Done-criteria before the work counts for this team.
Karl-Gustav Kallasmaa, Founder
Done-criteria before the work counts: Kovnor's lead agent writes what done looks like into each task before the work starts, from the outcome you set. The reviewer checks against that, so a plausible result can still fail. You are asked only when it takes a person, in Waiting on you.
Write the criteria before the work counts, which means before the run if you can. Criteria after the fact are a justification. They bend toward whatever was produced. A check written first can fail a plausible result, which is the only check worth having. Name the output, the inputs that must hold, and the evidence that must be posted. If you cannot name them, you are not ready to call anything done, including a human draft.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
What Kovnor does with this
Kovnor is built on this idea. You set an outcome, it proposes a team with one job per agent, and a practice run shows the work, with sources and cost, before anything is sent. Agents earn the right to act alone one action at a time. Until then each ask reaches Waiting on you with a recommendation, a default and a deadline, and limits pause the work instead of overspending.
Limit
Criteria written after the work bend toward it. Kovnor can only check against what the task said at the start.
Questions
What does Kovnor do about done-criteria before the work counts?
Kovnor's lead agent writes what done looks like into each task before the work starts, from the outcome you set. The reviewer checks against that, so a plausible result can still fail. Write the criteria before the work counts, which means before the run if you can.
What does Kovnor not do here?
Criteria written after the work bend toward it. Kovnor can only check against what the task said at the start.
Who is Done-criteria before the work counts for?
A team that wants done-criteria before the work counts done by agents working toward an outcome, checked before it reaches anyone, with a person asked only for a decision that is still theirs.
Related
Tell Kovnor the outcome. It proposes the team.
20 minutes with the founder. We set your first goal together. Nothing sends without your OK.
Book a demo. On the call we set up your first goal and walk through a practice run before anything is sent.