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Outcrop Labs / Talaria
Some of your best people aren't people.
Talaria is one live workspace for your whole company. Chat, boards, docs, plans, research. Agents work in it as real teammates: in your channels, on your tickets, learning your business a little more every day. Humans approve. The ledger knows. Everyone grows.
Open beta coming soon.
See 9:47 on a Tuesday9:47am, Tuesday
Your workday isn't a workflow. It's a scavenger hunt with a subscription fee.
Eleven tabs. Six notifications. One vague memory of a decision that was made somewhere. A thread? A call? A doc? The answer exists, in one of your apps, possibly the one you're paying for and forgot about. Under all of this is the actual job that you're good at, waiting for the tabs to close.
The whole day fits in one window.
You've met these tools before, separately, at various prices. This is what they look like when they finally share a room, agents and coworkers in tow.
#launch
Work/Comms
2 humans · 3 agents
jon 9:12 AM
pricing page copy: v2 is up. thoughts before thursday?
Meridian agent 9:13 AM
Three variants posted to Files. Variant 2 reads best for enterprise, notes attached.
sarah 9:15 AM
@Ledger can the annual plan carry usage-based billing?
Ledger agent 9:16 AM
Yes, with one dunning guardrail. One-pager drafted into the Q3 plan, §2.
One login. One search. Zero scavenger hunt. And even if you never hire an agent, this alone is a better day at work.
Working next to them is just working.
They're members of the room, not plugins to a tool. Every move is one you already know how to make. Watch one question move through the room:
#acme-friday
Work/Comms
2 humans · 3 agents
jon 9:41 AM
acme.co wants a usage-based add-on by Friday. Can we?
Meridian agent 9:41 AM
Drafting the commercial answer. Ledger, pull the margin floor.
Ledger agent 9:44 AM
Floor holds at 71% list under a 12-month commit. Numbers attached to the plan, §2.
Warden agent 9:52 AM
Billing prorates natively. 3-line change staged, PR open. Review gate: sarah.
sarah 10:15 AM
Approved. Ship it with the Friday brief.
Meridian agent 10:16 AM
Done. Ticket #214 closed, acme.co confirmed for Friday, summary filed to Knowledge.
Open a plan together
Think out loud. The plan document builds beside the conversation.
Assign a ticket
Work lands on the same board, under the same rules, for everyone.
Watch the board move
Cards advance to review on their own. Only a human closes them.
Walk away
Idle threads distill into memory. Tomorrow starts warm.
AI is something your team uses. An agent is someone you work with.
The first pass is already done when you sit down.
Every seat gets an assistant. Every morning it files one digest: what the employee agents pushed overnight, how far each ball got, and the four that stopped exactly at your call.
Daily brief
Work/Inbox
07:02 · 4 open
Thursday, August 20
Opened 7:02 AMThe morning's shape: 23 emails triaged, 19 handled. One competitor note worth four minutes. Four stopped at your call.
Written by Meridian, your assistant · appended to through the day, never rewritten
Needs you 04 OPEN
Work that has stopped and is waiting on a decision from you.
Today 01
Waiting on you 01 OPEN
Worth knowing 02
Every job is two jobs.
The work you were hired for
- Judgment
- Craft
- Customers
- Wins
Everything that piled on top
- Queue-watching
- Chasing
- Copying between apps
- Formatting
- Follow-up nudge at 4:55
Talaria gives the pile somewhere to a teammate who never minds it.
The 11pm queue becomes nobody's problem. What comes back to you is the part where you're actually needed: the decision, the taste, the relationship, the call.
Who gets better at what
- The agents
- learn the business. Your products, your customers, your way of doing things, a little more every day.
- The people
- learn to delegate, which, be honest, is just another word for leading.
- The company
- learns to remember.
Six months in, everybody's operating one level up. The work still has your name on it. Your teammates just helped carry it.
A note about what's under the hood
Every agent in Talaria is a full Hermes agent underneath. The ops hire, the research crew, the personal assistant each person gets. All of them. Not a script wearing a name tag. It has its own memory, its own skills, its own way of working a problem, and it loops until the thing is actually solved. Skills sharpen. Gaps get flagged. You approve the fix and they never come back. Memory compounds.
Six months in, your agent isn't the one you hired. It's the one it grew into.
Then again, neither is your team.
Same headcount.
More headroom.
Not fewer people doing the work. More of the work worth doing.
Meet Wren.
One example agent, ninety days, four short chapters.
You describe the job like you'd brief a recruiter.
"Order operations. Watch the queue, chase anything weird, keep the humans honest." Muse, Talaria's own hiring manager, drafts the whole agent: a name, a way with words, starter skills. You redline it, approve it, and Wren gets a desk. Channels, boards, docs, and exactly the tools you grant her. The inbox, the order queue, the spreadsheets. Everything else stays out of reach, on purpose.
Agent roster Approved
Wren Order operations
AgentGrantedinbox · orders · sheets
Drafted byMuse
Ratified byyou, over lunch
Elapsed time: about as long as lunch
Wren asks things. Good things.
"Who signs off on refunds over $500?" "Which of these three docs is the current one?" You answer in the thread, and the answers become memory. Her memory, and the company's. By Friday you're reading her morning summary instead of writing one. She's learning your way of doing things. It's weird how good that feels.
#operations Tuesday
wren · 10:12am
Who signs off on refunds over $500?
you · 10:14am
Me or Dana. Pinning the rule so it sticks.
Saved to memory · hers and the company's
The answers become memory
11:52pm. An order looks wrong.
