Hiring employees

The 57-role hand-written catalog, hiring from the pack, custom employees, org chart management, and the rules that govern who can manage whom in a Team-X company.

Updated

Team-X ships with 57 curated F10-quality roles: 55 user-hireable roles across 6 hierarchy levels plus 2 hidden system roles. This guide covers hiring, firing, promoting, and managing your org chart.

The Role Catalog

Open the Hire Dialog by clicking the “Hire” button in the Dashboard or sidenav. The dialog shows a searchable, filterable catalog:

Hierarchy Levels

LevelCountExamples
Officer5CEO, CTO, CFO, COO, CMO
Senior Management7VP Engineering, VP Product, VP Sales
Management8Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Design Manager
Supervisor5Team Supervisor, QA Supervisor
Lead5Tech Lead, Design Lead, Data Lead
IC25Senior Fullstack Engineer, Frontend Developer, Data Scientist, UX Researcher

Filtering

  • Search, type a role name or keyword to filter
  • Level chips, click a level chip to show only roles at that level
  • Filters combine: searching “engineer” with the “IC” chip active shows only IC-level engineering roles

Hiring an Employee

  1. Open the Hire Dialog
  2. Browse or search the role catalog
  3. Click on a role to select it
  4. Set a manager, choose who this employee reports to in the “Reports to” dropdown
  5. Click Hire

The new employee appears on the Dashboard, in the org chart, and is immediately available for chat and ticket assignment.

What Happens on Hire

  • A new row is inserted into the employees table
  • An org edge is created linking the employee to their manager
  • The role’s system prompt is rendered with company and employee context variables
  • An event is logged in the audit trail

The Org Chart

Navigate to the Org subtab in the Dashboard to see the full hierarchy.

Reading the Chart

  • Employees are displayed in an indented tree, grouped by reporting line
  • Color-coded levels make it easy to identify the hierarchy at a glance
  • The tree starts from the top (Officers) and flows down through management to ICs

Rearranging

  • Drag an employee to a new position in the tree to change their reporting line
  • The org chart prevents cycles, you cannot make someone report to their own subordinate

Managing Employees

Promoting

  1. Right-click an employee or use the employee detail panel
  2. Select Promote
  3. Choose the new role from the catalog
  4. The employee’s role specification, level, and system prompt are updated

Changing Managers

  1. Select an employee
  2. Use Set Manager to pick a new reporting line
  3. The org chart updates immediately

Firing

  1. Select an employee
  2. Click Fire
  3. The employee is soft-deleted (archived), their data remains in the database for audit purposes
  4. Active tickets assigned to them can be reassigned

Best Practices

  • Start with a CEO. Give your organization a strategic leader who can delegate to others.
  • Build depth, not just breadth. A VP of Engineering managing 3 Tech Leads who each manage 5 engineers creates natural delegation patterns.
  • Match roles to goals. If your company goal is “Ship the MVP,” hire engineers, a product manager, and a QA lead, not 5 VPs.
  • Use the right model tier per level. Officers benefit from planning-tier models (Claude Opus, GPT-4); ICs work well with development-tier models (Sonnet, GPT-4o).