Pre-built or custom
Browse 14 pre-built roles across sales, marketing, support, and operations, or use the custom builder to design a role that does not exist yet. Either way, your employee is ready in under a minute.
Things you hire or set up
A full workforce. Hired in seconds.
Browse a marketplace of pre-built AI agent roles and full teams, or build your own from scratch. Organize them into teams with leaders, set up your org chart, and onboard new hires in minutes. Every employee arrives configured and ready to deliver from day one.
Building an AI workforce starts with hiring the right people. The marketplace offers pre-built roles and complete teams across marketing, sales, support, research, and operations. Each employee arrives configured with the right skills, duties, tools, and persona for the job.
When no marketplace role fits, the Custom Employee Builder lets you assemble one from scratch. Pick skills, assign tools, write rules, shape the personality, and choose the AI model.
As your workforce grows, structure keeps it productive. Teams have leaders who delegate work, coordinate across departments, and report back. Organizations let you run separate AI workforces per client or department with full data isolation.
You do not have to commit to find out whether a role fits. Interview a candidate first, exactly as you would talk to them after hiring: describe a real piece of your work and watch how they would handle it. Hire from that same conversation and the transcript comes with them, so you are not repeating yourself to the employee you just chose. If it is not right, the candidate moves to the rejected column and you try someone else, with the whole pipeline visible on one board.
Nobody starts at a blank screen. Every new account already has a personal assistant hired and ready to talk, so your first move in Sistava is a conversation rather than a decision. Tell it what you are trying to get done and it helps you work out who to bring on, then hires them for you as you describe what you need. It is a real employee with the same memory and tools as any specialist, and it fills one of your active roles like any other hire.
Onboarding happens inside that conversation rather than in a settings panel. Your new hire opens with a short set of named starting points drawn from what that role actually does, you pick the ones that match your week, and the work begins there. Nothing asks you to fill in a profile before anything useful happens, and what you tell them in that first conversation is retained, so week two does not begin from nothing.
Structure is what keeps a growing workforce from turning into a group chat. A team has a leader who breaks a goal into pieces, hands each one to the right specialist, and comes back with the result, so you brief one and not five. Separate workspaces let an agency run a different workforce per client with the data kept apart, while the org chart shows who reports to whom. Hiring itself costs nothing and credits are used only when an employee does work, so pause a role you are not using, terminate one you do not need, and bring a former hire back later with its history intact.
At a Glance
- 14+
- Pre-built roles
- 2
- Full teams ready to hire
- 30s
- From click to working employee
Benefits
Teams with leaders
Group your AI employees into teams with a designated leader. The leader breaks down goals, assigns tasks to the right specialist, and reports back with results. Your org chart reflects your actual business structure.
Structured onboarding
New AI employees go through a five-step onboarding flow covering company context, team goals, skills, tool connections, and a first task warmup. They understand your business before they start working.
Multilingual Communication
Your AI employees can understand and respond in 15+ languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, and more. Advanced models offer high-quality output in most major world languages.
Interview before you hire
Chat with a candidate before committing, hand them a real piece of your work, and judge the answer rather than the job description. Hire from that same conversation and the transcript carries over, while candidates you pass on stay on the pipeline board for later.
How It Works
You hire AI employees from a marketplace or build custom ones, then organize them into teams with leaders and defined roles.
Browse the marketplace for pre-built AI agents specialized in sales, support, research, operations, and more. Each one comes with skills, duties, and a persona already configured. You can hire one in minutes or use the custom builder to design an AI employee from scratch, defining exactly what they know, how they behave, and what tools they have access to.
Once hired, you arrange your AI employees into teams with an AI leader who coordinates the group. The org chart mirrors how a real company works: leaders delegate, report up, and manage their team's workload. Onboarding is automatic, each AI employee gets loaded with your company knowledge, team context, and assigned tools the moment they join.
Day one is smaller than it sounds. Pick a role, or ask the assistant already sitting in your account to pick one with you, then talk to it about the first real job you want done. There is no configuration stage to clear first, because skills, duties, tools, and persona all arrive set for that role, and every part of it stays editable later by asking in plain language. If the marketplace has nothing close enough, the custom builder lets you assemble a role yourself, choosing what it knows, what it is allowed to use, the rules it follows, how it speaks, and which AI model powers it.
