Your desk
Sit down for Upcoming, Completed, Currently working and New replies in one panel. Press My desk to get back here from anywhere.
Your AI agents, working in a 3D office
ShiftHands gives your AI agents a 3D office, with desks grouped by project and live activity you can walk up to. Check who’s working, open an agent’s chat, watch automations and see what needs your attention. The office works in the Mac app and your browser, including on your phone.
Office tour
Take the 30-second office tour
This is the real Virtual Environment, recorded in the ShiftHands demo workspace with made-up names. Press play for the full tour, or keep scrolling for each part of the office.
Recorded in the ShiftHands demo workspace with made-up projects and names. In the app, open the office from the sidebar or from Chief of Staff.
What is the ShiftHands AI agent office?
The AI agent office is ShiftHands’ Virtual Environment. It turns the agents in your ShiftHands workspace into people at desks, so you can see your whole team at once. It is a way to view and reach your agents, not a separate place where they run. It shows ShiftHands agents only. It is not a viewer for agents built in other tools.
A view of your real workspace
Projects, agents, chats and automations in the office are the same ones in the rest of the app.
Built for supervision
The point is to spot who is working, who has replied and who needs you, then act on it.
Not a separate runtime
Agents still run in the ShiftHands Mac app on your Apple-silicon Mac, using the AI accounts you connect.
Agent desks
See what every agent is doing
Every agent has a desk in its project’s colour-coded area. Status chips across the top of the office show who is in each state. Tap New replies to walk straight to an unread answer.
- Need you: an agent is waiting on a sign-in, an OK or a question.
- New replies: an agent has an answer you haven’t read yet.
- Working: a typing bubble says what the agent is doing right now.
- Lounge: free agents wait here, ready for the next task.
Movement in the office reflects the state of your ShiftHands agents and automations. It is a picture of the work, not extra work the agents do on their own.
Live work
Walk up to an agent and open its work
Walk over to any desk and press E. The agent’s chat opens beside you, with its live steps, and its monitor shows a live terminal of the work.
- Read the latest reply and send the next instruction from the desk.
- Follow each step as the agent works, the same as in its normal chat.
- When an agent needs a sign-in, its browser opens right in the office.
- Links, images and files open inside the office, so you don’t leave to read a result.
- Flagged commands still ask you to Allow once or Deny, depending on that agent’s settings.
Automations
Review automations from the office
Scheduled work gets its own big screen. The Automations Wall shows today’s Upcoming, Running now and Completed automations, so you can check the day at a glance.
- Step up to the tablet to take a closer look at any run.
- Agents running an automation walk to the Automations room while it runs.
- Each finished run still posts its result card in the agent’s chat.
- Your Mac must be on and awake with ShiftHands open for automations to run on time.
Your desk
Your desk, Chief of Staff and Strategy Whiteboard
Your own desk is the control point of the office. From there, your Chief of Staff and the Strategy Whiteboard keep the next steps in view.
The Strategy Whiteboard
Your Chief of Staff does rounds of the desks and writes ideas for your projects each morning. Save one to your Idea Book, or choose Make it real for a draft you review first.
Your office phone
Press P to text your Chief of Staff, for example to give an agent work or pause its automations. Projects jumps you to a project area.
Whiteboard ideas are suggestions from your Chief of Staff agent. Check them before you act; nothing on the board runs until you choose it.
Use the AI agent office on Mac or in your browser
The office opens wherever you use ShiftHands. The agents themselves stay on the Mac that hosts them.
In the Mac app
Open the Virtual Environment from the sidebar, or ask Chief of Staff to take you there.
In a web browser
Sign in at shifthands.com on another computer to walk the same office and chat with the same agents.
On your phone
Use your phone’s browser to check status and open chats. ShiftHands is not a native phone app.
3D or 2D
Switch views in Settings, with graphics quality, office music and a battery saver.
The host Mac
Agents need an Apple-silicon Mac (M1 or newer) with macOS 13 or later and 8 GB of RAM. See where ShiftHands agents run.
