Overview

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Digital employees are personal AI teammates that work for you. You describe the kind of helper you want, and BuildAI hires you a digital employee with its own personality, memory, and tools - then it gets to work on your behalf, 24/7. You don’t have to drive every step. Tell your digital employee what you need and it takes it from there - writing, researching, reaching into your Gmail or Calendar, and handling the follow-through. Think of it as hiring a smart assistant who gets better at helping you the longer you work together. And the best part? They even talk in your language.

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How to Hire a Digital Employee

1. Open BuildAI and go to your Employees dashboard.
2. Describe the kind of employee you want in the prompt box. For example:

“A marketing assistant that writes blog posts and manages my social media.”

3. Click Hire Employee. BuildAI will give your new employee a name, a personality, and a private workspace, then open it in the builder.

You can also hire from our ready team - a curated set of skilled digital employees (Emma the newsletter pro, Ryan the leads hunter, and more) pre-trained for common roles. Click any of their cards on the Employees page to bring them into your account.

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Meet Your Employee

Once your employee is hired, you land in the builder. This is where you chat with your employee and shape how it thinks and works. The layout has two parts:

• Sidebar (left) - navigation between Chat, Brain, Files, Tasks, and Settings
• Chat panel (center) - where you talk to your employee

Your employee greets you with its name, a short intro, and a suggestion for what to do next based on the prompt you used to hire it.

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Chatting with Your Employee

The Chat tab is the main way you work with your employee. Just type what you want - it’s designed to respond like a capable coworker, not a form to fill out. You can ask it to:

• Write, summarize, or edit content
• Do research on the web and give you the highlights
• Save facts and preferences for later (“remember that my business is called Acme”)
• Connect to your Gmail or Google Calendar and act on your behalf
• Build and run small background tasks for you

You don’t need to learn commands or trigger words. The employee figures out what tools it needs and uses them behind the scenes.

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Brain: Knowledge and Integrations

The Brain section in the sidebar is where your employee’s mind lives. It has two sub-sections.

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Knowledge

This is where you shape who your employee is and what it knows about you. It includes:

• Profile - your employee’s name, emoji, avatar, creature type, and vibe
• Soul - your employee’s personality, boundaries, and core values
• User - what the employee has learned about you (your name, timezone, preferences, notes)
• Memory - long-term notes the employee has saved from your conversations
• Knowledge files - any documents or notes you want the employee to be able to reference

You can edit any of these directly, and your employee will also update them on its own as it learns more about you.

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Integrations

Connect your employee to the services you already use - Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Stripe, and 25+ others. Once connected, your employee can read, write, and act in those tools from inside a normal conversation - sending emails, booking meetings, posting updates, pulling reports, and more. To connect a service, click Connect on the integration card and authorize BuildAI in the popup window. See the full list of supported services in Connectors. Need something not on the list? Your employee can also call any HTTP API via a Custom integration.

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Files

The Files tab gives you a peek inside your employee’s private workspace. Every employee gets an isolated sandbox - a clean, safe environment where it can create files, run scripts, and store working documents. You can browse folders, open files, and edit them directly. This is helpful when your employee is working on something longer like a report, a script, or a multi-step project.

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Tasks

The Tasks tab is for automations that run on a schedule. You can hand off recurring work and your employee will run it in the background. For example:

“Every weekday morning at 8am, check my calendar and email me a summary.”

Your employee sets up the schedule and runs the task automatically. Tasks can run once at a future time, or on a recurring schedule (hourly, daily, weekly, and so on).

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Settings

The Settings tab is where you manage secrets - things like API keys or passwords your employee might need to talk to other services. Secrets are encrypted and never shown in chat. If your employee needs a key it doesn’t have, it will ask you to add it here.

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Channels

The Channels section at the bottom of the sidebar shows where you can reach your employee.

• BuildAI Chat - available now, this is the web chat you’re already using
• WhatsApp - coming soon
• Telegram - coming soon

When new channels ship, you’ll be able to message your employee from anywhere and pick up the conversation right where you left off.

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Frequently Asked Questions