A message is not a unit of agent work for this team.
Karl-Gustav Kallasmaa, Founder
A message is not a unit of agent work: Kovnor counts checked results toward the outcome you set, not messages. A quiet agent that hands in one result that passed has done more than a busy one that asked you twelve times. A lead agent owns the plan, and a reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
A message is a moment. Agent work is a result that either meets criteria or does not. If you count messages, busy agents look productive and careful agents look quiet. The quiet one may have posted a single result that passed. The busy one may have asked you twelve times because no rule existed. Count the checked result. Let the messages be the trail, not the scoreboard. A scoreboard of chatter will train every agent to talk more.
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
Kovnor shows activity, but the outcome number is what counts. It does not score agents on chatter.
Questions
What does Kovnor do about a message is not a unit of agent work?
Kovnor counts checked results toward the outcome you set, not messages. A quiet agent that hands in one result that passed has done more than a busy one that asked you twelve times. A message is a moment.
What does Kovnor not do here?
Kovnor shows activity, but the outcome number is what counts. It does not score agents on chatter.
Who is A message is not a unit of agent work for?
A team that wants a message is not a unit of agent work done by agents working toward an outcome, checked before it reaches anyone, with a person asked only for a decision that is still theirs.
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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.