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Work AI Staff — your productivity agent

The specialist for your Work area: projects, meetings, docs, and follow-ups — not a generic productivity GPT that has never seen the task.

Work AI Staff is scoped on purpose. It should know Project Alpha’s thread and the brief in the taskspace — and it should not mix that with school pickup.

Use it inside Work and its projects. After a call, it can summarize, create tasks, and draft a client email from the same files. CoS only steps in when that work collides with Family or Health.

Per project

Taskspace context

Chat, files, and tasks for that work

After

Meetings become work

Notes, owners, follow-up mail

With CoS

Life still visible

Focus blocks vs family holds

Traditional tools

Slack + Docs + a chatbot that has never opened the project.

With Maicos

Work AI Staff reads the same chat, files, and tasks you already use in the Work area.

What this agent does

Project-scoped help, not a second brain in a side chat.

Tasks from real load

Priorities come from the project task list and the calendar, not a floating to-do bot that you have to keep honest.

Docs in the taskspace

“Update the brief from yesterday’s notes” only works if the doc lives next to the chat. That is the Create suite inside the project, not an upload to another AI.

Meeting close-out

Calls in Maicos stay attached to the project. Ask for decisions, owners, and a draft follow-up without an orphaned recording.

People, not handles

Contacts and @mentions tell it who owns the next step. “Message Sarah about the timeline” resolves in this project, not a mystery Sarah from last year.

How to use Work AI Staff

Stay in the project. Do not start a parallel chatbot for the same work.

1

Open the Work area or the project

Context is the point. A blank Home chat is for CoS; deep work is here.

2

Work as you already do

Chat, files, tasks, docs. Ask the staff to summarize, draft, or file follow-ups in those objects.

3

Keep sending collaborative until you trust it

Client email should be a draft you send. Recurring status rollups can become a scheduled routine later.

4

Let CoS guard the edges

If a working session lands on a family event, that alert is CoS — not Work AI Staff pretending it owns your whole life.

Worked example: Friday client update

The thread is long, the brief is in Docs, the call was yesterday.

  1. 1

    You ask in the project

    “Summarize what we owe the client Friday and draft the email.”

  2. 2

    Staff reads the taskspace

    Chat decisions, the brief, open tasks, yesterday’s call notes if the call lived here.

  3. 3

    You get artifacts, not a speech

    A short status, owners, and a draft in Email — still tied to Project Alpha.

  4. 4

    You send or edit

    Nothing goes to the client until you do, unless you later automate a status appflow on purpose.

The draft can mention the actual deliverable names because they were already in the project. That is the whole difference.

Ask in the project, not in a vacuum

Name the outcome. Work AI Staff should not need a pasted PDF of the brief that already sits in Files.

"Summarize Project Alpha, list owners, and draft Friday’s client update"

project-alpha.mtasks

Send contract draft
Client follow-up by FridayDue
Schedule review call
AI: Focus on client follow-up — Thu PM is open

Tools this agent uses in Maicos

The same apps you already work in — not a second chatbot that needs uploads.

What this agent does not do

Useful agents have a job description. These limits keep this page honest — and help you pick a different agent when you need one.

Real-world use cases

How people use this every day.

Meeting follow-up

Notes become tasks and a draft email in the same project, with owners taken from the people who were actually on the thread.

Focus plan

“What should I finish today?” using the task list and the holes in the calendar — then CoS if a hole is not actually free.

Private career track

A Work sub-area for goals and materials you do not want in a client project. Still work, still not Family.

Handoff from mail

An email thread becomes a task without forwarding it to another AI product.

Frequently asked questions

What is a work AI assistant in Maicos?

Work AI Staff is personal AI for your Work area: projects, meetings, docs, and tasks. It is coordinated with the rest of your life by the Chief of Staff, but it does not run your company workspace.

Can it run my whole company?

No. For shared pipelines, seats, and customer-facing agents, create an enterprise workspace. Personal Work AI Staff is for your work.

Does it replace Jira or Asana?

It uses Maicos Tasks, Docs, and Chat in the project. If your team already lives in Jira, do not pretend this page is a Jira importer — use it where the work is in Maicos.

How do I keep client data out of family chat?

Keep client work in Work projects. CoS can still warn about calendar collisions without copying files across areas.

What about after-hours mail?

Triage sits with the Email agent; Work AI Staff picks up once something is a project task. CoS can put both on the briefing.

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