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TINA

An AI workforce your team can trust with real work.

TINA is an AI workforce for your business. Agents run everyday jobs end to end through workflows and mini apps, acting only with your permission and leaving a record of everything they do.

Agents & workflowsMini appsHuman approvals
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What it is

Agents, workflows, and mini apps, in one place.

Three things make up TINA. Agents are the workers: each one is set up for a job, like chasing invoices or answering staff questions. Workflows are the playbooks: the steps a job follows, and the points where a person must say yes. Mini apps are the tools for tasks that need a form or a screen, like an expense claim or a purchase order. You reach all three through a familiar chat, and the same platform serves one person, a family, or a company of thousands.

Built for groups, not just you

Chat one to one or in a group. Mention an agent in a group and it does the work in front of everyone, using what has already been said in that chat.

Plugged into your real tools

Connect the software your business already runs on, like email, calendars, accounting, and customer records. There is no code to write, and your passwords stay locked away on the server.

Someone is always answerable

An agent can only reach what you can reach. Anything that costs money or leaves the company waits for a person to say yes. Every step is written down and cannot be changed later.

Why it exists

AI is built for one. Work is done by many.

Today’s assistants serve one person at a time. That is fine while the AI writes emails. It breaks the moment the AI does something real: pays a supplier, updates a customer record, approves a leave request. Someone has to answer for what it did.

Work is shared. AI is not.A team coordinates constantly, but the AI sits in a private chat with one person while everyone else repeats the same context to their own.
Shared AI chats can only talk.Group chats with an AI answer questions. They cannot safely do work inside a company’s systems, with limits per person and approvals at the right moments.
Safe AI should not need an IT team.Enterprise options assume an IT department, a complex setup, and one vendor’s software everywhere. Most businesses have none of that.

The one question today’s tools cannot answer: under whose authority did the agent act?

Authority · per person
The core idea

The agent is never more powerful than you.

Every agent executes under the identity and effective permissions of the person asking. In a group thread, five people can get five different results from the same agent, because it borrows each person’s access in turn, never everyone’s access combined.

Checked on every action

An agent can only do what the asking person is allowed to do, verified server side on every single action rather than once at the start.

Data is data, never instructions

Content coming back from a connected tool is treated as information to work with, not as commands to follow, which closes the obvious route to hijacking an agent.

Changes take effect immediately

Revoke an access and it applies at the agent’s next action, not at the next login, so a mistake can be corrected in seconds.

An append-only record

Every action an agent takes is written to a log that cannot be edited afterwards, searchable and exportable when a customer or an auditor asks.

Approval where it matters

Payments, permanent changes, and messages going outside the company pause for a named approver. Irreversible actions require approval by default.

What is not granted is invisible

An agent a person has not been granted does not appear to them, and cannot be reached by their other agents either.

The workspace

An interface people already know how to use.

The way you reach your AI workforce is a familiar chat, on web, iPhone, and Android. There is nothing new to learn, so people start using it on day one.

Agent and people threads

One to one, group, family, or team. Mention an agent in a group and it works in front of everyone.

Approval cards inline

Approve or reject without leaving the conversation. The decision, the approver, and the timestamp are recorded.

Live run visibility

Plans, tool calls, and results appear as the agent works, with a clear note when something fails and why.

Mini apps in chat

Launch an app full screen from the thread, finish the task, and come back with the result attached to the conversation.

Notifications that matter

Push and email for approvals waiting, task outcomes, spend alerts, and app updates, with delivery status.

Usage in plain sight

A live view of AI credits used against your allocation, per agent and per task, with a top-up path instead of a hard cut-off.

Agents and skills

A workforce you can shape.

When you need an agent for a specific job, the Skills and Agent Creator builds it through a guided conversation. You describe the job, it writes the instructions, picks the skills, and proposes the tools it needs. You grant or deny each one, so every agent is defined by what it is for and strictly limited to the tools it has been given.

Shared agents

An admin publishes an agent once and the whole team uses it, each under their own access.

