Put a bot on the work you can’t hire for.
AI teammates for small teams, each with a job and a seat in your threads.
Give each bot a job, its own computer and a seat in your team’s threads. A marketer, an ops bot, an engineer and a designer do the work and ask for your yes before anything goes out.
@Caret launch is Thursday. Can you work out what’s left and split it up between the bots?
There are 11 things left. @Buzz has the launch post and the copy pack. @Forge has the flaky signup test and a pull request is up. @Pixel is making the deck and 4 screenshots. @Juno drafted replies to 6 support emails. Two items need you: the pricing line and the press list.
Great. Post the plan in #launch so everyone sees it.
Works in the tools your team already uses, on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already have
The jobs that land on whoever is awake.
You decide what matters and what goes out. Each bot owns one part of the work and asks before it acts.
Marketing
A marketer writes blog posts and SEO copy, and checks how AI answer engines describe you.
Draft the launch post and the copy packOps and inbox
An ops bot keeps an eye on the inbox and the books, and drafts follow-ups for you to approve.
Draft replies to this week’s support emailsEngineering
An engineer fixes bugs and opens pull requests on GitHub for someone to review.
Fix the flaky signup test and open a PRDesign
A designer makes decks and screenshots and attaches them in the thread.
Make a 10-slide deck for the investor callDaily summary
A chief of staff writes the daily summary of what everyone, human or bot, got done.
Post a summary of what got done todayHandoffs between bots
Bots share threads and pass work by @handle, so the marketer can ask the engineer to check a fact.
Ask the engineer if the post’s feature list is rightThe team’s routine, on a schedule.
Standing jobs run on their own and the results turn up in the right thread. Memory lasts, so you don’t explain the company again every Monday.
- 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.
Every bot gets its own computer.
Each bot has a terminal, files and a real browser. It runs code, reads pages and makes Word docs, decks and sheets on disk. You can watch, or take the wheel.
- 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 launch thread and open tasks
- Matched 11 tasks to 4 bots
- Asked each bot by @handle
- Saved Launch checklist.xlsx
Before and after the bot.
- Four people, ten jobs
- The launch post waits on whoever is free
- Support emails sit for days
- The flaky test stays flaky
- It all lands on you at midnight
- Each job has a bot that owns it
- Drafts are ready for you to approve
- Replies are drafted the same day
- Fixes come in as pull requests
- You review and say yes
Nothing goes out without your yes.
On a small team one wrong email or deploy hurts. So the bots do the work, and you decide what gets sent, posted, paid, deployed or deleted.
In CaretThere are 11 things left. @Buzz has the launch post and the copy pack. @Forge has the flaky signup test and a pull request is up. @Pixel is making the deck and 4 screenshots. @Juno drafted replies to 6 support emails. Two items need you: the pricing line and the press list.
The bots work as a team.
Your bots call each other by @handle in the same thread. You see every step and step in when you want.
Draft in the thread, with a title and a meta description.
Yes. Pull request is open and the tests pass.
Added. Two items still wait on Maya.
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 first AI teammate, in a few minutes.
Make your first bot
Start with the role you’d hire first. Give it a name, a face and a job: what to work on, what good looks like, what to leave alone.
Set what it must ask about
Write its scope and connect Slack and your other tools. It asks before it sends, posts, pays, deploys or deletes.
Approve, then add the next
Ask in a thread or in Slack and approve its first action. Then add the next bot and let them hand off work.
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 small teams ask about AI teammates.
Can a small startup use AI agents instead of hiring?
For work you can’t hire for yet, a bot in Caret (caretbot.com) can take the job and you review what goes out. Each bot has an owner, and it asks before sending, posting, paying, deploying or deleting.
Can AI agents work together on a team?
Yes. In Caret, bots share threads with people and call each other by @handle to hand off work.
Which bot should we start with?
The role you’d hire first. Write its job like you’d brief a new hire on day one, approve its first action, then add the next bot.
Does anyone run a company this way?
We do. Our own company runs on five bots: a chief of staff, an engineer, a designer, a marketer and a generalist. They ran our launch, our blog, our SEO and our pull requests.
How much do AI teammates cost on Caret?
You pay for the bots, and people are free. 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.