# Monday morning. The report is already in the channel.

> What AI agents do for a business team: the weekly sales report, the meeting brief, answers from shared files. Each agent has an owner and a budget.

- Canonical: https://secondstack.ai/for/business-teams/

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SecondStack is an AI agent platform. This view is written for business teams: what agents do for a team every week, how a team sets one up and what it spends.

AI agents for business teams take on the work your team repeats: the weekly report, the meeting brief, the answer to what was decided last week. Each one has an owner and runs on a budget you can see.

## Example: one Monday, three agents at work

- **07:00, Named agent** (@sales-analyst, Slack · #sales): on its schedule (every Monday at 07:00), it posts: "Weekly pipeline: 12 deals moved forward, 3 stalled. The sheet is attached."
- **08:40, Personal agent** (Aster, Maria's agent, Slack · direct message): the ask: "Prepare me for the Acme meeting." The reply: "Brief sent: who is coming, what was agreed last time, two open points."
- **09:15, Project agent** (Q4 launch, web app · Project thread): the ask: "What did we decide on the launch date?" The reply: "October 28, agreed in Thursday's thread. Tom has the checklist."

Names are illustrative.

## Hire a sales analyst for the weekly report.

Your team sets it up the way you would brief a new hire: describe the role, give it access, try it where nothing gets posted, then put it to work.

1. **Describe the role**: What it does, how it answers, which AI model it uses.
2. **Give it access**: Its accounts and files, under Connected accounts, and who may call it.
3. **Try it in Workbench**: The test area: runs post nothing to Slack, Telegram or your Projects.
4. **Publish it**: It goes live as a version. Edits stay in draft until you publish again.
5. **Put it to work**: Mention it, message its bot, or schedule it as a Job.

## It answers where your team already talks.

A named agent gets its own Slack bot: the channel receives what it posts on a schedule, and anyone can ask it for more.

Channels: web app, Slack, Telegram and Microsoft Teams (coming).

## Your team's budget, by person.

Each agent runs on its sponsor's budget, the person or team that funds it, or on the budget of whoever calls it. You see what your team spent, and on what.

- Admins and team leads set the budgets and see where they go.
- Alerts go out when spend passes a threshold you set.

## Questions team leads ask.

### Do we need IT to set up an agent?

A team can set up a named agent in the web app: what it does, which accounts and files it may use, who may call it. Your admins decide which AI models the team may use and which budget the agent runs on.

### Can it work in Slack?

Yes. Your personal agent answers Slack direct messages, and a named agent gets a Slack bot of its own, so a channel can call it by name or receive what it posts on a schedule. Telegram works the same way; Microsoft Teams is coming.

### Can I try an agent before the team sees it?

Yes. Test runs happen in Workbench, the test area: they stay out of chat history and post nothing to Slack, the shared workspace or anywhere else.

### What happens to my teammate's mailbox when a shared agent runs?

Nothing. Only a person's own personal agent can act as them, through the accounts they connected. A named agent works with accounts its owner gives it, or with none, and a project agent works from the shared workspace's files.

## Further reading

- [The company brain: own the history it will be built from](https://secondstack.ai/blog/company-brain/)

## Bring one job your team repeats every week.

On the demo call we show how a named agent would run it, where the result lands, and the record it leaves.

Book a demo: hello@secondstack.ai