Use this guide before opening Agents. You will define a first job that your team can explain, test, and measure.
Before you begin
Choose the team that will own the AI employee and gather the source material that team already trusts. Avoid beginning with every possible audience or workflow.
Steps
1. Choose the audience
Name the people the AI employee will help, such as website visitors, new customers, learners, callers, or an internal operations team.
2. Choose one repeated task
Pick a task that happens often enough to review and improve. Examples include answering common questions, preparing a support handoff, guiding one onboarding stage, qualifying a visitor, or explaining training material.
3. Choose approved information
List the websites, documents, presentations, policies, videos, or written notes the AI employee may use. Start with one current source when possible.
4. Define a visible result
Choose a result that shows whether the job worked. Depending on the role, that might be a visitor reaching a clear next step, a prepared handoff, a completed onboarding stage, or a learner understanding the material.
5. Add boundaries and human handoff
Write down what the AI employee must not guess, which requests need a person, and which connected actions require confirmation.
6. Complete the job sentence
Use this structure:
This AI employee helps [audience] complete [task] using [approved information], and succeeds when [visible result] happens.
Share the sentence with the team that owns the source material. Revise any vague word before building.
Expected result
You have one agreed job sentence, a named owner, an initial source, a boundary list, and a result you can review after testing or launch.
Status meanings
Planning a first job has no Aivah status. Treat the plan as ready when the audience, repeated task, approved source, boundaries, owner, and observable result are all named. If any item is missing, keep the job in draft and narrow it before building.
Usage credit impact
Defining the job outside the workspace does not consume usage credits. Building and testing the employee may use credits through supported activity; check the balance shown in your workspace.
Information stored or shared
This planning exercise is not stored by Aivah until you enter the information into guided setup or Agents. Do not place private customer records, passwords, payment details, or secret connection values in the job definition.
Limits and permanent actions
A result such as “better customer experience” is too broad on its own. Choose something your team can observe in the available records. The first job is not permanent: you can improve it after testing, but major employee settings may require creating and validating a replacement.
Common problems and recovery
- Several teams want different jobs: choose one owner and publish separate job definitions for later work.
- The source has conflicting versions: select the approved version and remove the rest from the initial build.
- The result cannot be observed: replace it with a concrete next step or record your team can review.
- The job involves sensitive or high-stakes decisions: keep a person responsible for review and final decisions.
Next step
If your account is new, create your account and complete guided setup. Otherwise, create your first AI employee.
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