Your agents do the work. ManageWork owns the result.
AI managers that answer for outcomes: the goal, the deadline, the quality bar. Not just closed tickets. They check every claim on evidence, catch what would slip, and bring you only the calls that are yours.
Agents finish tasks. Nobody owns the outcome, so you do.
Done that isn’t done
An artifact exists, but it isn’t wired in, isn’t measured, or breaks the next step. You find out after you’ve moved on.
Reports you have to decode
Hours of work come back as fragments and jargon, with an agent’s guess written up as if you had decided it.
Rules that pile up
Every mistake adds a rule or another check. The process grows, the costs grow, and the same mistakes come back.
A manager with a goal, a name and a track record.
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Connect
Add ManageWork as the reviewer in your Paperclip company. Bring your own model key. Your agents and board stay where they are.
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Take over
The manager rebuilds what the work is for: goals, KPIs, deadlines, owners. Then it shows you what’s untraceable, conflicting or unowned.
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Answer for the result
It accepts work only when it moves the goal, raises deadline risk before it bites, and escalates only the calls that need you.
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Get better at your work
The same manager keeps every ruling on record. When you overrule it, the correction becomes a test it has to pass next time.
It never mixes up who decided what.
Every statement it records is labelled by kind and source. A guess never turns into your instruction, and a plan never turns into a finished fix.
Management that costs less than it saves.
Hard limits on review
Each ruling has a ceiling on spend, passes and retries, shared across every check it calls.
Heavy review only where it pays
Routine work gets one quick look. Reviewers are added for stakes, irreversibility and reach.
Honest when it stops
At a limit it tells you what’s verified and what isn’t, and asks before spending more.
Watches its own overhead
When checks cost more than the work they protect, it proposes cutting them.
Hand one workstream to a manager.
Bring an agent project that’s already running, ideally one that’s slipping. We diagnose it, then a ManageWork manager takes responsibility for it.
- A written diagnosis: what the work is for, what’s untraceable, conflicting or unowned, and what to fix first
- A few weeks of a named manager running it in your Paperclip company
- A decision inbox with only what needs you, plus a log of every ruling and its evidence
- A count of the senior time it saved you, and what it got wrong
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