How We Run a 25-person Company on Four AI Agents
by Katie Parrott in Source Code Midjourney/Every illustration. This event was produced in partnership with Notion. They had no input on the development of this article. Want to learn alongside Every’s team? Check out our upcoming camps and courses at every.to/events. Every runs six products, a media company, and a consultancy with around 25 people. At any given moment, each person has roughly 30 tasks on their to-do list. So how do they figure out which to work on first? The team used to rely on Brandon Gell, Every’s COO, to run traffic control and coordinate the whole company, which required him to manually cross-reference launch calendars, company strategy documents, and task lists. Now he messages a Notion agent named Anton in Slack and gets a prioritized list for himself and others in seconds. Anton is one of four custom agents Every has built with help from Notion AI over the past few months. Each one automates a different task that, without the agent, would require tedious logistical work to track and schedule. Each one draws on the same set of interconnected databases that the team already maintains. At our first Custom Agents Camp, produced in partnership with Notion, Brandon and Every head of growth Austin Tedesco, walked more than 500 subscribers through four agents they’ve built, the databases underneath them, and how to create your own. Notion product designer Brian Levin also joined to share best practices from the Notion team. Key takeaways Describe the outcome, not the steps. Tell the AI what you want to accomplish and let it figure out the implementation. Over-prescribing (“Create a database, then add a relation, then filter by...”) tends to confuse the model. Your Notion is your agent’s brain. Custom agents get powerful when they can query interconnected databases. Every’s agents work because strategy, calendar, tasks, people, and meeting notes all live in Notion and reference each other. Don’t write the agent’s instructions yourself. Tell Notion AI what you want the agent to accomplish, and it will generate the instructions. Or use Claude Code with Notion’s API to build the whole thing from your terminal. Become a paid subscriber to Every to unlock this piece and learn about: What each of the four agents does at Every How Every got its OKR process down to two days How to steal Every’s process for building a custom Notion agent Subscribe Click here to read the full post Want the full text of all articles in RSS? Become a subscriber, or learn more.
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