Teams and individuals deploying scoped AI agents
Private & Team AI Agents
Personal AI assistants and team-scoped agents with built-in access controls
Every team wants AI assistants. The developer wants a coding assistant that triages issues, reviews PRs, and manages their inbox. The support lead wants an email processor that categorizes tickets and drafts responses. The product manager wants a research bot that pulls data from Jira, Notion, and Slack to generate status reports.
The problem is not deploying these agents. The problem is controlling who can talk to them.
When an AI agent has access to your email, calendar, documents, and code repositories, anyone who can message that agent can potentially extract that data. A shared Slack bot connected to your company’s Google Drive is effectively giving every Slack user a conversational interface to your Drive, regardless of whether they have direct access. A team agent in a public channel can be queried by employees from other departments, contractors, or even external guests in shared channels.
This is not a theoretical risk. It is the natural consequence of deploying AI agents without access controls. ClawStaff solves it with channel-level whitelisting and three Claw scoping levels that let you deploy personal, team, and organization-wide agents with the right access boundaries from day one.
The Challenge
Employees want personal AI assistants but fear data exposure. A developer wants a personal Claw that reads their GitHub notifications, triages their Jira tickets, and drafts their Slack responses. But if anyone in the workspace can message that Claw, it becomes a liability. A colleague could ask it about the developer’s email, a manager could query it about code review comments, or a prompt injection in a shared channel could extract data through the Claw.
Teams need shared agents but cannot risk org-wide access. The support team wants a Claw that processes their shared Gmail inbox and creates Jira tickets. But they do not want the sales team, the engineering team, or interns querying that Claw about customer complaints or support ticket details. The agent needs to be shared within the support team and invisible to everyone else.
Current platforms lack granular access controls. Most AI agent platforms offer a binary choice: the agent is either available to everyone or available to no one. There is no middle ground, no way to say “this agent responds only to these five people in this one Slack channel” or “this agent processes emails only from this domain.” The result is that teams either deploy agents with overly broad access or do not deploy them at all.
How ClawStaff Solves It
Private Claws: Your Personal AI Assistant
A Private Claw is an AI assistant that only you can interact with. Deploy it, connect your tools, and it works exclusively for you. Nobody else in your organization can message it, trigger it, or see its outputs.
Example: Personal coding assistant. Connect GitHub and Slack. Whitelist your Slack DM with the Claw and your GitHub repos via a personal access token. The Claw triages your GitHub notifications, summarizes open PRs that need your review, and responds to your Slack DMs with code context. Nobody else in the workspace can see or interact with the conversation.
Example: Personal inbox assistant. Connect Gmail and Slack. Whitelist your email address and your Slack DM. Every morning, the Claw reads your new emails, categorizes them (action required, FYI, spam), drafts responses for routine messages, and sends you a summary in Slack. Your email content stays between you and the Claw.
Example: Personal meeting prep. Connect Google Calendar, Docs, and Slack. Before each meeting, the Claw checks your calendar, pulls relevant documents and recent Slack threads about the topic, and sends you a briefing doc with agenda, context, and suggested talking points.
Team Claws: Shared Within Your Team
A Team Claw is whitelisted to specific team members. It serves the team’s shared workflows (processing the team inbox, managing the team’s project board, maintaining team documentation) but the rest of the organization cannot access it.
Example: Support team email processor. Connect Gmail, Jira, and Slack. The Claw reads the support@company.com inbox, categorizes each email by urgency and topic, creates Jira tickets with the relevant details, and posts summaries in the #support-triage Slack channel. Only members of the support Slack user group can interact with the Claw. They can ask it to re-prioritize tickets, check customer history, or draft follow-up emails. The engineering team, even though they are in the same Slack workspace, cannot query the Claw.
Example: Engineering bug triage. Connect GitHub, Slack, and Jira. The Claw monitors the #bugs Slack channel (whitelisted to the engineering team), reads bug reports, searches for related GitHub issues and recent commits, creates Jira tickets with suggested priority and assignee, and replies in the Slack thread with the ticket link. Only whitelisted engineers can interact with it.
Example: Product team research bot. Connect Notion, Jira, and Slack. The Claw serves the product team, searching Notion for research documents, querying Jira for feature requests and their statuses, and generating weekly product reports. Whitelisted to the #product Slack channel and the product team user group.
Organization-wide Claws: Company Resources
An Organization-wide Claw is available to any member of your organization, whitelisted to your company domain. It serves as a shared resource (knowledge base, help desk, or policy assistant) while still preventing external access.
Example: Company knowledge bot. Connect Notion, Google Drive, and Slack. Any employee can DM the Claw or mention it in any channel to search for company documents, policies, and procedures. The Claw is whitelisted to @company.com Slack members, so external guests in shared channels cannot interact with it.
Example: HR policy assistant. Connect Google Docs (with the employee handbook and policy documents) and Google Chat. Any employee can ask the Claw about PTO policies, benefits enrollment, or expense procedures. The Claw responds with accurate information from the source documents. Whitelisted to organizational Google accounts only.
How Whitelisting Works Per Integration
Each integration has its own whitelisting mechanism, giving you precise control:
| Integration | Whitelist By | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Slack | Users, channels, user groups | ”Only @engineering-team group in #bugs channel” |
| Microsoft Teams | Users, channels, Teams groups | ”Only the Engineering team” |
| Gmail | Email addresses, domains | ”Only @company.com emails” |
| Google Chat | Users, spaces | ”Only the Product space” |
| GitHub | PAT repository scope | ”Only repos in the PAT” |
| Notion | Shared pages | ”Only pages shared with integration” |
| Discord | Users, roles, channels | ”Only @Staff role” |
| Telegram | Users, groups | ”Only the team group” |
Featured Integrations
- Slack: The most common deployment channel for Claws. Whitelist by user, channel, or Slack user group. Private Claws work through DMs; team Claws through dedicated channels.
- Google Workspace: 13 Google services with per-service read/write controls. Whitelist Gmail by address or domain, Calendar by calendar ID, Chat by space, and Drive/Docs/Sheets by shared folder.
- Microsoft Teams: Deploy Claws as Teams bot users. Whitelist by user, channel, or Teams group. IT admin app policies provide additional control.
- GitHub: Access scoped through personal access tokens. Each PAT defines exactly which repos and permissions the Claw has.
Getting Started
Deploy your first scoped Claw in minutes. Start with a Private Claw: connect your Slack and one other integration, whitelist yourself, and experience what a personal AI assistant feels like when you know it is truly private. Then expand to a Team Claw for your team’s shared workflows. ClawStaff charges per-Claw, not per-seat, so your entire team benefits without multiplying your bill.
See Access Controls & Whitelisting for technical details on configuring channel-level whitelisting and Claw scoping levels.