How WethosAI works

WethosAI helps you make better decisions by helping you understand the people involved in them. This page explains the parts of the product and how they connect, in the order you are likely to come across them. Every other article in this Help Center covers one part in more detail.

It starts with profiles

A profile is what WethosAI knows about how one person works: how they take in information, whether they pay more attention to the people in a discussion or to the facts, how quickly they want to reach a decision, and how they like work to be organized. You build your own profile when you join, either from your LinkedIn account or by answering a set of questions.

A profile is not a personality type and it is not a score. It is a description of working habits. WethosAI uses it for one purpose: to help you prepare for decisions and conversations with the people involved.

XO uses those profiles to help you prepare

XO is the AI assistant inside WethosAI. It is different from a general-purpose assistant because of what it knows: your profile, the profiles of any people you name, and the documents and conversations in the group or Brainstorm you are in when you ask.

That means you can ask XO the questions that matter before a decision. Who needs to agree to this? What will each of them object to? How should I present it to the person who has to approve it? XO answers for the specific people involved, not for a generic audience. Anything you say to XO on your own is private to you.

Groups are where people work together

A group is a shared space for a set of people who work together: a department, a leadership team, or the people on one project. An admin sets it up. Inside a group you will find its members, its documents, XO, and shared conversations, which are group chats that everyone in the group can see. XO can join these chats when you ask it to.

Brainstorms are where a decision is worked out

A Brainstorm is a space inside a group for one decision or project. You invite the people who need to be part of the decision, attach the relevant documents, and discuss the question together, with XO taking part. When the discussion reaches a conclusion, the decision is saved in the Brainstorm's Decisions Hub, together with the part of the conversation that led to it and the names of the people who contributed.

If a side question comes up that only some of the people need to work on, you can open a Breakout, which is a smaller conversation inside the Brainstorm.

Simulations are a practice run of the discussion

A Simulation is a Brainstorm in which AI participants hold the discussion first, before the real people join. Each AI participant stands in for a real person or for a role:

A Twin is an AI model of a specific person. That person built it themselves and gave permission for it, and it answers questions the way they usually would.
A Virtual Member is an AI model of someone who is not a WethosAI user. It is built from their public work history and from information your organization already has about them.
An Expert speaks from the point of view of a job, such as a chief financial officer. You add one when nobody in the group has that perspective.

The AI participants discuss the question the way the real people would. They disagree, weigh the options, and reach decisions, and you can read the reasoning behind each one. When the Simulation finishes, it turns into a normal Brainstorm. The real people join and carry on from where the Simulation left off. The result is that you see how the discussion is likely to go before it happens for real.

Read more: Running a Simulation, Twins and Virtual Members.

An example

Someone has a decision to make. First they ask XO who needs to agree to it and what each person is likely to object to. Then they open a Brainstorm in their group, attach the proposal, and run a Simulation with the Twins and Virtual Members of the people involved. They read where the simulated discussion got stuck and which objection came up first. They change the proposal to address it, invite the real people into the Brainstorm, and discuss it, with XO summarizing along the way. The decision and the reasoning behind it are saved in the Decisions Hub, where the team can find them later.

What WethosAI does not do

WethosAI describes how people tend to work so that you can prepare for decisions with those people in mind. It does not judge or rank anyone, and it must not be used to make decisions about anyone's job. A Twin exists only if the person it models has given permission. Your conversations with XO belong to you, and the people who manage your organization's account cannot read them.

Read more: Privacy: who can see what. For any term you meet along the way, Words we use has the definition.