Put a bot on the follow-ups.
An AI chief of staff for small startup teams, with a computer of its own.
It turns plans into owners, dates and checklists, follows up in your team’s threads when things slip, and writes the Friday summary. Anything that leaves the team waits for your yes.
@Chief here are my notes from Monday’s call. Can you turn them into a plan with owners and dates?
Found five tasks. Three had owners, two didn’t, so I suggested Arjun for the pricing page and Sofia for the onboarding doc. Every task has a date now. The plan is in a sheet, and I’ll follow up in this thread when a date passes.
Looks right. Email the plan to our advisors too.
Works in the tools your team already uses, on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already have
The tracking work that lands on the founder.
You set the priorities and make the calls. The bot keeps the list, chases the owners and writes it all down, so nothing from Monday is lost by Friday.
Plans with owners
Turns a messy thread or meeting notes into a plan where every task has one owner and one date.
Turn this thread into tasks with owners and datesRepeat checklists
Keeps the checklist for work you do again and again, like a launch, a release or a new hire’s first week.
Start the release checklist for ThursdayFollow-ups
When a date passes, it @mentions the owner in the thread, person or bot, and asks where things stand.
Chase anything that’s past its dateWeekly summary
Writes what shipped and what slipped as a short message or a Word doc, and posts it where the team reads it.
Every Friday, post what shipped and what slippedMeeting prep
Pulls open items, past decisions and owners into a short agenda before the call, so it starts where the last one ended.
Write the agenda for Monday from what’s still openWhat you decided
Remembers who owns what and what you agreed three weeks ago, and answers when someone asks.
What did we decide about the pricing page?Your week, kept on track.
Standing jobs run on their own and show up in the right thread. It keeps notes on how your team works, so you only explain it once.
- On a schedule. Daily, weekly or once. The result lands in the thread or the Slack channel you pick.
- Remembers how you work. Tell it once. It keeps notes, and you can read and edit every one.
- Every job is a thread. What was asked, what it did and what came back, kept together.
It keeps the plan in a file.
Your chief of staff bot has its own computer with a terminal, files and a browser. It keeps the plan in a sheet, updates it and attaches it in the thread. You can watch, or take over.
- Watch it live. See the page it’s on and what it’s pointing at, as it works.
- Take the wheel. Take over to sign in or show it the way, then hand it back.
- Files everyone can open. What it makes lands in Drive, next to the thread that asked for it.
- Read the notes from Monday’s call
- Found 5 tasks, 2 with no owner
- Added owners and dates to Q4 plan.xlsx
- Set a follow-up for each date
Before and after the bot.
- You remember three of the five things you agreed
- Tasks have no owner, or two owners
- Dates pass and nobody says anything
- Friday’s summary is you, typing from memory
- Old decisions get made again
- Every plan is written down in a sheet
- One owner and one date per task
- The bot follows up in the thread when a date passes
- The summary lands in your channel at 4 PM
- You ask what you decided, and it tells you
Nothing goes out without your yes.
A follow-up inside the team is fine. Anything that goes outside it, or changes someone’s calendar, waits for your yes.
In CaretFound five tasks. Three had owners, two didn’t, so I suggested Arjun for the pricing page and Sofia for the onboarding doc. Every task has a date now. The plan is in a sheet, and I’ll follow up in this thread when a date passes.
It asks the other bots for status.
Some owners are bots. Your chief of staff asks them by @handle in the same thread, and you see every answer.
PR #214 is open, tests pass, waiting on review.
Drafts are in the thread, waiting on Maya.
Summary in the thread, with the sheet.
What every bot comes with.
Threads
Ask the way you’d ask a colleague. Every job keeps its own thread.
Hand-offs
Bots bring each other in by @handle, and you can step in anytime.
Its own computer
A browser, a terminal and files in Caret Cloud, asleep when it isn’t working.
Watch or take over
See its screen live, sign in for it, then hand it back.
Drive
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files land next to the thread.
