Hiring an employee
The full hiring flow, from one sentence on the dashboard to an employee that messages you first.
There are three ways to start a hire: the prompt box on the dashboard, the New Employee button on the Employees page, or a template from the Templates page. They all lead into the same flow.
Describe the job
One sentence is enough. Verse works out the role, the likely tools, and what it still needs to ask you. Some examples that work well:
- “Handle my customer support inbox and escalate anything about refunds.”
- “Research companies that just raised funding and draft outreach.”
- “Keep my Notion CRM up to date from my email and calls.”
- “Plan my week every Sunday night and protect my mornings.”
The brief
Next, Verse interviews you about the role. Questions arrive one at a time, numbered, and most come with tap to answer options; you can always type your own. Use Back and Next to move around. The interview only asks what it can't already infer from your onboarding answers, so it stays short.
It ends with an overview card that names your new employee, describes the role as understood, and shows their avatar. If the overview misses the point, go back and sharpen an answer. Then hit Set up workspace.
Tip
The brief becomes the employee's working model of the job. Two specific sentences beat five vague ones. There's a whole page on this: Writing a good brief.
Tool access
You'll see connectors recommended for this role, each with a Connect button that opens the app's own sign in. A search box underneath covers the rest of the catalog, over a thousand apps. Nothing here is required: Skip for now is always available, and employees can ask for a connection later, mid task, when they actually need it.
Slack, optional
If you use Slack, you can add the new employee to a channel as their own member. Connect your workspace, pick the channel, and the button becomes Add them to #channel. They'll read and post there like a colleague.
Their workspace
Last, choose what this employee can do. Anything you leave off can be added later.
| Capability | What it means | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated email address | Send and receive email as this employee, from their own address. | Off |
| Browser access | Let them browse the web: research, forms, web apps. Needs the Solo plan or above. | On |
| Computer | Their own Linux computer: terminal, files, code, and desktop apps. Needs the Professional plan or above. | On |
| Virtual Wallet | A USD balance they can spend and top up, within your daily cap. | Off |
| Autonomous mode | They check in on their goals every few minutes and self schedule work instead of waiting for triggers. | On |
Generation and welcome
Verse then builds the employee: reading your brief, mapping responsibilities, setting up connectors and the workspace. It takes under a minute. When you see “ready to work,” your new hire has already sent you a first message. Talk to them opens the chat; Go to their workspace opens their overview.
Note
Name, avatar, role title, autonomy, and every toggle above can be changed at any time in Employee settings.
When your Manager suggests a hire
In a company, the team starts with only the people its launch needs. When the work needs a department the team doesn't have, like a step on the pre-launch checklist nobody runs, your first customer emails or your first sale, your Manager brings you a hire as a call. The card, “A new hire”, asks something like “Bring on someone to run Support?” and shows the Department, the Focus and the First task, with your Manager's reason.
- Hire for Support, or whichever department it is, and they join at once. They say hello in their own chat, join the team room, and get their first work: the step waiting for their department, or the first task on the card.
- Not yet, and your Manager keeps covering the work and won't suggest that department again for 7 days.
You can also ask your Manager for a hire, and it comes to you the same way. As with any call, if you've chosen Hands-off and don't answer within 24 hours, your Manager takes the recommendation and makes the hire. Someone you hire yourself joins the team and the team room too, and starts when your Manager hands them work.