@Maker dig up the 2024 pricing debate in Slack and write it up in Notion.
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Written up in Notion · 2 pages
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Whatever your team runs on, your teammates run with it
They sign in themselves and carry one job from app to app until it is finished.
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What a teammate does
It signs in. It runs on time. It finishes the work
Follow-ups get chased, records stay current, meetings and projects keep moving. You do not have to remember any of it.
Takes any job you describe
Talk like you would to a new hire.
Chase unpaid invoices every weekday at 9.
Send ↵
Signs into your tools
Its own browser. Your limits.
httpsaccounts.google.com/signin
Continue with Google
Runs on your schedule
Laptop shut. Work still starts.
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Runs a whole workflow
Not a single prompt — a process.
→→→
Answers anything you ask
One-off questions, ranked.
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Brings back finished work
In your inbox at 7:00 AM.
Overdue invoices · 7
7:00 AM
What comes with every teammate
Your chief of staff sets all of this up with you
Ready on day one, no setup from you.
Under your supervision
They work with your access, inside your limits, on the record
You decide what they can reach and what needs a yes from you. Every step is logged.
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Approvals
A teammate can do the research, run the numbers, and write the message. Sending it to a customer, a vendor, or your team is your call — and you can cap how much goes out in a day.
Nothing reaches a customer without you.
Mail · refund
BlockedWhat it found
Seats used dropped from 40 to 23 since March. The renewal quote still assumes 40.
To: accounts@northgate.io·Re: 2027 renewal quote
Thanks for the quote. Our seat count has been 23 since March, so we would like the plan resized before we renew. Happy to sign this week at the smaller tier.
Approve and sendEdit2 more waiting
Daily send cap18 / 40
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Secret vault
Add a password or an API key once. A teammate reads it from the vault when a job needs it, so nothing sensitive sits in a thread you would have to go back and delete.
Read at run time. Never shown in a thread.
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY
•••••••• · read by Clerk · 9:04 AM
SMTP_APP_PASSWORD
•••••••• · read by Mail · 7:12 AM
FINANCE_SHEET_TOKEN
•••••••• · read by Clerk · 9:04 AM
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Connection scopes
Every connected account carries a scope. Give one teammate read-only access to your books and another the right to send, and leave the rest with no access at all.
Scope is per teammate, not shared.
Stripe
Read only
Clerk
Gmail
Read + send
Slack
No access
Maker
Notion
Read + write
Maker
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Receipts
Every call through your connections is written down — who, which tool, when. You can read the log the same morning.
The record is the product.
9:04 AM
Listed 7 overdue invoices
Clerk
9:05 AM
Opened draft to Hartley
Clerk
7:12 AM
Sorted 31 overnight messages
7:18 AM
Posted summary in Studio chat
6:41 AM
Filed welcome pack page
Maker
What they can do for you
Real jobs, on a schedule, running in the background
If you can explain the job to a new hire, you can hand it to a teammate.
Invoice chaser
Weekdays at 9:00 AM
Inbox triage
Weekdays at 7:00 AM
Weekly report
Mondays at 7:00 AM
Customer support
Continuous
Meeting notes
On every call
Competitor watch
Mondays at 7:00 AM
Release QA
On every deploy
Cold outreach
Weekdays at 8:00 AM
Shared context
A shared memory from every conversation and every app you use
One sentence is enough. They already know who you mean, where the thing lives, and what you decided last time.
You said
Send the plan to Ayush.
People
Ayush · head of growth
The person you mean. Not a new contact.
Conversations
The announcement plan
You wrote it Tuesday. Details attached.
Tools
Notion · edited 2h ago
The live doc, not last month’s export.
Memory
Same company, new name
The old name and the new one are one firm.
Linking people, tools, and last time’s call…
“I run a portfolio of internet businesses. Octopus is the chief of staff for all of them — the operating layer. It runs support, chases the money, announces every ship, and keeps the whole thing working while I sleep.”
Jimmy Harika
Founder, jstack
Support
Saves 10+ hours a week
Mail checks the newest tickets on a schedule. Straightforward ones go out. Technical ones become a mission with an owner. That’s a support hire I don’t make.
Chargebacks
From a pile to a tap
Clerk pulls the Stripe proof, writes the evidence, and waits in Needs you. I tap yes. The dispute goes out. The money that used to vanish, doesn’t.
Launch
Every ship
Maker picks the most useful thing we shipped that week and writes the announcement. I wake up to a draft, not a blank page.
Growth
Runs while I sleep
Watch and Chief keep the overnight board moving across the portfolio. The systems still run when the laptop is shut.
One day with Octopus
What your day looks like with teammates
Stripe, Gmail, and your calendar are connected. You ask for things through the day the way you would with any team, and the work comes back finished.
Morning
8:40 AM
You
Y
You
Chase unpaid invoices, clear my inbox, get Monday’s numbers ready.
Three jobs: Clerk, Mail, Maker.
You asked
9:00 AM
Clerk
C
Clerk
Clerk chases the money
Pulls seven overdue invoices from Stripe and writes a reminder for each.
10:20 AM
Clerk
C
Clerk
Drafts arrive for approval
Approve all seven, or edit the two you want softer. You tap approve on the train.
In your inbox
11:15 AM
MMail
Mail clears the inbox
Sorts 31 emails, answers the four routine ones, flags the supplier.
11:50 AM
You
Y
You
Did we ever cancel that Figma seat?
Still active. $180 a year.
You tapped yes
Afternoon
1:30 PM
Maker
M
Maker
Maker sits in your 1:30
Joins the client call, writes it up, files three actions with owners.
2:40 PM
You
Y
You
Why did three orders fail yesterday?
Watch: looking now.
Sent between meetings
4:05 PM
Watch
W
Watch
Watch screens the quotes
Reads the week’s four landscaper bids and shortlists two.
5:20 PM
Chief
C
Chief
One end-of-day digest
Four candidates shortlisted. The three orders failed on one expired card.
In your inbox
6:10 PM
You
Y
You
Remind me if Bell & Rowe still hasn’t paid.
Clerk: set for 7:30 tomorrow. Shut the laptop.
You asked
Overnight
6:50 PM
MMail
Mail builds Monday’s numbers
Revenue, refunds and ad spend in the same one-page weekly report.
7:30 AM
You
Y
You
Bell & Rowe still unpaid, 26 days. Under it: everything else, already finished.
Next day
12
jobs finished
4
teammates on it
2
taps to approve
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