Browse the Marketplace and hire an AI employee for a specific role: a department specialist, a personal assistant, or a custom role you define from scratch. Hiring is free and instant. You land straight in the new employee's chat, and every skill, duty, and tool it starts with can be changed afterward from its dashboard.
The Marketplace is one grid: your two personal assistants first, then a specialist for every department (Marketing, Sales, Support, HR, Operations), then Sistava's built-in mentor, then a Custom AI Talent card for building a role from nothing. Search by name, role, tagline, or connected tool, or open the Filters panel for Department, Level, and Tools. Click a card's photo to preview its full profile before deciding, or click Hire to skip straight to work.
Hiring itself costs nothing. No credits are consumed by the act of adding someone to your workforce; credits are only spent when an employee actually does work for you. That separation matters because it means you can build out a full team shape first, department by department, and only pay for the requests you send them.
The difference from just describing a task in a chat window is that hiring creates a standing employee with its own identity, memory, and default skill set, not a one-off answer. A department specialist arrives already carrying the skills and tools that role typically needs, so it can act immediately instead of you having to configure a blank agent before it can do anything useful. Custom AI Talent is the other end of that spectrum: it starts intentionally blank, with only basic research skills, so you build the exact role from its own dashboard when none of the pre-built templates fit.
A department specialist arrives pre-configured with the skills, duties, and tool connections its role typically needs, so it can take on work the moment it's hired rather than sitting idle until you build it out. Personal assistants (Alice and Bob) are standalone and available on every plan, including Free, so the very first conversation on the platform never depends on a purchase.
Everything a card ships with is a starting point, not a fixed configuration. From the employee's own dashboard after hiring, you can add or remove skills, change which tools it connects to, adjust its persona, and pick which AI model it runs on. Nothing about a marketplace template locks you into its defaults.
How many employees you can have hired at once is governed by your plan's employee limit, shown on the pricing page and enforced the moment you try to hire past it. Higher plans raise the ceiling; the highest plan removes it entirely.
This limit counts total hired employees, not requests or credits. You choose how to spend your slots: a few specialists doing heavy work, or a wider bench covering more roles lightly. If you're at your limit, terminating an existing employee frees a slot for a new hire.
One grid, one click, then you land in their chat
Open the Marketplace from the workspace. Every hireable role appears in a single grid rather than separate team and individual sections, so browsing feels like scanning one roster instead of hunting through menus. Each card shows the employee's name and role, a department badge with its skill count, the tool icons it already connects to, and a Hire button.
Clicking a card's photo opens its full profile, skills, duties, tools, and persona, so you can see exactly what you would be hiring before committing to it. Clicking Hire skips the preview and adds the employee to your workforce immediately; you land directly in its chat and can start delegating right away.
New individual hires land in the Bench team by default, unassigned to any department, until you move them to a specific team from that team's Members tab. You can only have one active employee per named marketplace template at a time; to hire that same role again you terminate the existing one first. Custom AI Talent has no such limit and can be hired as many times as you want.
A solo founder opening a Sales pipeline for the first time hires the Sales specialist directly from the Marketplace instead of writing a role from a blank page. It arrives with department-relevant skills and tool connections already in place, so the first real conversation can be about the actual pipeline, not initial setup.
Before spending one of a limited number of plan employee slots, a user previews a candidate's full profile, skills, duties, tools, persona, by clicking its card photo, then only clicks Hire once it looks like the right fit for the work they have in mind.
When a business need doesn't match any department specialist, a user hires Custom AI Talent, which starts intentionally blank, and configures its exact skill set, tools, and persona from its dashboard so the resulting employee matches the job precisely instead of approximating it.
A user unhappy with how a hired specialist is performing terminates it and hires the same marketplace template again fresh, resetting to the template's default configuration instead of trying to untangle accumulated custom settings.
No. Hiring is free and does not touch your credit balance. Credits are consumed only when an employee actually processes a request for you, so you can build out your full workforce shape before spending anything.
Yes. Click anywhere on a card's photo in the Marketplace to open its full profile, including its skills, duties, tools, and persona, before you decide to hire it.
Not for a named marketplace template: only one active employee per template is allowed per workspace, so you'd terminate the existing one before hiring that role again. Custom AI Talent has no such limit and can be hired as many times as you need.
Hire the Custom AI Talent card, which starts blank aside from basic research skills, and build out its skills, duties, tools, and persona from its own dashboard. Or hire the closest matching specialist and adjust its configuration afterward.
You land directly in the new employee's chat. Individual hires appear under the Bench team in the sidebar until you move them into a specific team from that team's Members tab.
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