Workers

The Workers hub is where you manage people, not their to-do lists. It’s your full roster across every Company, with sub-tabs for growing and quality-checking your team: hire and inspect workers, train them in the Academy, bench-test them, and watch how they’re performing right now.

How to get here

Click 👥 Workers in the sidebar. The screen opens on whichever sub-tab you last used (the Workers roster by default).

👥 Workers (the roster)

The default tab: every persona you’ve created, across all Companies, with their profiles, levels, and quick options. Click a worker to open their profile.

🎓 Academy (training)

Train workers on company or domain knowledge. Completing a track awards a graduation badge tied to a version, so you can see what a worker has been brought up to speed on — and re-train them when the material changes.

🧪 Testing (quality-check)

Bench a worker to check its knowledge and tool use, via a mix of free-form chat and a set of automated rubric probes. Use it before you trust a worker with real, unattended work.

📊 Operating (live performance)

The live dashboard for the workforce: what’s running, recent tasks, throughput, and cost. The “is my team actually getting things done?” view.

The task kanban is NOT here

The Workers hub is about the people. The task kanban board lives under each Company → ✅ Tasks — see the Company profile page. If you came here looking for a board to drag task cards across, open the relevant Company instead.

Each worker carries these tabs too

A single worker’s profile has its own Academy and Testing “journey” cards, scoped to just that worker — handy when you want to train or test one person without leaving their page.

In practice

Bench a worker before you trust it with unattended work. 🧪 Testing exists for the gap between “this worker answered well in chat while I watched” and “this worker will handle it correctly at 3am with nobody reading the output.” A rubric run costs a few minutes and tells you which of those you have.

🎓 Academy earns its keep when your material changes. Because certifications are tied to a version, you can see what a worker was brought up to speed on — and know to re-train it after the brand guide or the product spec is rewritten. Without that marker, a worker confidently applying last quarter’s rules looks identical to one applying this quarter’s.

📊 Operating answers “is the team actually producing?” Throughput and cost side by side is the honest view. A roster of twelve workers where two do all the work is a common outcome and worth knowing about — you can retire the rest or find them real jobs.

Tasks aren’t here. This hub is about the people. The kanban board lives under Company → ✅ Tasks; if you came looking for cards to drag, open the Company profile instead.

🎓 Learn it hands-on: The 95-profession catalog · Train a worker

Terms in this page

• Worker / persona — a configured AI character (name, role, model, allowed tools, memory) that does the work. “Persona” is the technical name for the same thing.
• Roster — the full list of your workers; the default Workers tab.
• Academy — the training surface. Workers are brought up to speed on knowledge and earn versioned graduation badges.
• Certification / badge — a marker that a worker completed a training track at a given version.
• Testing / bench — putting a worker through checks (free chat plus automated probes) to gauge quality before trusting it.
• Rubric — a fixed set of scoring criteria used to grade a worker’s answers consistently.
• Operating dashboard — the live performance view: running work, recent tasks, throughput, and cost.
• Throughput — how much work the team is completing over a period.
• Kanban — a board with columns (To-do, In progress, Review, Done) where each task is a card. In askTheodor this lives per-Company, not on the Workers hub.
• Level — a worker’s progression marker; rises with use. Shown on the roster and the profile.