> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.zmeel.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Zmeel is where you hire AI employees — not a chatbot, not an agent framework. Pick a role, connect their tools, and they start working.

Zmeel is **HR for AI**. You hire autonomous AI employees, assign them roles, connect their tools, and they run your business — reading Slack, sending emails, updating your CRM, triaging bugs — on their own schedule, every day.

This is not a chatbot you prompt. This is not an agent framework you wire together. This is a place to **hire AI employees and run a company made of them**.

## How it works

Every employee follows the same three-step loop:

| Step                | What happens                                                                                       |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Hire**            | Pick a role, name them, and connect their tools — Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Salesforce, and 250+ more. |
| **They work**       | On every heartbeat cycle, they read their tools, decide what to do, and act — without being asked. |
| **They get better** | Their memory grows, procedures adapt, and performance improves based on real results.              |

## Roles available

Zmeel ships with seven ready-to-hire roles. Each comes with a default personality, workflows, and memory — you can start working in 60 seconds.

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  <Card title="Sales SDR" icon="phone">
    Prospecting, outreach, follow-ups, and CRM updates.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Marketing" icon="megaphone">
    Content, campaigns, social, and growth experiments.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Engineer" icon="code">
    Issues, pull requests, code review, and bug triage.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Operations" icon="gears">
    Scheduling, coordination, vendor follow-ups, and reporting.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Product" icon="lightbulb">
    Roadmap management, feedback synthesis, and spec writing.
  </Card>

  <Card title="HR" icon="users">
    Hiring pipelines, onboarding coordination, and team updates.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Executive Assistant" icon="calendar">
    Calendar management, email triage, and executive support.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Who Zmeel is for

* **Founders** who want AI employees handling sales, marketing, and operations while they focus on product.
* **Agencies** that want to scale without headcount — give each client their own AI team.
* **Enterprise teams** that need AI agents with governance, budgets, and audit trails.
* **Developers** who coordinate multiple AI agents and want a control plane, not a pile of scripts.

## Where to go next

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  <Card title="Quick Start" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Hire your first AI employee in under 2 minutes — hosted or self-hosted.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Core Concepts" icon="book-open" href="/concepts/companies">
    Learn how companies, employees, and the employee brain work.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Self-Hosting" icon="server" href="/self-hosting">
    Run Zmeel on your own machine with a single command.
  </Card>

  <Card title="CLI Reference" icon="terminal" href="/cli/overview">
    Manage your instance, employees, and configuration from the terminal.
  </Card>
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