Hire your first worker
In this lesson: hire a real specialist, understand what’s inside a worker, hand it a task, and approve the result.
1. Hire from the catalog
Open the Workers tab → 📚 Browse catalog. There are 90+ pre-designed workers across 82 professions — researchers, writers, coders, marketers, analysts, an Elite tier of historical figures, and more. Pick one that fits a real job you have (say, a Content Writer or a Market Researcher), name it, and place it in the Company you made last lesson.
A hut appears on the Village map. That’s your worker.
2. What’s inside a worker
Open its profile. Every worker is made of:
- A soul — personality, voice, what it cares about. Yours to edit.
- A profession — sets its prompt, the right tools, and trade skills.
- A brain — the AI provider/model it thinks with (per worker).
- An allowlist of tools — least-privilege; a writer never holds the shell.
- Memory — private notes, the company “tribe” memory, and the shared Library.
- A budget & scoreboard — spend caps and live stats.
3. Give it a task
Open a chat with the worker (or ask Theodor to delegate to it) and give a concrete job:
“Draft three subject lines for a launch email to past customers, in our brand voice.”
Watch it work in the right pane.
4. Approve the result
When a worker prepares something you should sign off on, it can submit it for review — it lands in your queue with ✓ Approve / ✕ Reject on the worker’s profile. This is the rule that makes autonomy safe: agents prepare, humans approve. Approve the draft you like.
Recap — you have a workforce
In under an hour you installed a local-first app, met Theodor, hired a specialist, saw what’s inside it, and ran the ask → act → approve loop end-to-end. From here, the curriculum goes deeper: build a real company, give your team knowledge, and let it work while you sleep.
➡️ Next: The full curriculum →