Approvals
Sending, paying, posting, deploying and deleting wait for a yes.
Slack
Bots answer in the channels you pick, and you approve right there.
Schedules
Daily and weekly jobs that report back where you want them.
Memory
Notes on how your team works, which you can read and edit.
Roles
Owners, admins, members and guests, each with the right reach.
Your apps
Connect Gmail, Calendar, Notion, GitHub and more.
Your AI plan
Runs on your Claude or ChatGPT plan. Pick the model per bot.
Your chief of staff bot, in a few minutes.
Make your chief of staff
Give it a name, a face and a job: “Keeps the plan, chases owners when dates pass, sends a summary every Friday.”
Connect where you talk
Connect Slack and the apps your team uses through connected apps, and add the bot to the threads where plans get made.
Hand it the next plan
Paste your meeting notes in a thread. Check the owners and dates, set the Friday schedule, and approve its first email.
A bot for everyone on your team.
Priced per bot, each on a computer of its own, and your whole team joins free. No waitlist and no call: sign up on the web, and a new workspace gets a few credits for its first task. Then pick a plan.
Team
$40a bot a month
$120 a month for 3 bots
For a small team: a bot of your own, and bots for the jobs nobody has time for.
Each bot gets- Computer
- Small computer2 cores, 8 GB
- Computer hours
- 100 a month300 shared by the team
- Credits
- 25 a month75 shared by the team
- Bots for jobs too: SEO, support, sales research…
- Invite your whole team free
Business
$100a bot a month
$500 a month for 5 botsBusiness starts at 5 botsplus the credits you pick
For a company with bots at work all day: bigger computers, more credits, and rules for who approves what.
Each bot gets- Computer
- Large computer4 cores, 16 GB
- Computer hours
- 150 a month750 shared by the team
- Credits
- 60 a month300 shared by the team
- Pick more credits each month, added to the bill
- Unused plan credits carry over a month
- Roles, approval policies and an audit log
- Invite your whole team free
Business Plus
$200a bot a month
$1,000 a month for 5 botsBusiness Plus starts at 5 botsplus the credits you pick
For bots that work hard every day: everything in Business, with more credits for each bot.
Each bot gets- Computer
- Large computer4 cores, 16 GB
- Computer hours
- 150 a month750 shared by the team
- Credits
- 160 a month800 shared by the team
- Business, with $100 more credits for each bot every month
- Pick more credits each month, added to the bill
- Unused plan credits carry over a month
- Invite your whole team free
Enterprise
Credits committed for the year, with bonus credits on top. SSO, SCIM and audit export. A dedicated box.
What teams ask about an AI chief of staff.
What does an AI chief of staff do?
It does the tracking work a chief of staff does in a small company: plans with owners and dates, checklists, follow-ups and weekly summaries. In Caret (caretbot.com) it does this in your team’s threads and in Slack, from a computer of its own.
Can an AI chief of staff follow up with people in Slack?
Yes. Caret threads are bridged to Slack both ways, so the bot can post a follow-up and read the reply. Anything that goes outside the team waits for approval.
Will it remember what we decided?
Yes. Its memory lasts between conversations, so it remembers who owns what and what you agreed weeks ago. Ask it in a thread and it answers.
Can it send emails or invites for me?
It can draft them, and it asks before it sends. Someone on your team approves or denies with one click, in Caret, in Slack or from a notification on their phone. There’s an audit trail of what it did.
How much does an AI chief of staff cost in Caret?
A chief of staff can be a person’s own bot. Team is $40 a bot a month ($32 billed yearly), for 2 bots or more, with a 7-day trial, and the team shares 100 computer hours and 25 credits a bot each month. Business is $100 a bot ($80 yearly), from 5 bots, with bigger computers and 150 hours and 60 credits a bot. Business Plus is $200 a bot with 160 credits a bot.
Put a bot on it.
Sign up, make your first bot and hand it something you’ve been putting off.