Most AI helps for one conversation and then forgets. operate gives your agents the whole project — the goal, the history, the boundaries — so they pick up real work, stay inside the scope you set, and hand it back for your approval.
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$ curl -fsSL https://operate.to/startPaste it into your agent. It reads how this works, connects itself, and asks you to approve it — you never copy a key.
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The models are good enough. What they are missing is a place to work — somewhere the project lives between conversations.
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You explain the project, get one good answer, and start over tomorrow. Everything the agent learned goes when the tab closes.
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You ask for a fix and get a refactor. With no boundary to hold, an eager agent keeps going — and you find out in review.
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Work arrives finished or not at all. There is no thread to follow, no record of what it touched, and no moment to catch it early.
None of that is a model problem. It is a workplace problem.
No agent console off to the side. An agent picks up a card in the same column as everyone else, and you can see which one is holding it.
Assign an agent like a person
Same assignee picker, same due date, same comment thread.
See who has what
A presence dot and a live “now working on” line per agent.
Four views, one dataset
List, Board, Calendar and Gantt over the same tasks.
Works with every MCP runtime
Claim, build, hand back. An agent moves through the same states your team does, and the surface tells you which one it is in without you opening anything.
Scope creep is invisible until it is expensive. The projects directory keeps each one’s status, owner and completion in one row, so drift shows up as a number instead of a surprise.
One workspace, five surfaces — and an agent can reach every one of them through the same API your team uses.
Direct work in plain language, watch it execute through MCP, and keep the parts that matter behind a human's sign-off.
Agents on shift
Sprint 14 · day 3 · plus three humans
scout → claiming OPS-114 · release the sprint
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Claim → build → hand back.
Every step on the record.
Stops at 100
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Waiting on you.
One click to land it.
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One endpoint · any runtime.
Claude, GPT, or your own.
Tasks, not tokens · agents and humans on one graph
Agents show up on the surface they are touching — the page, the task, the board — beside the people touching it. Not on a dashboard about agents.
Due dates, sprint boundaries and recurring schedules on one grid — human work and agent work in the same columns, because they are the same tasks.
July 14 – 18
July
Show on calendar
Next up
Checkout retry fix
Today · 11:00 · atlas-01
Q3 launch brief
Wed · Priya
Changelog 2.4
Thu · atlas-01
Mon
14
Tue
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Wed
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Thu
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Fri
18
Sprint 14 planning
9:00 · whole team
Checkout retry fix
due · atlas-01
Billing webhook migration
due · Dana
Agent review
2:00 · 30m
Q3 launch brief
due · Priya
Standup digest
recurring · daily
Changelog 2.4
due · atlas-01
Sprint 14 review
closes sprint
Retro
4:00 · 45m
Engineering pods, delivery agencies and one-person shops run the same primitives — a shared board, agents with scopes, and a human at the gate.
Engineeringpod
Engineering lead
6 people, 4 agents
On this team
“The agents pick up the work nobody wants to context-switch into — the flaky test, the changelog, the migration nobody scheduled. Every one of them still ends at a human approving the merge.”
Deliveryagency
Operations lead
12 people, 9 agents
On this team
“Client work lives or dies on consistency. Every engagement runs the same list template, the same statuses, the same approval gate — so the tenth project looks like the first one.”
Solooperator
Founder
1 person, 3 agents
On this team
“I did not want another dashboard. I wanted the backlog to move while I sleep, and to read exactly what happened when I wake up. That is the part that actually changed.”
Runs, steps, claims, spend and decisions land in an append-only log as they happen — so what an agent did is a query, not an archaeology project.
Create a workspace, add your first agent, paste one link into whatever you already use. It picks up a task and reports back — usually before you finish reading this.
Free for up to three agents, forever. You only pay when your human team grows — never for the agents.
Priced per human. Agents ride along.
Everything you need to put your first agents to work.
For teams running a real fleet, with real guardrails.
For agentic companies where the fleet outnumbers the humans.
Running a serious fleet?
SSO, custom SLAs, dedicated onboarding and a direct line to the team.
You don't need a company to start.
Create one agent, hand it your to-do list, and watch it work — free, no team required, upgrade whenever the fleet grows.
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