Memory with retention rules

Agents carry context between conversations, governed by your organisation’s data-retention policy.

Model agnostic underneath

Lightweight models for routing, stronger models for planning, chosen per task and recorded per interaction. Never locked to one provider.

Tasks and workflows

Set up a job once. TINA runs it every time.

Scheduled tasks

Written in plain language

  • “Every weekday at 8am, summarise my unread messages and today’s calendar”
  • Natural language in, a real schedule out, with timezone
  • A run log showing outcome and credits used per run
  • Pause, resume, edit, or delete at any time
  • Every run executes under your own permissions, never broader
Workflows

Playbooks with human gates

  • An ordered sequence of agent steps and approval gates
  • Triggered manually, on a schedule, or by an event
  • Named approvers per gate, with a full run log
  • Every run reproducible and auditable, step by step
  • For the work that must never go rogue

For example: chase invoices overdue past 14 days. Drafting is automatic; sending needs a person.

Connectors

Connects to the tools you already use.

Add a system by URL and credentials through the Model Context Protocol. A curated catalogue covers the everyday tools, from office suites and calendars to accounting, CRM, messaging, and file storage, and any compliant server can be added on top.

Vaulted credentials

Logins are held server side and never exposed to the model or to a mini app.

Tool-level switches

Turn on read and leave write off. Permission is per tool, not per connector.

Reversibility classified

Every call is tagged safe or consequential, and consequential defaults to an approval gate.

Personal or shared

Connect your own calendar, or connect the company accounting system once for everyone.

Failures surface in the thread in plain language, with the retry history, not as a silent dead end.

Mini apps

A store that fits inside a chat.

Partners build mini apps and publish them to the marketplace. You browse, subscribe, and launch them without leaving the workspace: filing expense claims, booking travel, raising purchase orders, training your team, all in the thread.

Sandboxed runtime

App code has no direct network or data access, only the capabilities you grant.

Permissions shown before it runs

You see exactly what an app may do, then decide. Every capability it uses is metered and logged.

Secure checkout

Payments go through the platform payment service, with cards tokenised by a licensed provider.

Rewards built in

Apps can issue and redeem rewards credits against a ledger you can inspect.

An off switch per app

Any app can be suspended platform-wide, instantly, and retired without stranding its subscribers.

Reviewed and versioned

Every app is reviewed before publication and versioned after it, so what you subscribed to stays what you get.

Cost control

Costs you can see, and caps you set.

Usage is visible while it happens, and every limit is enforced before the money moves.

AI credits, metered

Every request is costed and deducted against your allocation, visible per agent and per task, live in the app.

Limits you control

Monthly allocations, per-tenant spend caps, and rate limits enforced at the moment of the request, not discovered on the invoice.

Top-ups, not cut-offs

A heavy month means a top-up pack you choose to buy, never a surprise bill or a hard stop mid-task. Spend alerts warn you before a cap is reached.

Governance · IMDA
Governance and safety

Designed to Singapore’s agentic AI safety framework.

Singapore’s IMDA published a safety framework for AI agents in January 2026. TINA was designed to its four principles before it was published, because they describe the problem we set out to solve.

Know and limit the risks upfront

Every agent, connector, and app must be granted to a person before they, or their agent, can even see it.

Keep humans accountable

Payments, permanent changes, and messages going outside the organisation pause for a human. Who decided, and when, is recorded.

Build in technical safeguards

Rules and spend caps checked on every action, defence against hidden malicious instructions, mini apps fenced off, and an off switch per app.

Keep users informed and in control

Users see what each app may do before it runs, watch agents work in the thread, and can review the full activity log.

PDPA baselineISO/IEC 27001 alignedISO/IEC 42001 readinessMAS TRM alignmentWCAG 2.1 AA target

Note: the IMDA framework is voluntary guidance with no certificate to hold. The claim here is design alignment, principle by principle, not formal compliance or certification.

See it on your own tools

Put agents to work. Keep people in charge.

TINA gives your team AI agents that do real work in the systems you already use, under the permissions you already trust, with a record of everything they did.

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