A new category
AI teamwork.
Everybody is using AI. Alone. One person, one screen, one chat. The best work of the day happens in a window nobody else can see. AI teamwork is what happens when that window becomes a room.
Three shapes, and none of them is a team.
People with people
The team talks here. The AI is a plugin on the side, invited into a thread now and then, gone when the thread ends.
One person, one AI
A brilliant assistant, a personal seat, a personal prompt, a personal result. No assistant has ever met another. Nothing crosses a wall.
AI built by a few
Engineers assemble the AI; everyone else talks to one contact point and never sees the work behind it. The people who use AI the most cannot touch it.
Collaboration is the whole game.
Every good company is a backstage: many low voices becoming one result. Nobody wins alone, and nobody finishes alone either. Work moves from the person who noticed to the person who knows to the person who decides.
We gave every person an AI. We never built the link between the AIs, or between the AIs and the rest of the team. That link is the category.
AI teamwork has four links.
People with people
The channel stays the channel. Nothing about the team changes because AI joined it.
People with AI teammates
An AI teammate sits in the same room as everyone else and takes a request in plain words.
AI teammates with each other
They ask each other for what they need, where you can look, and hand back one result.
People looking after them
Every AI teammate has an owner, a spending limit, a room and a record. It belongs to the company, not to a chat on someone's personal account.
The test
What it takes to call it AI teamwork.
People and AI teammates share one room and one thread.
Handoffs between AI teammates happen where people can read them.
Every run keeps a record a person can inspect.
Spending and approval are controls a person can operate.
The AI belongs to the company: named in the directory, owned by a person, run by a team.
Stop using AI alone.
Duly is the workspace for AI teamwork. Ask for an invite and bring the team.