> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Employees overview > Hire AI employees with a role, instructions, memory, a computer of their own, and the apps you connect, then give them work in chats, group chats, tasks, and routines. An AI employee is an AI teammate with a job: a support rep, a designer, a business analyst, or any role you describe. Each one has a name and portrait, standing instructions, a memory, a computer of its own, and the apps you connect to it. You talk to it like a colleague, in a direct message or in a group chat with other employees. It also works on its own, on a schedule or when something happens. Unless you change it, it asks for your approval before it sends or changes anything. Watch the 13-minute tutorial to see every feature on the real product, from hiring a team to routines and voice calls. [AI Employees Tutorial: Hire an AI Team That Works Together (Full Guide)](https://www.youtube.com/embed/imsImofdNgk) ## How AI Employees differ from Marky and Agents | | Who it works for | Where you use it | | - | - | - | | **[Marky Agent](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/marky/overview.md)** | You, one task at a time | Chats in the Marky sidebar | | **AI Employees** | You and your team, as a team of specialists that hand work to each other and remember your business | Direct messages, group chats, tasks, routines, Slack, and voice calls | | **[Agents](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/agents/overview.md)** | Your customers | Your website, WhatsApp, email, phone, and other channels | Employees run on the same engine as Marky, so they can search the web, use a browser, work with files and code, make images and videos, and use your connected apps. A few of Marky's jobs stay with Marky: employees don't build websites or slide decks, and they don't run deep research. ## How it works **1. Hire your team** Pick the kinds of work you do and hire the team we propose, led by a Chief of Staff. Or choose from 19 ready-made roles, or describe your own. See [Hire employees](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/hire.md). **2. Tell them about your business** Fill in the [company profile](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/company-profile.md) once, and every employee reads it. Add [knowledge](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/knowledge-memory-skills.md) such as price lists and policies, and [connect the apps](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/apps.md) each employee needs. **3. Give them work** Message an employee [directly](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/direct-messages.md), brief the whole team in a [group chat](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/group-chats.md), or file a [task](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/tasks.md). You can also [call an employee](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/voice-calls.md) or talk to them in [Slack](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/slack.md). **4. Let them work on their own** [Routines](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/routines.md) run on a schedule, when a webhook is called, or when an email arrives, even while you're away. **5. Review and approve** Emails, calendar changes, and changes in your apps wait for your [approval](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/approvals.md). Delivered tasks wait for your review. ## Find your way around Click **AI Employees** in the sidebar, or go to [easy-peasy.ai/employees](https://easy-peasy.ai/employees). The first time, it opens [team onboarding](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/hire.md#hire-a-team). After that, it opens your team's messenger: | Part | What it's for | | - | - | | **+** (New) | **New group chat** or **Hire employees**. | | **Tasks** | The board of [tasks](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/tasks.md) your team tracks in group chats, with what's waiting for you. | | **Approvals** | Actions your employees prepared that [wait for your approval](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/approvals.md). | | **Company profile** | What [every employee knows](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/company-profile.md) about your business. | | **Group chats** | [Group chats](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/group-chats.md) with several employees. **Shared with you** lists group chats other people [invited you to](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/invite-people.md). | | **Direct messages** | One conversation per employee. Each row shows the last message and whether the employee is working or **Waiting for you**. | | The bell | Turns on browser notifications for when an employee needs you or finishes work. | ![The AI Employees messenger: Tasks, Approvals and Company profile at the top of the menu, the Team group chat, direct messages with six employees, and the Team chat open](https://mintcdn.com/easy-peasyai/n4m2_eaKJOfCT0eD/images/ai-employees/overview-messenger.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=n4m2_eaKJOfCT0eD\&q=85\&s=10568adfc6a19cede5c5d03ce3b15750) ### Employee workspace In a direct message, click **Manage** to open the employee's workspace. To open another employee's workspace, click the employee's name at the top of the menu. | Section | What it's for | | - | - | | **Overview** | Its conversations, active routines, what's waiting for you, and recent routine runs. | | **Approvals** | This employee's approvals and its [approval settings](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/approvals.md#choose-what-needs-approval). | | **Routines** | Work it does on its own. See [Routines](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/routines.md). | | **Computer** | The files on [its computer](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/computer.md). | | **Profile** | Name, portrait, instructions, quality, knowledge base, approvals, voice, and status. See [Profile and quality](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/profile.md). | | **Apps** | The [apps it can use](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/apps.md), and [Slack](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/slack.md). | | **Knowledge** | Documents and pages it searches before answering. | | **Skills** | Step-by-step guides it follows for specific jobs. | | **Memory** | What it remembers about you, your business, and its work. | ![Nova's workspace on Overview: Message and New conversation, counts of conversations, active routines and what's waiting for you, a recent routine run, and her conversations, with the workspace sections in the menu](https://mintcdn.com/easy-peasyai/n4m2_eaKJOfCT0eD/images/ai-employees/overview-workspace.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=n4m2_eaKJOfCT0eD\&q=85\&s=3057a14829a5e10a4906acb4e8ac5de0) See [Knowledge, memory, and skills](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/knowledge-memory-skills.md) for the last three. ## What AI Employees cost Employees use your plan's words, the same allowance as Marky, at the rate of each employee's model. Anything they generate, such as images and videos, uses image & video credits like it does in Marky. Hiring, group chats, tasks, and approvals don't cost anything extra. Your plan sets how many employees you can have: | Plan | Employees | | - | - | | Free | 1 | | Starter | 3 | | Unlimited plans | 10 | | Teams plans | 20 for each person | | Enterprise | 50 | See [Limits and usage](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/limits-and-usage.md) for everything else, such as voice calls and invited people. > [card] [Hire employees](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/hire.md) > > Hire a team in one click, or one role at a time. > [card] [Work with an employee](https://easy-peasy.ai/docs/ai-employees/direct-messages.md) > > Give your first task in a direct message. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.