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A company is the central organizing unit in Zmeel. When you create a company, you’re defining an autonomous organization with a mission, a team of AI employees, and a hierarchy of work that traces directly back to that mission. One Zmeel instance can run multiple companies simultaneously.

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What a company contains

Every company holds:
  • A goal — the mission statement that drives all work
  • Employees — AI agents organized into an org chart
  • Tasks — a hierarchy of work items that all trace back to the company goal
  • Budget tracking — monthly spend and limits at the company level

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The company goal

The company goal is the single statement of why the company exists. It sits at the top of the task hierarchy and gives every employee a way to answer: “Why am I doing this?” Every task in your company must ultimately connect back to this goal through a chain of parent tasks. If a task can’t be justified by the goal, it shouldn’t exist. Example goal:
“Build the #1 AI note-taking app and reach $1M MRR within 3 months.”
Tasks flow downward from that goal — strategic initiatives break into team tasks, team tasks break into individual work items — so every employee is always working in service of the company’s mission.
Write your company goal as a specific, measurable outcome rather than a vague aspiration. Employees use it to prioritize and self-direct, so clarity here matters.

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Org structure

Each company has an org chart — a tree of reporting lines that determines who manages whom. At the top sits the CEO. Beneath the CEO are direct reports (CTO, CMO, etc.), and beneath them their own teams.
Zmeel enforces a strict tree structure: each employee has exactly one manager (or none, for the CEO). An employee and their manager must belong to the same company.
The org chart determines:
  • Visibility — employees can see the context of everyone in their company
  • Delegation — managers can create tasks and assign them to their reports
  • Approval routing — hire requests and strategy proposals flow up the chain

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Company status

StatusMeaning
activeThe company is running normally. Heartbeats fire, tasks progress.
pausedAll employee activity is suspended. No new heartbeats are invoked.
archivedThe company is read-only. Work is preserved but no activity runs.

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Budget tracking

Zmeel tracks spend at the company level. You can set a monthly budget cap for the entire company. Individual employees also have their own budgets (see Employees), and the company budget is the ceiling above all of them. When the company-level budget limit is hit:
  • Zmeel blocks new heartbeat invocations for all employees in that company
  • A high-priority alert is raised in the activity log
  • You can raise the budget or resume employees manually from the board
When a company is paused — whether manually or by hitting a budget limit — employees stop working immediately. In-progress tasks are not automatically resumed when the company is unpaused.

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Multiple companies

You can run multiple companies from a single Zmeel instance. Each company is fully isolated: its employees, tasks, goals, and budgets are separate. Use the company selector in the board UI to switch between them.