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The AI Workforce Factory

Odella is an AI workforce factory. Design the role, define the task, connect your templates and systems — and deploy. Build digital employees that execute tasks, follow your firm’s precedent, and scale instantly. These aren’t virtual assistants. They’re AI employees that work alongside your team, handling process work so your people can focus on expertise and strategic thinking.

Scale Without Headcount

Add capacity without adding overhead. Deploy AI employees in minutes, not months.

Work Where You Work

Delegate work over email, chat, Slack, or Teams. No system overhaul, no learning curve.

24/7 Operations

AI employees don’t burn out and don’t miss deadlines. They work around the clock.

Follow Your Precedent

Train AI employees on your firm’s tone, preferences, and process. They execute to your standards.

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The Workforce Overview Page

The page header reads “Workforce Overview,” with a subtitle about managing and monitoring your team of specialized AI employees. The top bar contains Search employee, Sort, and Add Worker.
Each AI employee appears as a card showing avatar, Name, Role, and a short description, along with status and controls:
  • Status, shown with a clock icon: Stopped, Available now, or Outside working hours. Status is driven by the working-hours widget on the worker’s profile — see The Worker Profile below.
  • Controls vary by status:
    • Stopped → play (start), knowledge/library, settings (gear).
    • Running (Available now / Outside working hours) → chat, pause, knowledge/library, settings.

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Adding a Worker

Click Add Worker on the Workforce Overview page.
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Choose How to Add a Worker

Two cards:
  • Hire from Marketplace — browse and hire pre-configured workers; ideal for common roles and quick starts.
  • Create New Worker — build a custom AI employee from scratch; best for specialized roles and unique requirements.
Select one and click Next.
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Choose a Setup Method (Create New Worker path)

“How would you like to set up your worker?” Two cards:
  • Let AI Help Me — describe the role and Kara sets up the skills, tools, and workflows for you.
  • I’ll Do It Myself — manually configure the worker step by step.
Select one and click Next.
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Let AI Help Me — Add the Details

“Describe the role or attach a job description and we’ll handle the rest.”
  • Describe the worker’s role in the free-text box, or use one of the starter templates (Payroll Administrator, Recruiting Coordinator, Expense Auditor, Invoice Processor, Document Controller).
  • Optionally attach a job description (PDF, DOC, DOCX, CSV, TXT, or Markdown).
  • Click Create Worker.
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I'll Do It Myself — Manual Configuration

  • Profile Image — choose an avatar.
  • Background Color — choose an avatar background color.
  • Add the details (keep the Purpose to 1–2 short sentences):
    • Name (e.g., “Kevin”)
    • Role (e.g., “Report Analyst”)
    • Purpose (e.g., “Analyzes performance data and produces clear reports for the team…”)
  • Click Create Worker.
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Hire from Marketplace

Clicking Hire from Marketplace → Next opens the Marketplace (“Discover Solutions for Every Task”):
  • Search bar for AI employees, templates, or workflows.
  • Content organized by category (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Customer Success), each with a template count.
  • Browse or search, select the AI employee you want, and click Hire.
Marketplace also covers templates and workflows, not only pre-built employees. See Marketplace Overview for a full walkthrough of the catalog.
Kara is Odella’s AI setup assistant, referenced in the “Let AI Help Me” flow and elsewhere in the product (e.g., “Choose what Kara can do…”, “Allow Kara to send alerts…”).
The new employee appears on the Workforce Overview page. Click on the employee to configure their skills, connect workflows, and manage settings.
Best Practices for Effective AI Employees:
  • Design clear, specific roles that match real workflow needs
  • Connect relevant knowledge so they can access your firm’s expertise
  • Start with simple tasks and expand capabilities over time
  • Use descriptive names that reflect their function in your organization

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Delegating Work to Your AI Employees

Interact with your AI employees the same way you work with your team - no new systems to learn, no complicated interfaces. These connections are configured on the worker’s profile, in two places:

Email

Connect an inbox from the Inboxes tab via Connect Inbox, so the employee can monitor email, keep context, and handle follow-ups.

