The agent and skill model
Agents, skills, and triggers in plain words: three simple parts that snap together to automate real work.
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Picture a kitchen. Team Brain automates your work with three parts that fit together just like one. Once you see the kitchen, you have the whole idea.
The three parts
- Agents are the cooks. Each one does a job: enrich a lead, draft an email, sort an inbox. A small, reliable worker that reads your data and writes the result back.
- Skills are the shared tools. The knives and pans anyone can grab. A skill is a reusable ability, like "look up a company." Make it once, and every cook and every teammate can use it.
- Triggers are the order tickets. They tell a cook to start. A ticket can be a time of day, a new row in a database, an incoming email, or a ping from another app.
How they snap together
A ticket comes in. A cook picks it up, grabs the shared tools it needs, and plates the result. That is an automation. Chain a few cooks and you have run a whole process, with no one moving plates by hand.
They all share one kitchen: your workspace. The same docs, databases, and files your team already uses. No exporting, no syncing, no copy that drifts out of date. When a cook looks something up, it reads the exact row your team is looking at right now.
Build once, reuse everywhere
This is the payoff. A skill is shared, not copied. Sharpen the knife once and every cook gets the sharper blade. Your first automation takes real effort. The second is faster, because half the tools already hang on the wall. See this in action when you automate your CRM with AI agents, or browse more in our use cases.
The takeaway: cooks, shared tools, and order tickets. Three simple parts, one kitchen, work that runs itself.
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