An AI chief of staff, and the team it runs
Once you have handed over more than one job, somebody has to keep them in order, and if that somebody is you, you have swapped doing the work for supervising it. Sanaf is that somebody. It is the Chief of Staff of a team of agents, one per job: you ask it, it hands the work to the agent that knows it, tracks what is waiting on whom, and brings you one answer instead of twenty updates.
Concretely
- Hands each job to the agent on its team that knows it, and waits for the result.
- Keeps track of what is in progress and what is waiting on a person.
- Brings one answer back to your thread, and asks before anything is sent.
- Escalates the issues that need you, and only those.
- Carries work that crosses departments from one agent to the next.
The problem this job exists for
Automation has a second-order cost nobody warns you about. Each thing you hand over is a small win, and then you are the integration layer: checking five outputs, remembering which one is waiting on the accountant, noticing that two of them did the same work. At about the third job, supervising costs more than doing did.
What a chief of staff actually does here
It sits above the other jobs rather than beside them. Every job you hand over becomes an agent on its team, with its own job description, its own logins and its own rules, and every agent reports to Sanaf. When you ask for something, Sanaf works out which agents it needs, hands each its part, waits, and gives you one answer with the things that genuinely need a decision. The rest it handles or holds, and says so. You can see the whole team, and who reports to whom, on the Orgs screen.
One briefing, not a feed
A notification per event is not visibility, it is noise with good intentions. The briefing is written to be read once: what moved, what is stuck, what needs you today, and what it decided not to touch. If nothing needs you, it says that too, which is the part most products cannot bring themselves to do.
How the team gets built
You do not draw it yourself. Describe your business in a sentence and Sanaf proposes a team, one agent per job it thinks you need; keep the ones you want and add more later, on any plan. A new agent reports to Sanaf from the moment it exists, so there is never one working unattended, and adding one costs nothing until it does something, because you pay for the work rather than for the number of agents.
The jobs this comes from
Sanaf holds thirty five written job descriptions. These are the ones behind this page.