Approve first or Autonomous

One switch decides how your AI team works. Open AI Team (the card at the top of the Team tab) or Chief, then Control, then Autonomy. Pick Approve first or Autonomous, tick the AI employees that may work on their own, and save. Only an owner or admin can change it; everyone else on staff can read it.

• Approve first (the default)Your AI team suggests and a person approves everything before it happens. Every workspace starts here, and switching back to it is immediate: nothing runs without your approval from that moment.
• AutonomousThe AI employees you tick do small, safe jobs without a click: sorting and tidying, creating tasks and reminders and logging activity notes. Every one of these can be undone, and there is an hourly limit. Drafts are still shown to a person.
• What is never automatic, in either modeMoney, payroll, people and permissions, deleting, signing and legal documents always wait for a person. So do messages to outside people, with one exception you choose yourself: short emails inside limits you set (see Emails without a click).
• The two-owner ruleIf your workspace has two or more owners or admins, switching to Autonomous waits for a second one to approve it. They find it in Chief, then Control, then the Protection tab. Until they approve, the workspace stays on Approve first.
• An AI employee needs a role firstOnly AI employees that have a job role can be ticked. Set the role on the employee’s own page, under Identity & access. An employee without a role can still suggest work, but never acts by itself.
• Limits, pause and undoFine tune on the AI Team Settings tab sets the most jobs per hour. Pause all agents there stops everything at once, in either mode. Anything an AI employee did by itself can be undone from its activity.
• Approved work is carried out for youWhen a person approves a small job, the server now carries it out within a few minutes, even if the browser was closed. If it cannot be carried out, it is closed as not carried out after a day, so nothing sits half done for ever.

Chief asks, it never decides. Every workspace starts on Approve first. Owners and admins get a short reminder from Chief, at most once every two weeks, that the choice exists: once when the workspace has an AI team, and again when you have approved five or more jobs in a week. The reminder only links to the card. You can switch that reminder off in your notification settings.