google Docs catalog those decisions and any additional edits she makes, then Codex rewrites the skill so it compounds. (For more on how KateBench works, read staff writer Katie Parrott’s writeup on how engineer Jannik Jung incorporates feedback to improve its performance.)

Your next teammate has its own computer

Scout handles research. Olivia reads every contract. Talent Scout screens new creators before you’ve had coffee. They aren’t apps you open, they’re Bots you text, each one responsible for a specific job. Grok Bot, from the team behind SpaceXAI, gives every Bot its own computer in the cloud, already logged into the tools it needs and still working when your laptop is closed. You build the team once, then message it the way you’d message a coworker.

Meet the Bots

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