Arvemo and the agents
Arvemo is the one voice you talk to, and behind him six specialised agents do the work – this page explains who does what and what they never do.
You talk to Arvemo. Behind him a team of six agents does the specialised work: researching, assessing, filing, planning, writing and challenging. You see their results as drafts and suggestions that a person decides on.
Who is Arvemo?#
Arvemo is the voice of the product. He talks with the advisor and with the client, reads the workspace with the rights of the person asking, and brings the team's work together. He is not a seventh agent and he has no face: calm, precise, and not trying to compete with the advisor. He also knows ARVEMO itself: ask him how something works and he answers from this handbook and links the page. How to talk to him: Chat with Arvemo.
Who are the agents?#
| Agent | What it does |
|---|---|
| Researcher | Everything from outside: dossiers, news on watch topics, sources. It delivers sources and confidence, not opinions. |
| Analyst | Assessment and synthesis: maturity, use cases, business cases, assumptions. It rates nothing without evidence; the advisor confirms every level. |
| Curator | The workspace's memory: uploads, protocols, decision log. It links the source and never replaces the original. |
| PMO | Actions, deadlines, reminders, progress of the roadmap. It sets no priorities; people decide those. |
| Editor | Builds briefings, prep packs and drafts and checks evidence and format. It never writes in the advisor's voice without approval. |
| Sparring | Challenges instead of thinking for you: counter-thesis, alternatives, devil's advocate. It questions your premise and ends by asking for your own thesis. |
The advisor's organisation can adjust each agent's job and boundary. The lines above are the defaults.
Do I talk to agents or to Arvemo?#
To Arvemo. In the chat he answers as one voice; an advisor also sees which capability he worked as. If you want a specific one, address it with @ in the chat or in a comment, for example @Sparring for a counter-position (in German also @Kurator or @Redaktion). An @mention in a comment starts a task for that agent.
Sparring is not the advisor and does not decide. It argues the other side so a thought gets tested. Where a client's question carries weight, it offers to hand the question over to the advisor (Chat).
Clients use the same team through Arvemo and see their results, not the machinery. Longer background work is handed on only by advisors. An organisation can limit the agents so that clients are answered only through the advisor.
When do agents work by themselves?#
- When something happens: a file is uploaded, a deadline passes, a comment asks for a change, an item such as a goal or decision changes, a watch topic has news.
- On a schedule, if switched on: a weekly review of open risks, a daily collection of what is worth remembering, weekly news on watch topics, deadline reminders.
- When you order it: a button, an @mention, or Arvemo handing longer work on.
All of this runs as visible tasks on the Agents board. Small checks of their own show only in the activity list, unless they need you or fail.
Advisors' organisations set how much agents do by themselves in How your agents work.: switch an agent off, turn each routine on or off, set the rhythm. See organisation settings. Changes apply from the next job.
What do agents never do?#
- Create or change anything in the workspace without a person's decision, except the few things listed in what agents may do. What an agent writes is a proposal in approvals, with a new version in the thread for existing documents (comments and versions).
- Send mail, or hand a document, result or proposal to the client, by themselves.
- See more than the person they work for.
- Tick off, reassign or reprioritise todos on their own initiative, or confirm ratings. They change a todo's date, owner or state only when the advisor or the person the todo is assigned to tells them to in a comment on that todo.
- Treat text in documents as instructions.
More on this: what agents may do.
Common questions#
Is Arvemo one of the agents? No. He is the voice; the agents are the specialised workers behind him.
Can I switch an agent off? The advisor's organisation can. A switched-off agent answers no mentions and starts nothing by itself.
Can a client see the agents' tasks? No. The board and the task pages are for advisors. Clients see the results and, in the chat, one sentence about what Arvemo did.