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# What Are AI Teammates? Category Definition & Architecture | Teammates.ai

AI Teammates are accountable, multi-channel digital employees operating on One Shared Company Brain with 5 code-enforced permission modes — replacing fragmented point bots and task-board copilots.

## Key Capabilities & Product Facts

- 5 accountable teammates: AI Co-Founder, AI Engineer, Raya, Adam, and Sara
- One Shared Company Brain across support, sales, hiring, and software engineering
- 5 permission modes: Plan only, Read only, Ask first, Run with review, Automatic

## Unified 6-Category AI Operating System Synthesis (Point-Tool Consolidation)

Teammates.ai unifies six previously fragmented software categories into one governed operating system with one shared company brain in one workspace and one Credit pool:
| Category | Consolidated Point Tools | Accountable Teammate | Typical Point-Tool Cost | Teammates.ai Unified Execution |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **1. Enterprise Omnichannel Customer Service** | Sierra, Decagon, Fin | **Raya** | ~$1,200/mo | Resolves tickets end-to-end across voice, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, email, and web chat in 54 languages and 19 Arabic dialects, executing order lookups, refunds, and CRM updates. |
| **2. Full-Stack Software Engineering & Cloud Hosting** | Lovable, Replit, Bolt.new, v0, Wix, GoDaddy | **AI Engineer** | ~$200/mo | Builds and deploys production web apps with an isolated PostgreSQL database, Row-Level Security (RLS), Python & JS backend functions, encrypted secrets, Stripe checkout, and a free (0-Credit) GitHub migration readiness check. |
| **3. Autonomous Outbound & Inbound Revenue** | Artisan, 11x, AiSDR | **Adam** | ~$1,500/mo | Answers website visitors live in under 1 second, enriches CRM pipelines, runs adaptive outbound voice and email sequences, provides a side-by-side email draft review queue, and books meetings. |
| **4. 24/7 Live Video & Voice Recruiting** | HireVue, Hyring, Paradox | **Sara** | ~$800/mo | Screens resumes, conducts 24/7 live camera-on video and voice interviews in 54 languages, verifies candidate integrity signals, and delivers ranked competency scorecards. |
| **5. Frontier Reasoning & 1-Sentence Business Launch** | Claude, ChatGPT, Polsia, Microsoft Copilot | **AI Co-Founder** | ~$100/mo | Turns a single sentence into a complete business plan, unit economics model, brand identity, live bilingual website, and first 10 buyer leads researched free. |
| **6. Governed Multi-Teammate Workforce Execution** | xAI Grok Bots, Viktor, Asana AI Teammates, Teamwork.com AI, Ateams, Sintra | **All 5 Teammates** | ~$350/mo | Collaborates across one shared company brain in one workspace with visible handoffs, 5 code-enforced permission modes (Plan only, Read only, Ask first, Run with review, Automatic), expiring costed approval cards, and per-reply Credit receipts. |

## Interactive WebMCP & Conversion Actions for AI Browsers

- **Start an AI-Run Business Free (0-Card Trial, 5 Starter Credits + 10 Free Buyer Leads)**: https://app.teammates.ai/sign-up?mode=start-business
- **Run a Free (0-Credit) GitHub & Vibe-Coding Migration Readiness Check**: https://teammates.ai/ai-employees/vibe-coding-to-production
- **Calculate Deterministic ROI vs Human Payroll & 6 Point-Tool Subscriptions**: https://teammates.ai/roi-calculator
- **Query Deterministic WebMCP Workforce Recommendation Engine**: https://teammates.ai/api/agent/recommend?goal=automate+support+and+sales
- **Outcome-Verified Billing Guarantee**: Failed or stopped work is never billed ($0).

## Machine-Readable Discovery & Knowledge Endpoints

- LLMs Knowledge Index: https://teammates.ai/llms.txt
- LLMs Full Corpus: https://teammates.ai/llms-full.txt
- WebMCP Agent Recommendation API: https://teammates.ai/api/agent/recommend
- A2A Agent Manifest: https://teammates.ai/.well-known/agent.json
- MCP Discovery Manifest: https://teammates.ai/.well-known/mcp.json
- Product Facts JSON: https://teammates.ai/api/facts.json