Chat

Talk to the employee directly using the Chat button on their profile.

Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp & More

Add channels from the Add Communication Channels skill panel — see The Worker Profile below.

Microsoft Teams

Configure alongside your other communication channels from the Add Communication Channels skill panel.

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The Worker Profile

Clicking a worker on the Workforce Overview page opens their profile.
  • Avatar, Name, Role, description.
  • Start Worker / Pause Worker toggle (Start when stopped, Pause when running).
  • Chat button.
  • Three quick icons near the avatar: chat/message, contact/profile card, and a panel-collapse toggle.

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Left panel

Two tabs:
  • Inboxes — connect an inbox so the employee can monitor email, keep context, and handle follow-ups, via Connect Inbox. Empty state: “No inboxes connected.”
  • Applications (formerly “Applications to setup”) — connect plugins to this worker. See Integrations Overview.
Below the tabs:
  • Working hours / usage widget — scheduled vs. active hours for the week (e.g., “0 / 40h,” “Resets in 7 days”). This is the source of the overview cards’ status states.
  • Cost Breakdown — per-hour rate (e.g., “$0.55/h”).

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Worker tabs

The profile has seven tabs: Skills, Calendar, Actions, Workspace, Activity, Identity, Settings.
“Expand [worker]‘s Skills” — select a category to add a sub-skill. Categories: Tools, Workflows, Templates, Knowledge, Skills, and Communication Channels. Each opens a right-side panel with an Explore / Added toggle and a search box:
  • Skills Catalog — master catalog of all skills (125 shown), with “Created by you” plus left-hand category filters (Accounting, Compliance, Data, Design, Education, Engineering, Finance, General, Knowledge, Legal, …), each with a count. Select via checkbox.
  • Add Tools — “Choose what Kara can do by selecting tools.” External integrations (ABS Indicator API, Airtable, Alpaca Account, …), each showing a tool count (e.g., “+16 tools”) and a Connect button where auth is needed.
  • Add Workflows — “Add automated workflows to this employee.” Pre-built workflows (e.g., Apollo Lookalike Finder, Automated Onboarding Trigger), each with name, description, and select.
  • Add Templates — “Add response templates for this employee.” Document/response templates (e.g., QLD legal forms — powers of attorney, will intake checklist).
  • Add Knowledge — “Add knowledge bases and documents.” Connected knowledge bases (Contract Store, Employee Documents, Olivia_Drive, Personal Profile).
  • Add Communication Channels — “Connect to your team’s favorite messaging and email platforms.” Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc., each with a Configure button; some marked Free.
See Skill Tree for more detail.
An “Upcoming Tasks” pane plus a week/month calendar with timezone, Today / Week / Month controls, and an add-task button. Shows the worker’s scheduled tasks. See Calendar.
Event-driven automations. Empty state: “No actions configured — Create an action to automate what happens when events occur across your connected tools,” via Create New Action. Distinct from Workflows: Actions are event triggers across connected tools.
File store for the worker. “Upload files to Workspace or drag and drop them here.” Accepts common docs, text/data files, and standard images; up to 20 files, 25MB each.
Live event log/console (e.g., “activity - atlasperfection370,” Live indicator) with filters: All, Threads, Workflows, Heartbeats, Tasks, Subagents. Shows runtime events. See Activity.
  • Agent Profiles — avatar, Name, Role, Purpose, Personality (dropdown, e.g., Default), Voice (e.g., Roger — “Laid-back, casual, resonant,” with preview), Manager.
  • General Instructions — rich-text editor for operational guidelines, tone of voice, escalation policies, and more.
This is where post-creation editing of name/role/purpose/avatar lives, plus personality, voice, manager, and instructions. See Identity.
See the Settings pages for the areas already documented.

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Scale Your Operations Without Scaling Costs

With Odella’s AI workforce, you add capacity instantly without the overhead of hiring, training, or onboarding. Your team focuses on strategy, relationships, and outcomes — while AI employees handle the process work. Start building your AI workforce today and transform how your organization scales.