Stand up a Marketing team in one click
Hire a pre-built Marketing team from the Marketplace and get a configured leader plus members ready to plan a launch or a content calendar the same day, without assigning skills or tools yourself.
Hire a Full Team
Hire a complete pre-built team from the Marketplace in one click: every member configured, a leader assigned, and sprint planning ready to start. Or build a custom team from your existing hires, pick a leader, and set it up yourself. Either way, you talk to one leader and they coordinate the rest.
Hiring one employee gets you one specialist. Hiring a full team gets you a working group with a leader who coordinates everyone else, so you give direction once and the team breaks it into tasks, assigns them, and reports back with a consolidated result.
The fastest path is a pre-built team from the Marketplace. Click Hire on a team card and every member is created and configured in one step: the right skills, the right tools, a trained leader already assigned. The leader introduces the team, asks what you need, and can start sprint planning immediately. Marketing, Sales, Support, and other functional teams are ready this way.
The alternative to hiring a full team is hiring employees one at a time and leaving them on the Bench, the default holding area every workspace has. Bench employees can see each other but cannot delegate work, share memory, or run sprints together, they are individuals sitting in the same lobby, not a team. A full team fixes that: once employees are grouped under a leader, they share context, hand off work to each other, and run sprint planning as a unit. That is the concrete difference a team buys you over a pile of solo hires.
If a pre-built composition does not fit, build a custom team instead: add employees from the Bench or move them from another team, assign a leader (or let the oldest member be promoted automatically), and set the leader's skills so they know how to coordinate. Custom teams take more setup but give full control over who is on the team and what each person does.
Reorganizing is free and lossless. Moving an employee between teams has no cost, and deleting a team returns its members to the Bench with all their tasks, files, and journal entries intact. Hiring itself is free too, credits are only consumed when employees actually do work.
Pre-Built vs Custom
A pre-built team is the fastest way to get a working group: one click on the Marketplace creates every member, configures their skills and tools, and assigns a trained leader. The team dashboard comes with real KPIs from the start, and sprint planning is optional but ready to trigger the moment you tell the leader what you need.
A custom team is built manually from the Workspace: add members from the Bench, assign a leader yourself, and configure each member's skills and tools. It takes more setup, but it is the right choice when the pre-built compositions in the Marketplace do not match the exact mix of roles a specific job needs.
The Team Dashboard
Clicking a team's name in the sidebar opens its dashboard, with tabs for Chat (routes to the leader), Tasks (work across all members), Drive (team files and journals), Members (add, remove, or promote), Charter (mission and working standards), Schedule (each member's schedule), Activity (a timeline of everything the team has done), and Profile.
The dashboard is what makes a team distinct from a pile of individually hired employees: it is one shared view of everyone's work, rather than switching between separate employee pages to see what each person is doing.
How It Works
One click for a ready-made team, or assemble your own from existing hires
Hiring a pre-built team from the Marketplace creates every member at once and assigns a leader automatically. The leader is pre-trained for the role: it knows the team's purpose, has the skills and tools it needs, and opens by asking what you want done. From there it can start sprint planning without further setup.
Building a custom team starts from the Workspace: create a team, then add employees pulled from the Bench or moved from another team. Assign a leader (the oldest member is promoted automatically if you skip this), then give the leader the skills and responsibilities it needs to coordinate the group.
Once a team is active, its members share memory and context with each other, something Bench employees never do. The leader is the single point of contact: you tell it what you need, it delegates pieces to the right member, and it delivers the combined result. You can still message any individual member directly.
Each employee belongs to exactly one team at a time. Moving someone to a new team removes them from the old one automatically, and their chat history and work output travel with them, not with the team, so reorganizing never loses anything.
Use Cases
Build a Support team around your existing hires
Move employees already sitting on the Bench into a new custom team, assign one as leader, and unlock shared memory and delegation so tickets get routed and resolved as a group instead of by isolated individuals.
Reorganize as your needs change
Move an employee from one team to another, or promote a different member to leader, with no cost and no lost history. Chat logs and work output travel with the employee, so restructuring a team never means starting over.
FAQ
What's the difference between hiring a team and hiring employees one at a time?
Employees hired one at a time land on the Bench by default, a holding area where they can see each other but cannot delegate work, share memory, or run sprints. Hiring a full team groups employees under a leader from the start, which unlocks shared memory, delegation, and sprint planning immediately.
How fast can I get a team working?
A pre-built team from the Marketplace is ready in one click: every member is created and configured, a leader is assigned, and the leader can start asking what you need right away. A custom team takes longer since you assign the leader and configure skills yourself.
Do I talk to every team member individually?
No, the leader is your main point of contact. Tell the leader what you need and it breaks the work into tasks, assigns them to the right members, and delivers the consolidated result. You can still message any member directly if you want to.
What happens to a team's work if I delete the team?
Nothing is lost. Employees move back to the Bench and all of their tasks, files, and journal entries stay with them.
Does hiring a full team cost more than hiring individuals?
Hiring itself is free either way. Credits are only consumed when employees do work, not when you create a team or add members to it.
Where Hire a Full Team fits
Hire a Full Team is part of Things you hire or set up.
Browse a marketplace of pre-built AI agent roles and full teams, or build your own from scratch. Organize them into teams with leaders, set up your org chart, and onboard new hires in minutes. Every employee arrives configured and ready to deliver from day one.
- Things you hire or set up: A full workforce. Hired in seconds.
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