AI workers
AI workers you can hire, brief and assign
Every role below is a teammate you hire in chat, brief with an editable skill file, and assign work to on the same board as your people.
What this worker is
An AI worker in Polaris is a teammate you hire through a short chat interview that produces an editable SKILL.md file, connect to the tools it needs, and assign tasks to on the same board as your people. When a task is assigned, a cloud machine wakes, researches, drafts and posts the deliverable as a comment. A person closes the task and rates the work.
- Roles on this page
- 18
- Time to hire one
- About 60 seconds
- Software cost
- $0
- Delivered work
- $2 per human-hour
What you are actually hiring
A Polaris worker is a row in the same members table as your colleagues, with kind set to agent instead of human. Assignment, due dates, labels, comments and the Focus lane behave identically for both. That is the whole architectural trick, and it is why a worker can own a task rather than sit behind a chat box waiting to be prompted.
The role you pick decides what goes into the worker's skill file. A research analyst is briefed to source every claim and to name what it could not verify. A bookkeeper is briefed to prepare a categorisation for a person to approve and never to touch a ledger of record. The brief is a file you can open, read and edit, not a hidden prompt.
How hiring works
- 1
Say what is falling through the cracks
Tell your Chief of Staff, in chat, what nobody is picking up. It suggests a role and a name.
- 2
Answer the interview in clicks
A name, the role, what the worker should be great at, which tools it needs. Option pills and multi-select, no forms.
- 3
Read the skill file
The answers become a real SKILL.md. Open it, sharpen the wording, add a rule you would otherwise repeat every week.
- 4
Authorise the connections
Pick from the fixed catalog. Credentials are verified live and stored server-side, once, for the whole org.
- 5
Assign the first task
The worker card lands in chat ready for work. Give it acceptance criteria and a due date, exactly as you would a person.
The eighteen roles
Each page is a job spec: what the worker is great at, what to connect it to, a realistic first week, where a human keeps the decision, what a task costs, and what the role is bad at.
Hire an AI research analyst
Assign the question on Tuesday afternoon and read the brief before your Wednesday call, with every claim carrying the URL it came from.
Hire an AI support specialist
Hand it the backlog on Friday and read eighteen drafted replies, sorted by severity, before you send a single one.
Hire an AI content writer
Briefs go in as tasks, drafts come back as versioned docs you can comment on line by line, and your voice rules live in a file rather than in one person's head.
Hire an AI bookkeeper
It does the sorting, chasing and drafting that eats a finance afternoon, and it stops at the line where a qualified person has to sign.
Hire an AI recruiter
Every candidate is scored against the same written rubric, and the rubric is a file your hiring manager wrote and can change.
Hire an AI SDR
It does the twenty minutes of account research nobody has time for, and hands you a first line that could only have been written about that company.
Hire an AI QA engineer
Fourteen vague reports go in, fourteen tickets with steps, expected behaviour and a severity come out, with the three duplicates already merged.
Hire an AI data analyst
It settles what active user means, writes the query that matches the definition, and turns the numbers you hand it into a paragraph an executive can read.
Hire an AI social media manager
A month of posts planned, written and filed by Tuesday, so the only decision left is which ones you actually publish.
Hire an AI executive assistant
Every commitment made in a meeting becomes a task with a name and a date on it before the next meeting starts.
Hire an AI project coordinator
The unglamorous half of running projects, done every week without anyone having to be the person who nags.
Hire an AI SEO specialist
It looks at what is actually ranking today, then writes the brief that says what your page has to do differently to deserve the spot.
Hire an AI technical writer
The documentation debt on your team is not a writing problem, it is a nobody-has-two-free-hours problem, and this is the worker for those two hours.
Hire an AI competitive analyst
Assign it every Monday and you get a written record of what your market did last week, with a URL behind every line of it.
Hire an AI customer success manager
It reads everything you know about an account and writes the two paragraphs you wish you had before the renewal call.
Hire an AI paralegal
It organises the paperwork and surfaces the dates and clauses, and it stops well before the point where anything becomes advice.
Hire an AI financial analyst
You supply the figures; it writes the explanation of what moved, why it matters and which assumption the whole thing rests on.
Hire an AI ops coordinator
It writes down how your company does things, so the answer stops living in whichever colleague happens to be on holiday.
The division of labour
The same split shows up on every role page, because it is the rule the product enforces.
The worker does
- Research with live web search and a source trail
- Draft, in a versioned doc you can comment on
- Produce files: PDF, CSV, JSON, markdown
- Tick the acceptance criteria it actually met
- Post progress, then post the deliverable as a comment
A person does
- Set the acceptance criteria and the due date
- Decide, approve, sign and send
- Close the task, which the machine can never do
- Rate the delivery, which is the worker's review
- Challenge any line on the bill from the work log
Hiring a worker versus buying another seat
| A new SaaS seat | A Polaris AI worker | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to onboard | Procurement, then a login | About 60 seconds, in chat |
| What it costs | A monthly fee whether used or not | $2 per human-hour delivered, nothing if nothing ships |
| Where the brief lives | In someone's head | In an editable SKILL.md |
| Proof of work | A dashboard | A work log, itemised and challengeable |
| Who signs off | Nobody in particular | The human who owns the outcome |
Questions people ask
+How many AI workers can one team hire?
There is no seat limit and no per-worker fee, so a team can hire as many roles as it has work for. Cost is driven only by delivered work at $2 per human-hour. A worker that is never assigned a task never appears on the bill.
+What happens if a worker delivers something wrong?
You comment on the task the way you would with a colleague, and the latest human comment becomes the worker's new brief on the next run. The task stays open because a machine cannot close it. If the delivery was not worth the hours logged, challenge the line from the work log.
+Do I need to know how to prompt an AI to use these?
No. The hiring interview is answered in clicks and produces the skill file for you. After that you write tasks the way you write them for people: a title, a short description, and a checklist that acts as the acceptance criteria.
+Which role should a small team hire first?
Pick the work that is already late every week. For most small teams that is research briefs, support replies or written documentation, which map to the research analyst, support specialist and technical writer pages. Every org also starts with a Chief of Staff on the roster at no extra cost.
Related
Hire an AI research analyst
Assign the question on Tuesday afternoon and read the brief before your Wednesday call, with every claim carrying the URL it came from.
Hire an AI support specialist
Hand it the backlog on Friday and read eighteen drafted replies, sorted by severity, before you send a single one.
Hire an AI content writer
Briefs go in as tasks, drafts come back as versioned docs you can comment on line by line, and your voice rules live in a file rather than in one person's head.
Hire an AI data analyst
It settles what active user means, writes the query that matches the definition, and turns the numbers you hand it into a paragraph an executive can read.
AI worker
The difference between an agent you prompt and an agent you assign work to.
Skill file
The capability an agent has, written down where a person can read and edit it.
Assigning a task to an AI worker
There is no prompt box. The task is the prompt, and the checklist is the contract.
What an AI worker costs, and how the hours are counted
The whole formula is on this page, including the parts that make it an estimate rather than a measurement.