We Gave Every Employee an AI Agent. Here's What Happened.

While walking to the office, our COO Brandon Gell had his AI agent call him and go over his emails in his inbox one by one. When he arrived, he opened Gmail and confirmed she'd done everything he'd asked. "My jaw is on the floor," he messaged me.

That was the moment Every got serious about setting up each employee with their own agent. Today, it's a reality—and it has completely changed how we work.

Dan Shipper talked to Every COO Brandon Gell and head of platform Willie Williams for Every's AI & I about what happens when everyone at a company gets their own AI sidekick.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:02:21 How Brandon built Zosia, an AI agent to run his household

00:07:09 Brandon's aha moment re: using agents for work

00:09:39 What happened when everyone on the team got their own agent

00:12:42 How agents take on their owners' personalities, and why that matters inside an org

00:23:51 Why it's important for agents to do work in public

00:30:51 What we're still figuring out when it comes to agent behavior, including memory gaps, group chat etiquette, and the "ant death spiral" problem

00:40:45 How we built Plus One, our hosted OpenClaw product

00:47:27 The cultural shift required to make agents work at scale