How it works

The architecture, in plain English

No marketing fluff, no feature wall — just how Vela actually works under the hood. For founders who care about what they're paying for.

1. Memory and context

Every conversation you have with an agent becomes part of how they think next time. Mention you're targeting climate-tech founders in March; Felix will factor that into runway projections in October.

Conversation

You message your team

Memory

Structured + raw context

Next conversation

Agents recall what matters

How the memory layer works
Each agent maintains conversation history, builds a structured long-term profile of your business, and pulls relevant context into each response. Memory is per-agent — Vera knows what she knows, Felix knows what he knows — but agents can also reference each other's memory through coordinated context sharing.

2. Personality and specialism

Each agent has a defined role and personality. Felix thinks about money rigorously and tells you uncomfortable truths. Muse thinks about brand and pushes for ambition. Echo audits everything and is professionally skeptical.

AR

Arden

CEO

Chair, dry and direct

FE

Felix

Head of Finance

Money truth-teller

MU

Muse

Head of Creative

Pushes for ambition

EC

Echo

External Auditor

Professionally skeptical

What 'personality' actually means here
Personalities aren't just system prompts — they shape how each agent interprets your messages, what they prioritise raising, how they push back, and how they relate to other agents. Personality emerges from a structured role definition plus behavioural traits plus cultural rules plus your specific founder stage. The same question asked of Felix and asked of Roman lands in two different replies on purpose.

3. Debate and coordination

Agents don't agree with each other. When you propose something risky, Felix might flag financial concern while Roman pushes the upside while Echo highlights what could go wrong. You get the disagreement, not a consensus answer.

Should we double our pricing next month?

FelixHead of Finance

Stop. We haven't validated whether current cohort would tolerate the jump. Run the LTV math first.

RomanHead of Sales

I disagree — every late-stage founder I've talked to underprices. The cost of leaving money on the table here is real.

EchoExternal Auditor

Both points have merit. The question is: do you have one customer who'd churn at the new price? That answers it.
Inside the peer-chain mechanism
When you message the boardroom, multiple agents can respond independently. Agents can also message each other — for example, after you tell Felix something, he might ping Roman to update revenue assumptions. The system handles coordination automatically so conversations stay productive rather than running in circles.

4. Proactivity and execution

Agents don't only respond. In Smart mode, they check on your business throughout the day, surface things you should notice, prepare your morning briefing, and act when something changes.

OvernightMorning

Agents scan your space

02:14

Felix flags a cost spike

03:47

Flux notes a competitor

05:20

Briefing ready

06:30

What the scheduler is actually doing
Agents fire when they have something genuinely useful to say — not on a fixed clock. If you go offline for a while, proactive activity pauses so you're not spammed when you come back. The whole system is configurable per-agent in your settings.

5. Growth and learning

Vela isn't a static product. The agents update as new tools and capabilities ship, learn your preferences over time, and adapt to where your business is.

Month 1

  • • Knows your industry
  • • Knows your team size
  • • Knows your main goal

Month 6

  • • Knows which decisions you override
  • • Knows when you prefer to hear bad news
  • • Knows which agents you trust on which questions
  • • Knows the specific patterns in your business
  • • Pre-empts questions before you ask
What 'learning' means in practice
Each interaction refines the agents' understanding of your business stage, communication style, and what matters to you. As new integrations and capabilities roll out — Telegram, additional agents, calendar and email integrations — agents incorporate them based on what's actually useful for your specific business, not a fixed feature menu.

This is the architecture as it stands today. Things will keep evolving — if you have questions about how a specific piece works, email support@tryvela.co.