Learn OpenLabor

44 short guides to running your AI team — how to choose an employee, what to say first, and how to turn one good output into work that repeats without you.

The lesson

One sitting, one finished document about your own company, nothing to connect.

Your first document: map your competition — In this tutorial we produce a real competitor map for your own company — one finished document, one sitting, nothing to connect.

Start here

Six short steps from an empty workspace to work you didn't do.

Choose your first employee — One employee hired — the right one — instead of six you'll never talk to.
Say the right first thing — A first conversation that produces something useful — instead of "hey" and a shrug.
Run your first superpower — A finished document in minutes — the fastest proof of what your employee can produce.
Connect an app — Your employee reading a real account — the difference between advice and work.
Put the work on a schedule — The thing it did well once, now arriving every week without you asking.
See what happened — The three screens that answer "what did my team do, and what needs me?"

Start with your employee

What to say in the first hour, one guide per role.

Start with your Founder — Founder, Founder — Reads the company back to you, every week. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Travel Agent — Travel Agent, Travel Agent — Plans and books the trip end to end. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Store Manager — Tobi, Store Manager — Operates your Shopify store end-to-end. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your CMO — Seth, CMO — Runs your entire marketing engine. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your CTO — Elon, CTO — Ships code while you sleep. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Sales Rep — Grant, Sales Rep — Books meetings you never could. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Designer — Jony, Designer — Ships pixels that actually convert. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Content Writer — Ann, Content Writer — 8 blog posts a week. Zero writer's block. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Data Analyst — Nate, Data Analyst — Finds the insight you missed. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your HR Manager — Patty, HR Manager — Hires faster than recruiters. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Accountant — Warren, Accountant — Your books, always clean. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Social Manager — Vee, Social Manager — Posts daily. You don't have to. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Email Secretary — David, Email Secretary — Inbox zero, every single day. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Receptionist — Iris, Receptionist — Nobody gets a busy signal. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Support Agent — Tony, Support Agent — Every ticket, every time. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Start with your Advisor — Alex, Advisor — Challenges your assumptions before the market does. From hire to first useful output in an hour.
Create a custom employee — A role that doesn't exist on the job board, built from a name, a role and a good description.

Working together

Get better output by managing them like people, not prompts.

Brief your employee like a real hire — An employee that knows your business well enough to stop asking — and to push back.
Put your employee on Telegram — Your employee in your pocket — same memory, same files, no dashboard needed.
Share an employee with your team — A teammate or an outside collaborator talking to your employee — without giving them your whole workspace.

Put it on autopilot

Schedules, triggers and approvals — work that starts without you.

Build your first trigger — A URL that turns an outside event — form, webhook, alert — into work done by your employee.
Let it act — without losing control — Employees that draft freely but never touch the outside world without your yes.
Autopilot: give a goal, not a task list — An employee working toward an outcome across days — planning its own tasks under a budget you set.

When something looks stuck

The short list of things that go wrong and what actually fixes them.

When something looks stuck — The four states that look broken, what each actually is, and the fix that works.

What your team can produce on demand

Every superpower, what it is for, and what it deliberately leaves to you.

Which superpower do you need — A way to pick one run out of sixty-five in under a minute — and to know what it will not do.
Superpowers for selling — The eight runs that fill a pipeline and move what is already in it.
Superpowers for marketing — The eleven runs that decide what you say, where, and against whom.
Superpowers for content and design — The ten runs that turn a subject into something publishable.
Superpowers for daily operations — The twelve runs that clear a backlog, watch a store, or plan a trip.
Superpowers for customer support — The four runs that turn a ticket queue into answers and documentation.
Superpowers for money and numbers — The seven runs that answer where the money is and what the data says.
Superpowers for decisions and hiring — The ten runs for when the next move is a choice, not a task.
Superpowers for engineering — The three runs that read a codebase or ship a page.

How it fits together

The four pages worth reading away from the keyboard — the model, and the three distinctions people get wrong.

How OpenLabor works — The whole platform in one mental model — five words and how they fit together.
Superpowers vs skills — when to use which — Knowing which of the two ways of asking gets the better result for the task in front of you.
Jobs vs triggers — which one you want — Knowing in one sentence whether the automation you're imagining is a schedule or a reaction.
Credits, simply — What credits pay for, where they go, and the two caps that protect you.

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