Name them. Give them a job.
Hiring is the product. A standing brief and a computer of their own — not another thread in a list.
The first useful sentence in 8staff is not a prompt. It is a hire. A name, a standing job, a computer. After that, every morning starts briefed.
First run seeds three so you are not staring at empty chairs: Scout for research, Maker for building, Closer for outreach. They are not themes. They are desks.
Standing work beats clever prompts
A clever prompt dies at the end of the thread. A standing job is still true tomorrow: watch these topics, build from this brief, draft the replies and wait for Allow. You can still talk to them. Talking is not the job. The job is the job.
A fourth desk is a sentence
You do not fill out a ten-field form to expand the floor. You say who they are and what they do. Riley writes emails. The app creates Riley, gives them a computer, and starts the work. Scout does not get drafted into Riley’s job. That is what a roster is for.
Three windows, like a real floor. Drag a chat beside. Click still opens in the main column.
Plugins are furniture, not the hire
Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, GitHub, Notion — connected on this machine, handed to the desk that needs them. Advanced is the MCP catalog. You do not hire a plugin. You hire Riley, and Riley gets the inbox.