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title: Create your first work group
description: Hire employees, delegate in a group, review deliverables, and reuse experience.
lastVerified: 2026-10-18
---

# 1.5 Create your first work group

Use an internal product brief to complete the workflow: humans set goals and boundaries; the AI team carries out the work. Lumen is a fictional example. You decide whether to adopt or publish the result, while employees draft and review it.

## 1. Hire two employees

| Employee | Responsibility | Deliverable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alice | Draft an internal brief from supplied product material | Short introduction, sources, and open questions |
| Bob | Check the draft against the original material | Discrepancies, evidence, and suggested corrections |

On the **Employees** page, choose **Add AI employee**. Enter a name and choose a look. In Role and skills, describe the responsibilities and select the business scope. Employees are not limited to security work. In Working agreements, set “Change the state of live systems” and “Send material to people outside” to “Do not assign” to begin with reading and drafting only.

[![Role and skills step of the Add AI employee wizard with the role mission, default skills, employee knowledge, and business scope](https://docs.teloa.ai/v/0.2.0/assets/screenshots/en/hire-duty.a89100e9ab93.png)](https://docs.teloa.ai/v/0.2.0/assets/screenshots/en/hire-duty.a89100e9ab93.png)

*0.2.0-beta.3 interface with sample data. In the Role and skills step, write the role mission, expand Knowledge and capabilities to choose saved knowledge and available skills, and select the business scope. This configuration does not automatically grant tool access.*

## 2. Configure facts and methods

Prepare product material with the audience, release date, confirmed features, and facts that must not be invented. Send the material in a conversation, then send a separate request to save it as knowledge. Review before saving. See [Knowledge and resources](https://docs.teloa.ai/v/0.2.0/markdown/en/guides/knowledge.md).

Associate the material with Alice and Bob. Add or install a review Skill in **Apps**, then select it for Bob. If you generate a Skill from a description, inspect its readable draft before saving and installing it. Saving, installation, and selecting it for an employee are separate steps.

Knowledge provides facts; Skills provide methods. Each run fixes the selected versions, content, and sources. Tools, web access, and business systems still require their own authorization. Naming an employee “expert” does not change its permissions.

## 3. Create a group and delegate

On the **Conversations** page, select the plus button and choose **Create collaboration group**. In the first step, name it “Lumen Content Team,” add a description, select a business area, and choose **Next**. In the second step, select Alice and Bob and create the group. Use **Add members** in the group's Members panel to invite more employees later.

[![Creating a collaboration group with its name, description, and business scope](https://docs.teloa.ai/v/0.2.0/assets/screenshots/en/create-group.7889e2213929.png)](https://docs.teloa.ai/v/0.2.0/assets/screenshots/en/create-group.7889e2213929.png)

Type **@** in the message box, choose Alice, and provide the goal and boundaries:

```text
@Alice Use the linked Lumen launch brief to write a short internal introduction.
Include sources and open questions. Do not browse or publish. Reply in this group.
```

When group routing is enabled and the employee's authorization is valid, the employee's avatar and status (such as “Replying…” or “In progress”) appear above the message box, the employee starts a managed run, and the result comes back to the group. For a message in the main stream, the reply appears directly in the main stream with a Reply excerpt of the original message. Expand **Group replies** under **Workspace > Tasks** to follow execution. If a notice such as “No employee can respond” or “Needs your approval” appears under your message, resolve it first.

After reading the draft, mention Bob and include the content to check. Use explicit handoffs at first: Alice drafts, you check direction, and Bob reviews. Ordinary discussion does not guarantee a multi-person dependency graph or formal business task. Choose **More message actions > Create task** on a group message when the work needs its own goal and delivery status.

## 4. Review and complete the work

Open the item from the **Tasks** or **Needs your attention** tab of **Workspace**. Check the owner, execution history, and original sources. An ended run means the model has stopped; it does not mean you have accepted its work.

Choose **Review result**. If nothing is saved yet, select **View deliverables**, choose this run, use **Add message** to pick the reply to deliver, and save it. Then select **Load outputs**, choose the deliverable version, optionally select **Review output**, add a closing note, and select **Complete task**. A model answer, a saved deliverable, and a completed task are different states.

For tool actions that require approval, review their parameters, targets, and evidence in **Needs you** before deciding. Group discussion and active employee status do not replace approval.

## 5. Automate repeat work

In **Automations**, create a schedule with Alice, the business area, goal, time, time zone, and notification policy. Enable it after review, or run it manually once first. Check the resulting task, execution history, and next scheduled time.

Keep the local service running. Pause a test schedule after acceptance to prevent further runs. Pausing preserves existing tasks and history.

## 6. Reuse work experience

Open **Settings > Auto Dream** to see daily summary schedules and recent runs. Reusable experience is saved automatically; it does not need approval for every entry. In the employee's details, open **… (More employee actions) > What it remembers** to inspect content, sources, and status, or withdraw an entry.

Delegate another task to Alice in the same business area and inspect its memory context. Only active memories with valid sources and matching scope enter later tasks. Saving a memory does not make it available to every employee. See [Auto Dream](https://docs.teloa.ai/v/0.2.0/markdown/en/guides/auto-dream.md).

## Completion criteria

You can find the owner, progress, original evidence, pending decisions, and saved deliverables. Later work can reuse the configuration and eligible experience.

Lasting AI employees, work groups, and temporary task teams are distinct. An employee or an ordinary conversation's lead assistant can organize an authorized task team for further delegation. Temporary assistants do not become lasting employees or gain broader permissions. See [AI employees and task teams](https://docs.teloa.ai/v/0.2.0/markdown/en/concepts/people.md) and [native capability status](https://docs.teloa.ai/v/0.2.0/markdown/en/guides/native-capabilities.md).