Stop Building AI Agents. Start Building AI Employees (Live Demo) | Pedro Franceschi
How to think of building agents as onboarding AI employees with a specific job, skill set, manager, and budget. Plus how Brex’s CEO uses AI to run his life and $5B business.

TL;DR
- Build AI employees, not AI agents, by giving them a job, skills, a manager, and a budget.
- AI employees should have one clear outcome to own.
- AI employees need specific instructions and constraints as skills.
- AI employees should escalate to a human manager if a task is unclear.
- AI employees should spend tokens based on the worth of the outcome.
- Jim, Brex's AI recruiter, is an example of an AI employee that helps source and filter job candidates.
- Brex's AI recruiter can access Greenhouse and LinkedIn.
- Pedro Franceschi uses OpenClaw to manage his $5B business and life.
- CrabTrap is mentioned as a method to prevent AI employees from leaking data.
- The 'tokenmaxxing bill' is mentioned as a coming concern that needs control.