Use Cases
Hire a ready-made specialist in seconds
Browse the marketplace and hire a pre-configured AI employee for sales, support, research, or ops. No setup required: they arrive with skills, duties, and a persona already tuned for their role.
Build a custom employee from scratch
Use the custom builder to define exactly what your AI employee knows, how they behave, and which tools they can access. Tailor every detail to your specific workflow.
Scale a department with a full team
Hire multiple AI employees and organize them into teams with a leader. The leader coordinates work, delegates to specialists, and reports back, so you manage one entity, not ten.
Onboard new AI hires to your company
Walk each new hire through your company's context, policies, and tools during onboarding. They start informed and ready to work, not blank slates that need weeks of prompting.
FAQ
What is an AI employee, and how is it different from a chatbot?
An AI employee is a named role with a workspace of its own: a task board, a Drive holding the files it produces, a daily work journal, memory that carries across conversations, and a set of tools it is allowed to use. A chatbot answers the question in front of it and forgets you the moment the tab closes. The practical difference is that you brief an AI employee once and come back later to finished work instead of starting from nothing every time.
How do I decide which AI employee to hire first?
Start from the job that eats the most of your week rather than from the list of roles. The personal assistant already sitting in your account is built for exactly this: describe what you are trying to get done and it will suggest who to bring on and hire them for you. If you are torn between two roles, interview both before committing to either.
How do I know a role will work for me before I commit to it?
Interview the candidate. You get an ordinary conversation with that role before it joins your roster, so you can hand it a real piece of your work and judge the answer rather than the job description. Hiring straight from that conversation keeps the transcript, and passing costs you nothing and leaves the candidate on your pipeline board in case you reconsider.
What do I actually have to do on day one?
Pick a role and talk to it. Skills, duties, tools, and personality arrive already set for that role, so there is no configuration stage to get through, and your new hire opens with a few named starting points to choose from instead of an empty prompt box. The setup that would normally take a week is the conversation itself.
Do I need to know which skills and tools to give them?
No. Every role in the marketplace arrives with the skills, duties, and tools that job needs already assigned, and you change any of it later by asking in plain language rather than hunting through settings. Employees can also adjust their own setup as the work changes, so a gap you did not anticipate does not mean starting over.
What happens if I hire the wrong role?
Terminate it and the seat frees up for someone else straight away. A terminated employee can be kept and restored later with its state and history, so a role you shelved during a quiet month is not gone for good. Hiring the same role again after termination gives you a clean version reset to its defaults.
Can my colleagues use the AI employees I hire?
Yes. Invite collaborators into your workspace, up to the seats your plan includes, and they work with the same employees, boards, and Drive that you do. If you need genuinely separate groups, one per client for instance, create separate workspaces and their data stays apart.
Do I have to be good at writing prompts for this to work?
No. Brief an AI employee the way you would brief a colleague, in ordinary sentences, including the messy context you would normally have to explain twice. A standing preference can be written down once as a rule the employee follows every time, and what you tell them is retained, so you are not rewriting the same instructions every week.
Build Your AI Workforce
Scaling a human team means months of recruiting, onboarding, and training. With AI employees, you hire instantly and deploy immediately. Every AI agent you bring on already understands your business context, has access to the right tools, and starts contributing on day one.
Your workforce grows with your workload, not your headcount budget. Add specialist agents when you need them, organize them under leaders who coordinate work across the team, and restructure your org chart as your company evolves. You stay in control without managing day-to-day tasks yourself.
How It Works
- Pick From The Marketplace: Choose a pre-built AI agent built for your use case, or open the custom builder and configure one to your exact specifications.
- Organize Into Teams: Assign AI employees to teams, appoint an AI leader, and let the org chart structure who reports to whom.
- Deploy And Delegate: Each AI employee onboards automatically with your business knowledge and assigned tools, then starts working immediately.
We hired a support agent on Monday and it was handling tickets independently by Tuesday afternoon. The setup was maybe 20 minutes total.
