Teams at Work

Once you give a team a goal, the lead splits it up and the specialists get to work. This page shows how to follow along, answer their questions, and collect what they make.

What happens after you give a goal

1. The lead splits the goal and assigns each part to a specialist.
2. Specialists ask the lead when they're stuck, then return their results.
3. The lead reviews the results and combines them into one deliverable.
4. If the goal is too vague, or an agent needs something only you can answer, it asks you in Decisions.
5. Anything that would send, publish or change something outside Starfish waits for your approval in Decisions.

The Work board

The Work tab shows every task in columns: Ready, In progress, Waiting / Blocked, Done, and Cancelled & failed. Filter by agent or kind to focus on one part of the work.

The live conversation

Open any task to read its conversation: who got which part, the questions they asked each other, and what each one found. While the team is working, the conversation updates live, and you can see each step, such as searching the web, reading an app, or building a PDF.

Decisions

The Decisions tab collects everything that needs you. A number on the tab shows how many are waiting.

• Questions come as one short questionnaire per goal. Each question lists options, with the team's Recommended choice marked. Pick one, or type your own answer, then Save answer and the team carries on.
• Approvals show exactly what an agent wants to do and why. Click Approve & run, Reject it (optionally saying why), or Request changes with a note so the agent revises it and brings it back.

When nothing needs you, Decisions says All clear.

The result page

When a task is done, click Open result to read it. The result page shows the summary and the full details.

• Edit — fix or tidy the text yourself. The agent's original is kept, and the result is marked Edited by you.
• Copy — copies the whole result, ready to paste into a doc or email.

A result marked Partial means the team hit its step or budget limit before finishing everything.

Deliverables

The Deliverables tab holds every file your agents build, newest first: reports and other documents, PDFs, web pages and spreadsheets. Filter by team, agent or kind, or search by name.

Click a file to:

• Preview it right in the app.
• Download it.
• Step through its versions when it has been revised.
• Request changes — describe what should change (for example, "shorten the summary to three bullets and add last month's numbers"). The agent gets a new task, and the new version shows up here when it's ready.

To get a file, just ask for one in the task, for example "Make a one-page PDF of last month's results."

Tips

• Check Decisions when a task sits in Waiting / Blocked. It's usually waiting for you.
• Use Request changes on a deliverable instead of starting a new task, so all versions stay together.
• Use Rooms when you want to talk things through with your agents. Use Work when you want a task finished.