FAQ
Questions, answered plainly
You're being careful. Good. That's the right instinct with anything that touches your business. Here's what we'd want to know, answered the way we'd want it answered.
Chief Staffer is a private chief of staff for your business. It builds a structured, verified map of your business from your own documents and conversations, then uses it to answer questions and produce real work grounded in your actual facts, with sources on demand and gaps named instead of invented. It runs on the AI host you choose, and works with any AI that supports MCP. The more you work with it, the more it knows.
Chief Staffer works with any AI that supports MCP, the open standard AI apps use to connect to outside tools: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or a fully local model. You designate the host, and Chief Staffer runs on whichever AI you choose to connect it to.
Chief's engine and graph run entirely on your machine, and Chief adds no cloud of its own: there's no Chief Staffer server, no hosted account, nothing we host or could see. Your data environment is whatever your chosen AI host provides: fully air-gapped if you connect a local model, or governed by that host's own agreements if you connect a cloud AI like Claude or ChatGPT.
Chief Staffer, $499/mo. One plan, everything included: the full engine, the built-in ontology, authoring, and reasoning for provable answers, all in the price. Start with a 14-day free trial, cancel anytime. Need multiple seats or a hands-on setup? That's quote-based: contact us. Priced against the work it does for you, not against other software. You bring your own AI tokens, so there is no usage markup from us. Founder pricing and non-profit grants are available. See pricing.
Reasoning is included in the $499/mo plan. For the questions where a confident-sounding guess isn't good enough, Chief runs deterministic checks and returns a proof: a verified answer, or a clear no, and why, with the paths it ruled out. It's there for the decisions where being wrong is expensive.
ChatGPT's memory and Copilot's context are conversational recall: they hold onto snippets from past chats, but they don't hold a structured model of your business. Chief Staffer keeps a real working model of how your business runs: your departments, staff roles, skills, and document blueprints, all connected, plus governed production with receipts you can check. It's the difference between an assistant that remembers what you said and one that actually knows how your business works.
No. If you can use your AI assistant, you can use Chief Staffer. There's no code to write and no new tool to learn: you work the same way you already do, and Chief Staffer does the rest underneath.
Yes. Chief Staffer is billed monthly, and you can cancel anytime: no contract, no cancellation fee. Chief's engine and graph live on your machine regardless, so nothing about your local setup changes when you cancel.
Chief Staffer runs on the AI host you designate, using your own account and your own usage with that provider. AI usage is billed by them, directly to you, at their rates. We don't resell AI access or mark it up, and we never sit between you and your provider. Your total cost is the Chief Staffer price plus whatever your own AI usage runs, with no hidden layer in between.