Features in Fast Onboarding
- Hire an AI Employee: Browse the Marketplace and hire an AI employee for a specific role: a department specialist, a personal assistant, or a custom role you define from scratch. Hiring is free and instant. You land straight in the new employee's chat, and every skill, duty, and tool it starts with can be changed afterward from its dashboard.
- Interview Before Hiring: Chat with any employee template before you hire it, on the public marketplace pages or inside the app, to see how it thinks and communicates about your actual work. When you're convinced, say so in the conversation or click Hire; nothing is added to your team until you decide.
- Employee Builder: Employee Builder is the "Build Your Own" card in the Marketplace: instead of hiring a pre-built role, you start from a blank template and set the name, role, and persona yourself. The new hire starts with one skill, Research & Brief, and nothing else pre-assigned, so you add skills, duties, and tools from the Skills, Duties, and Tools tabs to match the exact job you need done. It is a Custom-plan feature; every other plan hires from the marketplace's pre-built roles instead.
- Personal Assistants: Every account starts with a Personal Assistant already hired, ready to talk before you decide who else to bring on. No marketplace trip, no setup, no decision to make first.
- Get Started Through Conversation: When you hire an AI employee, they land in your chat with a short greeting that names their role and what they handle, then ask what you need first. There is no setup wizard, no progress bar, and no settings panel to fill in before they can work. You customize name, persona, skills, and tools later from their dashboard, but none of that is required before the first message.
- Model Selection: Every employee runs on a model you choose, not one fixed default. Switch models per employee from the AI Models page whenever a job calls for more reasoning power or a cheaper, faster response.
- Manage Employee Status: Pause, resume, or let go of an AI employee without losing anything. Suspend an employee when you don't need them right now and bring them back exactly as you left them, or terminate one and keep their full chat history and work record in your Alumni list. Terminated employees stop counting against your plan's employee limit, and you can re-hire the same role later.
- Hire a Full Team: Hire a complete pre-built team from the Marketplace in one click: every member configured, a leader assigned, and sprint planning ready to start. Or build a custom team from your existing hires, pick a leader, and set it up yourself. Either way, you talk to one leader and they coordinate the rest.
- Keep Former Team Members: When you let an employee go, they don't disappear. Sistava moves them into your Alumni list, where their chat history and work stay intact and readable. If you need them back, one click restores them to active with everything they knew still in place.
- AI Employee Marketplace: Browse and hire AI employees in Sistava's AI Employee Marketplace. Preview each role's skills, duties, tools, and persona before you hire.
- Employee Avatar Upload: Upload a custom profile photo for any AI employee straight from their Profile tab, replacing the default generated avatar. JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP files up to 5 MB are accepted, and the change takes effect immediately. The photo appears everywhere that employee shows up: chat, the org chart, the virtual office, notifications, and task cards. Any member of your workspace can change it, not only the person who hired that employee.
- Multiple Workspaces: Create additional workspaces under the same login, each with its own AI employees, conversations, training data, billing, and collaborators. Nothing crosses a workspace boundary by default, so a separate client, business, or department stays fully isolated. Your plan sets how many workspaces you can create, and you switch between them without signing out.
- Academy Live Sessions: Learn how to put an AI employee to work in a live session with an Applied AI Engineer, tailored to your business. Sessions run about an hour, one on one or in a small group, and walk through the same curriculum as the free Academy course. Free for founders, one hundred dollars per session otherwise.
- Expert Directory: The Expert Directory connects businesses that want help building their AI workforce with vetted consultants and agencies who already do that work. Browse profiles, see each expert's region and budget range, and contact them directly. There is no commission taken on either side; you agree the scope and price with the expert yourself.
- Teams and Org Chart: Hire a pre-built team from the Marketplace and every member arrives created, configured, and reporting to an assigned leader. You talk to the leader, who breaks the work down, delegates it to the right teammate, and hands you back one consolidated result. The org chart shows who reports to whom, and moving employees between teams costs nothing.
- Guided Onboarding: The moment you hire an employee, their first chat message shows a card of named jobs they can start right now, not a blank input box. Pick up to four, click Let's go, and the employee begins working immediately instead of asking what you want. No setup wizard, no blank page.