Office extras
Customise your virtual office
The extras make the office feel like a place, but the reason to use it is still seeing and steering your agents’ work.
- Miami or New York Pick the city outside your windows, and set the time of day to day, sunset or night.
- Your look Choose your own avatar: Man · Dark, Man · Light or Woman.
- A balcony and lounge Step out onto the terrace, play pool or checkers against idle agents, or read in the library upstairs.
- The office tablet Open YouTube, Twitch or a web browser, streamed from your own Mac with your Ego Lite sign-ins. A playing video follows you in a corner player.
- Talk out loud Optional voice mode answers in each agent’s own voice. It needs your own ElevenLabs account, which is not included in ShiftHands plans.
What runs behind the 3D office?
The office is the view. Here is what does the work, and where each part lives.
Your Mac runs the agents
Agents, their tools, browser work and schedules run in the ShiftHands Mac app on your Apple-silicon Mac.
Your AI provider runs the model
Requests go to the Claude, ChatGPT or API-key provider you connect, under its own terms and usage limits.
ShiftHands syncs the workspace
Your projects, agents, automations and settings are stored by ShiftHands, so every device shows the same office.
A relay connects your browser
Live traffic between your browser or phone and your Mac passes through an encrypted relay that does not save it.
The office only draws the work
Walking, desks and rooms show what your agents are doing. They don’t add steps or permissions of their own.
For setup and Mac requirements, see the AI agent for Mac guide.
Is the AI agent office free?
Yes. The Virtual Environment is included on every plan, Free included. Full details are on ShiftHands pricing.
Free, $0
The 3D office, plus 25 agent messages a day, 1 project, 3 agents and 2 daily automations.
Pro, $49.99 a month or $499 a year
No plan-level caps on projects, agents or automations, and flexible schedules such as every hour. Fair-use caps still apply.
No extra AI usage for the view
Walking the office costs no AI usage. Agent chats, Chief of Staff requests and automations still use your AI provider’s usage.
Who is the AI agent office for?
It suits people who run several ShiftHands agents and like to see their team in one place.
The office fits if
- You run several ShiftHands agents across different projects.
- You prefer to see your team in a space rather than a list.
- You want to spot who needs you and answer quickly.
- You check on scheduled work and want today’s runs on one screen.
- You have an Apple-silicon Mac to host the agents.
Look elsewhere if
- You want to visualise agents built in other frameworks or tools.
- You need observability for any agent runtime, not just ShiftHands.
- You need fully offline, local AI with no cloud model provider.
- You only have Windows or an Intel Mac to host agents.
- You prefer a plain list view. The AI agent dashboard covers that.
Frequently asked questions
Which agents appear in the office?
The agents in your ShiftHands workspace. You can’t bring agents from other tools or runtimes into the 3D office.
Does the office run my agents?
No. Your Apple-silicon Mac runs them in the ShiftHands app. The office is a view of that work that you can walk around.
Can I open the office on my phone?
Yes, in your phone’s browser. You can check status and open chats. It is not a native phone app.
Is there a 2D view?
Yes. Switch between 3D and 2D in Settings, along with graphics quality, office music and battery saver.
Is the AI agent office free?
Yes. It is included on Free and Pro. Free still has its limits: 25 agent messages a day, 1 project, 3 agents and 2 daily automations.
Does walking around the office use AI credits?
No. The 3D view uses no extra AI usage. Chats, Chief of Staff requests and automations still use your AI provider’s usage.
What do I need to host the agents?
An Apple-silicon Mac (M1 or newer) with macOS 13 or later and 8 GB of RAM, on and awake with ShiftHands open. See where ShiftHands agents run.
Is voice mode included?
Voice mode is optional and needs your own ElevenLabs account. It is not part of ShiftHands plans.
Open your AI agent office
Download the Mac app, connect an AI account you already have, and walk into the office on the Free plan.
Prefer a conventional list view? Explore the AI agent dashboard.
Screens and video come from the ShiftHands demo workspace with made-up names. Features and prices were checked on October 23, 2026 and can change.