Agents: Overview

15Five Agents are AI-powered capabilities built on top of the context layer. They turn your organization's performance data, work signals, and company context into actionable insights, coaching briefs, and AI-assisted review writing — delivered to the right person at the right moment.

Three Agents are available today: Focus Brief delivers private coaching briefs to employees and managers on a weekly or biweekly schedule. AI-Assisted Reviews helps reviewers write higher-quality performance reviews grounded in real evidence. Meeting Assistant sends managers prep before their 1-on-1s, then writes notes and suggested actions into the 1-on-1 afterward. See Meeting Assistant: Feature Overview.

Key Rules

• Agents are configured by HR Admins and Company Admins from the Agents Hub in the left navigation.
• Connected work tools (Slack, Jira, Google Calendar, etc.) feed real work data into the context layer. Integration data stays private — Agents only surface insights to people who already have access.
• Focus Briefs are delivered via Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email on a recurring schedule. No action is required from recipients.
• Meeting Assistant works on 1-on-1s between a manager and a direct report. It needs a connected calendar and one meeting source: Kona Notetaker or Google Meet.
• AI-Assisted Reviews is available for eligible organizations.
• Context you add — Company Context (set by HR) and My Context (set by individuals) — makes Agent outputs more specific to your organization over time.

Start here by role

In This Section

Understand Agents and the context layer

Set up and manage the Agents Hub (Admin)

Connect work system integrations (Admin / IT Admin)

Add and manage context (Admin / Manager / Employee)

Set up and use Focus Briefs (Admin)

Read and act on your Focus Brief (Manager / Employee)

Set up and use Meeting Assistant (Admin)

Use Meeting Assistant in your 1-on-1s (Manager / Employee)

Set up AI-Assisted Reviews (Admin)

Write a review with AI-Assisted Reviews (Manager / Employee)

Use the Conversation Guide after a review (Manager)