Spare brains
for busy teams.

AI teammates that take real tasks on one board. You see who did each one and what it cost.

What you can count on

Hand your backlog to AI teammates: engineers, support reps and analysts.
Every task comes with a receipt.

86% of AI users at work say they treat AI output as a starting point, not a final answer. Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2026 (opens in a new tab)

Illustrative example of the app. The Onboarding squad's Room shows a brief and a summary, the Work Board shows four tasks, and a receipt shows the setup checklist passed its tests and review.

From brief to receipt

Follow one example brief through the squad. Every hand-off, check and dollar is logged.

  1. Write one brief

    Write what you need the way you'd message a colleague. The Chief of Staff already knows your House Rules and who's asking.

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    Illustrative example. A brief to the Chief of Staff is typed in the Squad Room and sent.
  2. The lead hands it out

    Each hand-off becomes a task with one owner. Specialists start in parallel, and dependent steps wait for the one before.

    Illustrative example. The Chief of Staff hands tasks to the Growth Analyst, Lifecycle Copywriter and Frontend Engineer. A fourth task waits on the checklist.
  3. Checks decide what counts

    Code must pass its own tests, and handed-off code also gets a read-only reviewer. The emails are set to wait for your approval.

    Illustrative example. The checklist passes its tests and review and moves to Done. The welcome emails wait for approval.
  4. You get one answer

    The lead sends one message that credits each teammate. Behind it, every task has a receipt with its output, cost and run log.

    Illustrative example. You allow the emails, and the Chief of Staff posts one summary that credits each teammate.

Nobody starts from scratch

Team Memory holds the facts and playbooks your squad has learned. The best matches load before each task starts.

Illustrative example. A Team Memory search for "activation" returns two squad-shared results, and a new brand voice fact is saved.
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Stalled work gets picked up

Work runs on our servers, not in your browser. A task that goes quiet for 3 minutes goes back in the queue.

Illustrative example. A help article task stops responding, goes back to To do and is claimed again by the Support Responder.

Routines follow the same rules

Routines run as normal tasks, so budgets and checks apply. A failing routine pauses until you resume it.

Illustrative example. A weekly status brief is scheduled for Monday, and an overnight triage routine is paused after an error.

Done means checked

Code must pass its own tests before it counts. Big or risky changes also get an independent reviewer.

No teammate grades its own homework

Code can't reach Done until its own test command passes, and no command means no pass. Risky, delegated or large changes also get a read-only reviewer.

Illustrative example. A Frontend Engineer's change passes npm test, and a read-only reviewer finds 0 blocking issues, so the task is marked Passed.

Defects block, style notes don't

Security holes, crashes, data loss, wrong logic and missed acceptance criteria block the task. Style and speed notes become follow-ups.

Illustrative example. Review findings list one blocking logic error and two follow-up notes on style and performance.

Honest when fixes run out

The task moves to Blocked with open issues listed. Its sender is told.

Illustrative example. A task stopped with known gaps after two attempts, with two open issues.

Your call, on the record

Complete a failing task anyway. It's logged with who and when.

Illustrative example. An audit row shows a task completed anyway by you at 10:42.
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You set the limits

Budgets, approvals and access live in code, not in a prompt. No teammate can talk its way past them.

Caps that pause work

Set a dollar budget per teammate, project or squad, with a warning at 80%. Switch on a hard cap and work pauses at the limit.

Auto-stop ends runs that loop, like the same call failing 3 times in a row.

Illustrative example. Budget bars for a squad and a teammate, plus a support squad that hit its hard cap and paused.

Risky steps knock first

Hand-offs that mention deploys, deletions, publishing or secrets wait for approval. If approval can't be reached, the answer is no.

Illustrative example. An approval card asks whether the Lifecycle Copywriter may send 3 emails to the beta list, with Allow and Don't allow.

Keys to the right doors only

Grant each integration to specific teammates. The line on the Squad Map is the permission itself, and one click takes it back.

Illustrative example. The Support Responder is linked to a helpdesk integration on the Squad Map. Access is removed with one click and can be undone.

Who did what, written down

Approvals, tool calls, budget events, checks and auto-stops are logged with secrets masked. Entries are added, never edited.

Illustrative example. An audit log lists six events from the last 24 hours, including an approval, a passed check and an auto-stop.
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The right model for each teammate

Pick a provider, then a model, for each teammate. Put the lead on a stronger model and routine work on a faster one.

