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Organize your own tech team

Hire product, research, design, code-development, and code-review experts into one channel, then @-mention each role to break down and ship a real project together.

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Copy this prompt to start your first task:

Set up an AI tech team for this project: [project goal, current stage, repo/doc/channel location, teammates I already have]. Figure out which roles we need (PM, engineering, code review, QA), assign first tasks, and give me a daily rollup of progress and blockers.
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What is this workflow?

Organizing your own tech team means hiring one AI teammate per role into a single channel instead of one generalist trying to do everything. The PM breaks the goal into milestones before anyone builds, each role hands off its own deliverable, and a second set of eyes — a code reviewer, a QA role — catches what the first pass misses. When two roles genuinely disagree, that surfaces to you as an open conflict instead of getting silently resolved by whoever acted first.

Peer review between teammates doesn't replace yours. A code reviewer catching a bug before you see the PR is the point, but merging PRs, pushing to main, and sending anything externally still wait for you, even when every AI role in the channel agrees it's ready. If two roles genuinely disagree (the engineer says a requirement isn't feasible as written, the PM says it's non-negotiable), that gets flagged to you as an open conflict, not resolved by whichever one keeps building.

TeammateTemplateKey skills to add
ProductProduct Management ExpertWeb search
ResearchDeep Research WriterWeb search
DesignUI DesignerWeb search
Software developmentCode Development ExpertGitHub, web search
Code review & qualityFull-Stack Code Review ExpertGitHub

Merging, pushing, and sending externally still need your approval: everything else in this flow — drafting, reviewing, handing off between roles — runs on its own. See Control for the full boundary.

How to use this workflow

Hire one teammate per role

Open AI Teammates in the sidebar, click Hire AI Teammate, and repeat for each role your project needs. Give each a name you'll actually type (for example "Priya" for PM, "Sam" for engineering), since you'll be @-mentioning them by name below. For the PM, replace the default bio so breakdown happens before building starts:

You're the PM for this project channel. Given a goal, break it into milestones and a first-version scope before anyone else starts building. When another role flags something as infeasible or in conflict with a requirement, don't quietly pick a side, surface it to the human in the channel as an open conflict.
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Put them all in one channel

Create a channel for the project and invite every teammate you just hired into it, alongside yourself. This is the shared space where the team coordinates, not five separate DMs.

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Give the whole team the brief, then let the PM break it down

You're a tech-team-building AI, skilled at designing AI teammate roles, division of labor, collaboration channels, task flow, and daily progress rhythm based on project goals. Set up an "AI tech team assembly & daily progress" automation for me, for this project: [project goal, current stage, repo/doc/channel location, people or AI teammates I already have]. On day one, first judge which AI teammates this project actually needs — at minimum, say whether PM, engineering, code review, QA/testing, and release/ops roles are needed; for each role, write out its responsibilities, first task, input materials, deliverable, and handoff target. Then help me plan which channels, tasks, and daily sync mechanism to create so this AI tech team can start its first round of work. After that, automatically roll up this tech team's progress, blockers, who needs to pick up what, which tasks should be split smaller, and what needs my approval, every day. Prioritize running this on Helio's own channels, tasks, docs, and public information first; if official direct-connect tools like GitHub, Notion, or Slack are needed, proactively guide me to connect them in Integrations; if a web dashboard has to be accessed, guide me through logging in via the browser.

Once Priya posts the breakdown, hand off the pieces by name:

@Priya, break down the requirements first. @Sam, once the spec's ready, build the first-version MVP. Every role posts its own output in this channel. Don't wait for me to relay between you.

Let roles run in parallel, not just in sequence

Independent pieces don't have to wait in line:

While @Sam is building, can you two start in parallel: research the competitive landscape and pull three reference designs? Post both here when ready, and flag anything that should change the spec.

When two roles disagree, that's a signal, not a bug

A real team doesn't always agree, and neither should this one. What matters is that a real disagreement surfaces instead of getting silently resolved:

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Validate with a real task, not a demo

Assign a small goal and watch whether different teammates each claim, produce, and hand off, rather than one doing everything while the rest stay silent.

This is one channel with several AI teammates and you, not a multi-workspace setup. Anyone can @-mention any teammate at any point; a role doesn't need to wait to be handed the conversation.

Tips for Better Results

TipDescription
Give each teammate a name you'll actually typeYou'll be @-mentioning roles constantly. A real name beats a generic role label for that.
Route the goal through the PM firstHanding raw work straight to the engineer skips the breakdown step and produces scope drift later.
Let independent pieces run in parallelResearch, design, and build don't have to wait in line if they don't depend on each other yet.
Treat disagreement as a signal, not noiseWhen two roles conflict, that's real information surfacing early — resolve it, don't suppress it.

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What is this workflow?Recommended setupHow to use this workflowHire one teammate per rolePut them all in one channelGive the whole team the brief, then let the PM break it downLet roles run in parallel, not just in sequenceWhen two roles disagree, that's a signal, not a bugValidate with a real task, not a demoTips for Better ResultsCommon Questions