Plan the company in waves
Decide the roles, then hire in the order their inputs arrive.
✦ Course · Intermediate
Run a company of agents
Hire a five-agent team in waves, run it through a group chat, add a routine that keeps working, and get an honest wrap.
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You will run a real multi-agent build end to end: research, brand, finance, a live storefront preview and a launch plan, then a graded wrap.
Hire in waves so each wave reads the last Run the company in the group; do the work in sessions End with a grade and a list of what is missing
5 min
Hire the first wave
One agent, one cited document, and the workspace everyone else will read.
Open the launch team
A group chat is where you run the company; sessions are where the work happens.
Hire two at once
Brand and finance run in parallel, both reading the same brief.
Build and market
Engineering ships a live preview; marketing starts from a Marketplace template.
Keep it running, then grade it
A Monday routine, a status round, one steer, and an honest wrap.
What each lesson covers
The course, lesson by lesson.
Plan the company in waves
Decide the roles, then hire in the order their inputs arrive.
A company of agents is a set of roles with a flow between them: research feeds brand and finance, brand and finance feed engineering and marketing. Hire in waves so each employee can read what the previous one produced from the shared workspace. Two hires in one wave is the payoff: two rows running at once.
Practice. Write your own five-role table for a real project: name, role, and which earlier role each one depends on. Order them into three waves.
Wave 1: Mia · Head of Research. Wave 2: Theo · Brand and Priya · Finance (both read Mia's brief). Wave 3: Sam · Engineering and Lena · Marketing (read Theo's board and Priya's plan). Then a routine: Monday scan.
Hire the first wave
One agent, one cited document, and the workspace everyone else will read.
The first hire sets the standard for the rest: a goal with the deliverable, the sources and a finish line, and a rule about evidence. "Never invent a figure; cite it or flag it" is the line that makes every downstream number trustworthy. Its output lands in Doc Manager, where later hires can read it.
Practice. Hire your research role first with a goal that names the deliverable format and the citation rule. Open the finished document and check one citation before you hire anyone else.
Name: Mia · Head of Research. Goal: I'm starting an online shoe store on dropshipping: everyday sneakers and casual shoes, Australia first, then New Zealand, from a $25,000 start. You are our head of research. Research this market with sources: size and growth of online footwear in Australia, the top five competitors and their price points, the realistic dropshipping supplier options with lead times to Australia and typical landed cost per pair, and the three biggest risks. Deliver a two-page opportunity brief as a Word document with every figure cited. Never invent a figure; cite it or flag it.
Open the launch team
A group chat is where you run the company; sessions are where the work happens.
New agent, Create group chat, a name, and members. The room uses the same feed and bar as any chat. @everyone addresses the room; @Name directs one member; Work ↗ beside a member opens their session. Add each hire to the room as they join, and ask them to post what they made and what they would flag.
Practice. Create your group, add your first agent, and post a welcome message that says what the company is building and what you expect each member to post when they finish.
@everyone Welcome to the launch team. We're building an online shoe store on dropshipping, Australia first, $25,000 to start. Mia is on the market brief. As each of you finishes, post what you made and what you'd flag.
Hire two at once
Brand and finance run in parallel, both reading the same brief.
Wave two is two goals given back to back. Both start with "Read Mia's opportunity brief in the workspace first". Theo delivers names, a trademark check, logo concepts and a brand board; Priya delivers a business plan and a three-year model whose assumptions sheet every downstream number references. Watch both rows run at the same time.
Practice. Hire two roles in a row with goals that both start by reading the first wave's document. While they run, add both to the group.
Priya · Finance, role Finance lead, goal: Use the figures in Mia's opportunity brief. Write the business plan as a Word document: positioning, the launch range (12 products), suppliers and fulfilment, pricing, marketing, operations and 12-month milestones. Then build the 3-year financial model as a spreadsheet: an assumptions sheet, unit economics per pair, a monthly P&L, cash runway from $25,000, and break-even month. Add a chart of monthly revenue against cash balance. Carry it through to completion.
Build and market
Engineering ships a live preview; marketing starts from a Marketplace template.
Wave three produces the visible things: Sam builds the storefront as a Vite React site with a catalogue, product pages and a pre-order form, runs his health checks and publishes a preview URL; Lena writes the launch calendar and drafts the email, draft only. Lena is a good place to import instead of writing from scratch: the Content calendar planning template already knows the job; the setup card lets you rename it and replace the goal.
Practice. Hire one builder with "run your health checks, fix what they find, then publish a live preview and give me the URL". For the marketing role, open Marketplace, import Content calendar planning, and rewrite its goal on the setup card.
Sam · Engineering, role Web engineer, goal: Use Theo's brand board and the launch range from Priya's plan. Build the storefront as a Vite React site: home page, a catalogue of the 12 launch products with generated product images that match the brand, a product page, and a pre-order form that captures an email address. Run your health checks, fix what they find, then publish a live preview and give me the URL. Commit your work as you go.
Keep it running, then grade it
A Monday routine, a status round, one steer, and an honest wrap.
The company keeps working after you stop typing: a routine scans the competitors every Monday at eight. A status round, "@everyone Where are we? One line each", shows the state in seconds. A steer, "@Sam change the button and republish", shows the model: you talk to an employee, they change the work. The wrap is the most credible minute: each member grades its work against the acceptance checks it wrote first, and the room lists what is still missing before the store could take a paid order.
Practice. Add a weekly routine to the company, run one status round in the group, steer one member, then ask the room to grade itself and list the gaps.
@everyone Grade what you built against the acceptance checks you wrote before you started, and give me one plain list of what's still missing before this store can take its first paid order.
Keep going
Make the learning stick
Start with one real piece of work.
Open Oppermind beside the lesson, apply each step, and leave with something you can use.