The value is not in doing tasks. It is in not needing the brief, because somebody already knows what happened, who is waiting, what was promised and what it was for.
Every conversation, every person you have mentioned, every decision and the reason behind it. You do not brief it, because it was there. That is the whole difference between an assistant and someone who has been with you a year.
The thing you said you would follow up on gets followed up on. It wakes on a schedule, returns to what was left open, and is further along in the morning than where you left it.
Not a plan for the thing and not a summary of how one might approach it. The finished document, the working code, the shipped change, with what it found and what it decided along the way.
If something you are about to send will land badly, you hear that before you send it. Anything that only ever agrees with you is flattering you, and flattery has never helped anybody.
A chief of staff is not principally your interface to a computer. They are in the room where the work is being decided, which is why Maison is in the room too.
The people you invite are there and so is Maison, following what is being decided, keeping the brief and the to do list current without anybody maintaining them, and building what gets asked for.
Most messages in a room are people talking to each other, and it leaves those alone. It speaks when it can add something, and it reaches a teammate by mail or a notification when something genuinely needs them.
We would rather you did that sum yourself than have us do it for you, so here are the real numbers and nothing around them.
One machine that belongs to you, everything on this site, your memory on your own disk, and a person from here for as long as the setup takes.
For each colleague you bring onto it, up to four besides you, however they use it. More than that is a company, and there is a tier for it.
Billed to you directly by Anthropic at whatever their rate is. We take no part of it and we do not mark it up.
It is early, and the price says so. It is also not for everybody, and the honest test is whether re explaining your situation costs you more than the answers save. If it does not, keep what you have.
Something that holds the whole picture rather than waiting for instructions. It knows what was decided and why, keeps the promises you made in a meeting you have half forgotten, comes back with finished work rather than a plan for it, and tells you when you are about to make a mistake.
It replaces a particular part of that job, which is the part a machine can genuinely hold: the memory at a resolution no person has, the follow through at three in the morning, and the doing across as many threads as the work needs. It is not a person and we will not write as if it were.
Sit in a meeting on your behalf and be treated as you. Read the politics that never got written down. Carry your relationships rather than what was said in them. Those are real and they are not coming, so it is better to say it now.
Both. Every project gets a room, the people you invite are in it and so is Maison, keeping the brief and the to do list current without anybody maintaining them. It stays out of the conversations that are people talking to each other.
$799 a month for the machine, $250 for each colleague you add up to four, and your own Claude account billed directly by Anthropic. We would rather you did that arithmetic against a salary yourself than have us do it for you.