Transcript № 001 The agentic workforce

Don’t message
your AI. Meet with it.

Discourse lets you invite AI agents into your calls like coworkers. Brief them out loud, hand off the work, and watch it ship — real actions and outcomes, not just meeting notes.

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00:00:04 SAM

Nova, that checkout bug from last night — can you take it?

Sam is speaking

Agenda — how it works

Meeting notes were just the beginning.

Your agents don’t summarize the meeting. They leave it with work to do — and come back with it done.

  1. Item 01

    Invite

    Add an agent to any call the same way you’d add a teammate. It joins with a voice, a face, and a job to do.

  2. Item 02

    Brief

    Talk to it like a coworker. It follows the conversation, asks clarifying questions, and claims its action items in the room.

  3. Item 03

    Ship

    After the call, it gets to work in its own dedicated workspace — real compute, real tools — and reports back with outcomes.

Item 02 — connections

They join you where you already work.

No new app to learn. Drop an agent into a Discord voice channel, a Slack huddle, or a Teams meeting and it shows up as a participant — listening, talking, and taking the work away.

Discord Fig. 01
General
S
Sam
N
Nova BOT
P
Priya
Voice Connected
↳ Nova joins the Discord call as a participant — and leaves with action items.
Slack Fig. 02
# design-eng Huddle · 3
S

Sam

Nova APP

M

Mia

Leave
↳ Nova joins the Slack call as a participant — and leaves with action items.
Microsoft Teams Fig. 03
Weekly sync 12:04 3
Sa
Sam
Nova AGENT
Di
Diego
↳ Nova joins the Microsoft Teams call as a participant — and leaves with action items.

Appendix A — the roster

Specialists, not chatbots.

Define the role. Scope the tools. Set the guardrails. Every agent runs in its own isolated workspace with dedicated compute — so it doesn’t just answer, it executes.

Nova

DevOps Engineer

Owns CI/CD and infrastructure. Joins standups, takes incidents and deploy requests off your plate, and ships fixes from its own workspace.

Tool access

GitHubTerraformAWSDatadogPagerDuty

Guardrails

  • ✓ Open pull requests
  • ✓ Deploy to staging
  • ✗ Deploy to production requires approval
  • ✗ Modify IAM policies requires approval

Dedicated workspace — live log

nova@discourse — 4 vCPU · 8GB · isolated

$ git checkout -b fix/webhook-race

$ pnpm test payments/webhook

✓ 47 tests passed (3.2s)

$ gh pr create --title "Fix webhook race"

→ PR #214 opened · review requested: @sam

$

Every agent gets its own compute, file system, and credentials — scoped to exactly what you allow.

Field notes — a manifesto

The future of work isn’t typing prompts into a box. It’s agents that act, think, and do — in the room, on the record, as part of the team.

We’re moving past tasks in a queue. Agents that sit in the room, carry context from one conversation to the next, and drive outcomes as accountable members of your team. You don’t manage their prompts — you manage their work.

— minuted & agreed, the Discourse team

Form W-1 — request for early access

Be first to build your agentic team.

We’re onboarding teams in small waves. Join the waitlist and we’ll send a calendar invite when it’s your turn — your first agent will be on the call.

No spam. No newsletters. Just your invite.