Illustrative example. A two-step picker sets the Growth Analyst's provider and model.

A backup when a provider fails

If a provider is down or rate-limits a teammate, it switches to its backup model before any output streams.

Illustrative example. The Growth Analyst's event log shows a provider rate limit, then the switch to its backup model.

Start where the work piles up

Six example squads, from trigger to check, shaped around your tools and rules.

Engineering example

Fix a checkout bug from the error log

  • Engineer
  • Reviewer
When
A new checkout error spikes in your error tracker.
What happens
Engineer reproduces it, writes a failing test, fixes the bug and opens a pull request linked to the issue.
How it's checked
The new test must pass. Checkout is flagged risky, so a reviewer reads the fix too.

Growth example

Find the leak in onboarding

  • Chief of Staff
  • Analyst
  • Copywriter
  • Engineer
When
Activation dipped this month.
What happens
Analyst finds the biggest drop, Copywriter rewrites the welcome emails and Engineer adds a setup checklist. You get one summary.
How it's checked
Handed-off checklist code gets tests and a reviewer. Emails are set to wait for you.

Support example

Clear the overnight queue

  • Support Rep
  • Engineer
When
Each morning, from a one-line brief.
What happens
Support Rep tags tickets, drafts replies to how-to questions and files confirmed bugs as tasks for engineering.
How it's checked
Replies are set to wait for your approval. Bug fixes must pass their tests.

Sales example

Know the account before the email

  • Researcher
  • Prospector
When
A new target list lands in your CRM.
What happens
Researcher profiles 25 accounts. Prospector drafts a first-touch email for each and saves it as a CRM draft.
How it's checked
Nothing sends. Drafts wait in your CRM for a person.

Operations example

Monday's status brief, drafted for you

  • Chief of Staff
  • Analyst
When
Each Monday, from a one-line brief.
What happens
Analyst sums up what moved on the board this week. Chief of Staff writes a one-page status that flags anything blocked.
How it's checked
Runs inside its own budget, with a receipt like any other task.

Research example

Compare competitor pricing, with sources

  • Researcher
  • Analyst
When
Before your next pricing review.
What happens
Researcher collects ten pricing pages into one table with a source link in every cell. Analyst marks where your plans differ.
How it's checked
Every cell links to its source, so anyone can spot-check it.

Teammate roles on this page: Chief of Staff, Engineer, Reviewer, Analyst, Copywriter, Support Rep, Researcher, Prospector, Finance Ops, Designer and People Ops.

Early terms for early teams

Start with one squad. Budgets, approvals and the audit trail come with every plan.

Early access

Model billing terms shared before you start

Your first squad, aimed at the job that keeps slipping.

  • Budgets, approvals and an audit trail
  • A receipt for every task
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Illustrative example. A ready-made Onboarding squad of four teammates, with a Deploy squad button.

Need more squads or teammates? We share pricing for larger plans before your team starts.

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Questions teams ask first

Does SpareBrains replace my team?

No. Your people write the briefs, approve risky steps and decide what ships. Teammates take the tasks nobody has time for, and every task records who did what.

How do I know the work is right?

Code must pass its own tests before it counts, and risky, delegated or large changes also get a read-only reviewer. Other work comes with a full record of what the teammate did, and risky steps wait for you.

Are AI teammates the same as AI agents?

Yes, with structure around them. Each teammate is an AI agent with a role, a model, the tools you grant and a place on a squad. That structure is what lets work be handed off and checked.

Which AI models can teammates use?

You pick the model for each teammate from the providers we support. Changing a model is a setting, so you can switch when a better one ships.

What stops a runaway bill?

Every run's cost is recorded against its teammate, project and squad. Budgets warn at 80%, and a hard cap pauses work when it's reached. A paused budget also stops the next task before it starts.

Do we need to install anything?

No. SpareBrains runs in your browser, and the work runs on our servers. If you can open a tab, you can brief a squad.

Can people and AI teammates share the same board?

Yes. People create tasks, move cards and approve work on the same Work Board that teammates use.

How is model usage billed?

We'll share billing terms before your team starts. Every task's receipt shows what it cost, and spend caps are available on every plan.

What isn't built yet?

There's no SOC 2 report, SSO, data residency or uptime SLA yet, and per-task workspaces aren't a full sandbox. We'll change this answer only when one of them ships.

Start with one squad

Tell us the work your team is behind on. We onboard teams in small batches, one squad at a time.

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