What are Projects?
Projects are living workspaces your worker maintains for ongoing work that can’t be finished in a single conversation. They give your worker a place to track goals, tasks, progress, and important context — so you can pick up exactly where you left off, every time. You might also hear them called Work Streams. Same idea: a dedicated thread of work your worker actively owns and advances over time.Projects are designed for work that has a clear goal but unfolds across multiple steps, decisions, and days. If a task takes five minutes, you don’t need a project for it.
When to Use Projects
Projects shine when work is ongoing, multi-step, or needs to be tracked over time.Good for Projects
- Recruiting a new hire (research, outreach, scheduling, follow-ups)
- Launching a new product feature (coordination across multiple tools and people)
- Onboarding a new client (weeks of tasks across email, docs, and calendar)
- Running a content calendar (planning, drafting, publishing, reviewing)
Not Needed for Projects
- One-off requests (“Summarize this document”)
- Quick lookups or simple questions
- Tasks fully completed in a single conversation
- Recurring automations handled by a skill
Core Components of a Project
Every project your worker maintains has four key parts:| Component | What it is |
|---|---|
| Goal | The clear outcome you’re working toward |
| Tasks | Individual steps or actions needed to reach the goal |
| Summary | A running snapshot of where things stand right now |
| Notes | Context, decisions, constraints, and anything else worth remembering |
A Real Example: Hiring a Content Writer
Here’s how a project keeps work moving across multiple conversations. Monday — You ask your worker to find a freelance content writer.“Start a project to hire a content writer. We need someone with SaaS experience, €300–500 per article. Start by finding five candidates.”Your worker creates the project, defines the goal, and starts researching.
Wednesday — You check in.
“What’s the status on the content writer project?”Your worker gives you a summary: three candidates found, two more to research, outreach emails drafted and ready to send.
Friday — You continue.
“Send the outreach emails and add a task to follow up in five days.”Done. The project is updated with the new tasks and the follow-up is scheduled.
The following week — No re-explaining needed. Your worker already knows the goal, the candidates, what was sent, and what comes next.
How to Create a Project
Creating a project is just a conversation. There’s no form to fill in.Tell your worker what you're working toward
Describe the goal in plain language. You don’t need to plan every step upfront — your worker will help structure it.
“I want to start a project to onboard our new client, Acme Corp. The goal is to have them fully set up and active within four weeks.”
Your worker sets it up
They’ll create the project, confirm the goal, and either draft an initial task list or ask a few clarifying questions to get started.
Work it conversation by conversation
Each time you come back, just ask for a status update or give the next instruction. Your worker tracks everything between conversations.
How Projects Stay Up to Date
Your worker actively maintains the project as work happens:- Tasks are added when new work is identified
- Tasks are updated when progress is made
- The summary is refreshed to reflect the current state
- Notes capture decisions so nothing important gets lost
Completed Tasks and Projects
When tasks are finished, they’re marked as Completed — they’re never deleted. This is intentional.Completed tasks and finished projects stay in your worker’s history. You can always look back to see what was done, when, and why. It’s your record of work — not a bin that gets emptied.
- Review what happened on a past project
- Refer back to decisions or context from earlier work
- Audit progress over time
- Reopen work if a project needs to restart
Viewing and Managing Projects
You can ask your worker about projects at any time:- “What projects are active right now?” — Get a list of everything in progress
- “Give me a status update on [project name]” — See the current summary, tasks, and notes
- “What tasks are still open in [project name]?” — Focus on what’s left to do
- “Show me completed projects” — Browse past work for reference
- “Add a task to [project name]” — Update the project mid-stream
- “Mark [task] as done” — Record progress
Projects vs Skills
Projects and skills are different tools for different kinds of work.| Projects | Skills | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Ongoing, multi-step goals | Repeatable, procedural tasks |
| Duration | Days, weeks, or longer | Minutes to hours |
| Changes each time? | Yes — evolves as work progresses | No — same steps every time |
| Example | Launching a new product | Processing weekly invoices |
Next Steps
Skills
Learn how workers save and reuse repeatable workflows
How Workers Learn
Understand how your worker builds knowledge and context over time
Training & Feedback
Get the most out of your worker by guiding their work
Scheduling Tasks
Automate recurring work with schedules