CEO Setup Assistant (Manual)
Full control over your AI company structure. Describe your goal in detail, and the CEO agent builds a custom plan from scratch.
What Is the CEO Setup Assistant?
The CEO Setup Assistant is AgentAGI's manual company creation flow. Instead of using a pre-built template, you describe your goal in detail, and the CEO agent (Atlas) analyzes your requirements, detects the roles you need, and creates a fully custom company plan from scratch.
This path gives you full control over every aspect of your AI company — agent roles, system prompts, project structure, task priorities, and budgets. You can reorder, edit, and approve everything before anything is created.
Best for
Experienced users, complex or multi-faceted projects, and anyone who wants granular control over agent roles, hierarchies, and initial task assignments.
How It Works
The CEO Setup Assistant follows a 5-step flow. Each step gives you more control and visibility than the template path.
Describe Your Goal
From the Dashboard, open the CEO Setup Assistant. Describe your goal in detail — the more specific, the better. For example: "I'm building a SaaS for independent dental practices with 3-10 locations. The CEO should set up developers, a marketing agent for SEO/local ads, and a support agent. Tech stack: React + Node.js + PostgreSQL. Target: US dental practices struggling with insurance claim denials."
CEO Analyzes & Plans
The CEO agent (Atlas) analyzes your description and identifies required roles from keywords. It detects if you need CTO/developers, marketers, sales agents, support, analysts, and more. The CEO then creates a custom plan with: projects (with priorities and subdirectories), agent roster (names, roles, system prompts, skills), initial tasks for each agent, and routines (cron-based recurring tasks).
Review & Customize
You see the full plan in a review screen. You can: reorder project priorities, select which project starts first, edit agent names, roles, and system prompts, adjust budgets per agent, and modify task lists. Nothing is created until you approve.
Create Everything
Click "Create everything." The CEO bootstraps the entire company structure: agents with appropriate system prompts and skills, projects with subdirectories, initial tasks based on goal type (tech vs non-tech), company-level goals, and reporting hierarchy (agents report to CEO).
CEO Starts Planning
The CEO wakes up and starts the first sprint. Agents begin their heartbeat cycles, working through their assigned tasks. Your dashboard shows the company, projects, tasks, and real-time activity logs.
What the CEO Creates Automatically
When you approve and click create, the CEO agent builds everything needed for your company to start operating:
Projects
With priorities and subdirectories
Agent Roster
Names, roles, system prompts, skills
Company Goals
Mission-aligned objectives
Initial Tasks
Based on goal type (tech vs non-tech)
Routines
Cron-based recurring tasks
Reporting Hierarchy
reportsTo chain, agents report to CEO
The CEO handles everything. From role detection and prompt generation to project structure and task creation. You stay in control as the board of directors, approving strategy while your AI team executes.
How Role Detection Works
The CEO agent scans your description for keywords and context clues to determine which roles your company needs. Here is how it maps descriptions to roles:
Full control. You can add, remove, or modify any agent after the AI creates the plan. The CEO's detection is a starting point — you make the final decisions.
Manual Setup vs Magic Onboarding
Pro tip
Start with a template even if you plan to customize. It's faster to modify an existing configuration than to build from scratch. You can always add, remove, or modify agents after launch.