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The Future of Work

Every Person Gets an AI Agent. The Agents Talk to Each Other.

Your agents coordinate with each other so your humans don't have to.

// SERVICE_INFO

DEPLOYMENT

One department, 4-6 weeks

WHAT CHANGES

Agents do the coordination. Humans do the decisions.

POWERED BY

Minerva platform + Alexandria memory

// THE IDEA

Pick a department. Every person gets a personal AI agent — built on Minerva, our 'future of work' platform that we originally developed for scientists and are now adapting to every knowledge-intensive role. The agents draft, triage, research, and follow up. The humans review and decide. But here's the big thing: the agents talk to each other. Your agent contacts theirs. No diary tennis. No "just following up." The coordination cost that dominates most organisations collapses.

// WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE

Sales Team

Agents enrich leads, draft personalised outreach, coordinate handoffs between SDRs and account executives, and follow up on schedule. Real results: 3-5 qualified meetings per week for ~$40/month in API costs.

Operations Team

Agents handle client onboarding end-to-end — folder creation, welcome emails, CRM updates, calendar invites, access provisioning. 3-4 hours of admin compressed to 15 minutes, per client.

Research Team

Agents monitor publications, surface relevant papers, compile briefings, and connect researchers with shared interests. We've already built this for the National Cancer Institute — it works.

Legal / Compliance Team

Agents monitor regulatory changes, flag relevant updates, draft initial assessments, and route to the right specialist. The repetitive scanning work disappears.

Any Team

Email triage, meeting preparation, document drafting, competitive monitoring, internal knowledge lookup. Start with whatever creates the most value and expand from there.

// SECURITY

We take security seriously. Every deployment runs in isolated containers. Agents only access what they're explicitly permitted to. Self-extending is disabled by default. Skills are audited before installation. We work directly with your security and IT teams to address every concern before anything goes live.

// WHY AGENT-TO-AGENT MATTERS

Everyone is building individual agents. We're building agents that work together. An individual agent is a productivity tool. A network of agents that coordinate is an organisational capability. The humans still make the decisions — they just stop spending half their day making sure information gets to the right place.

// HOW IT WORKS

4 weeks

Assess

Pick the department. Map roles, workflows, and coordination bottlenecks. Work with your security and IT teams on container isolation, permissions, and network policies. Every concern addressed before a single agent goes live.

12 weeks

Build & Launch

Configure each agent: role definition, tool access, memory, permissions, escalation rules. Agent-to-agent communication layer. Connect to your existing tools — email, CRM, Slack, calendars. Deploy to the team. Agents start read-only, then permissions expand as trust builds.

Ongoing

Compound

The agents learn. Memory accumulates. Coordination patterns optimise. Scale to more departments when ready.

// THE OUTCOME

Not a chatbot bolted onto Slack. A managed, governed deployment where every agent action has an audit trail — and the whole system gets smarter every week it runs.

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