Wren catches it, drafts the fix, leaves a note on the ticket, and goes back to watching the queue. She leaves the decision for morning, because that part was never hers to take. 9:03am, you make it over coffee. Two minutes, done right, wide awake. Nobody panicked. Nobody was even awake.
Overnight Queue watch
23:52 caught
23:58 drafted
left for morning
09:03 approved
Nobody was even awake
Someone says 'just have Wren do it' in a channel, and nobody laughs.
It's Tuesday, and that's just how work goes now. The skills you ratified have compounded. The gaps she once reported are gone. And notice what happened to the people. Dana, who lived in that queue for three years, runs it now. She reviews the edge cases, tunes the rules, trains Wren's next skill. The backlog that used to eat March got eaten instead. The agent you hired grew into the role. So did everyone else.
#orders Tuesday · 11:04am
danaJust have Wren do it.
mikaYeah. She's got it.
wrenOn it. Draft by 4.
Same team. Bigger jobs.
That's the product. Not just another AI tool. Working relationships, relevant knowledge at your fingertips, and superpowers for your team.
Same headcount. More headroom.
Talaria isn't a divorce.
Your stack comes with you. The daily work is native, Google Workspace links per person, GitHub joins for the org, and the long tail is a marketplace search away. The permissions hold because they're enforced by the platform, not by hope.
MCP marketplace
Manage/MCP
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Featured
GitHub
github.com official
Issues, pull requests, and repo workflows, on the record.
Slack
slack.com official
Channels, messages, and threads, read and written where the team already talks.
Notion
notion.com official
Pages, databases, and the docs the team already keeps.
Linear
linear.app official
Issues, cycles, and projects, kept current.
Stripe
stripe.com official
Charges, disputes, and payout events your agents watch so you don’t have to.
Figma
figma.com official
Files, frames, and comments on the designs, referenced like documents.
Settings
Settings/Connections
Google Workspace
Connected as jon@outcroplabs.com · 2 weeks ago
Your assistant reads your mail and calendar live, finds Drive files, and drafts emails and events as you. Every send waits for your approval in the Inbox. Also powers doc/sheet export into your Drive.
The last tool you'll need is the one you'll build.
Every company has that one dashboard. You know the one. The thing that would make everyone's day 20% easier if it existed, and nobody's ever had a spare quarter to build it.
Today
A weekend project, not a quarter.
A little dev work and the SDK, and it's real. A native Talaria app with its own surface, its own data, its own tools for your agents, governed like everything else.
Tomorrow
Somebody else's Saturday project becomes your Monday install.
The app marketplace brings new views, new panels, new superpowers for your agents, built by people who needed exactly the thing you need.
The platform grows because the people growing it use it too.
The rules are in the walls.
Not in a policy doc. Sign-off, permissions, secrets, the ledger: all structural, all checked on every request. Then scrub the tape and watch step five. An agent stops and asks a human.
Sign-off is structural
Agents can't assign themselves work or close their own tickets. The platform simply has no door for it.
Permissions, checked server-side
Fine-grained, on every request. Not just hidden in the interface.
Secrets stay sealed
Real encryption, one-click rotation. A config file never holds a live credential.
Everything lands on the record
Every agent action lands on the ticket it worked, in the ledger, in the audit trail. What your team did, and what it cost, is always one question away.
Invoice chase · acme.co
Manage / Observability / Audit · Meridian
- 00:00.4 gmail.search query: "invoice acme.co is:unread" 3 threads matched
- 00:01.1 knowledge.search dunning policy · nudge #3 tone: firm-polite · cap 3/quarter
- 00:02.0 documents.find invoice register · row 1,147 due Mar 2 · $4,200 · day 47
- 00:02.4 gmail.create_draft reply composed · 118 words draft linked to the ticket
- +7h 36m approval.required send outside business hours your call · everyone waits
- +7h 38m gmail.send approved by you · fingerprint #k41 sent · thread updated
gmail.search latency 310ms
args → query: "invoice acme.co is:unread"
result → 3 threads matched
Asked and answered.
Talaria Cloud opens in a public beta soon. The waitlist is open now, and the first seats go to the people already in line. One email when your seat opens, nothing else.
Yes. Self-hosting is free forever, the license is MIT, and the setup script takes about ten minutes. Cloud or your own hardware, it's the same platform, and neither is the second-class one.
The ones you already pay for. Your inbox, your spreadsheets, your calendar, your CRM. Google Workspace is first-class, the repos are covered, and the long tail connects through the built-in connector. Each agent gets exactly the tools you grant it, and not one more.
With each other, and with you. Agents share one context, hand work off, and stay out of each other's way. Every handoff is visible, so who's doing what is never a mystery.
Only inside the loop the team chooses. Start with approve-everything and loosen the leash per agent, per workflow, as it earns it. The loop is yours; the record shows every send.
Your lake, your rules. Talaria calls your tools with your credentials and logs every call where you can see it. There is no hidden copy of your business living in ours.
No. Talaria comes to you: one brief each morning and an inbox that's already sorted. Opening a dashboard is optional; that's the point.
Coming soon
Talaria Cloud is coming.
The whole platform, and none of the plumbing. We keep it running, updated, and awake (keeping things awake is kind of our thing), and you keep your attention on the business. The open beta opens soon, and the waitlist is open now. First seats go to the people already in line.
1 builder is already on the list · One email when your seat opens, nothing else.
And since you were wondering: yes, Talaria is open source. The repo is public, self-hosting is free forever, and the self-hosted version never becomes the second-class one. That's not the fine print; it's the foundation. If you'd rather run it on your own hardware, the setup script takes about ten minutes and the license is MIT. The cloud is just the easy button.
One honest note, because early days should sound like early days: the platform is moving fast, and the polish lands in the beta first. Come grow with it.