# Chat bots
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/work-together/chat-bots

Named specialists in the chat (Leads, Marketing, Analyst) that you bring into any thread with @name or talk to in their own thread from the sidebar. Same agent and tools as the assistant, their own voice and focus.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

The chat has bots next to people. The **Opportunity finder** finds venues,
labels, studios and trips with the people to reach, and works your leads.
**Marketing** plans release weeks and posts. **Analyst** answers with your
numbers. The **Bot maker** designs a new bot with you in a conversation and
sets it up.

Type `@Opportunity finder` in any chat, or open a bot from **Bots** at the
top of the chat sidebar. An empty thread shows the bot's starters.

Make your own with **+** next to Bots: a name, a colour, what it does, what
it **can do** (skills), how it **writes** (tone, length, emoji, language)
and up to four starters. Every bot can read your tracks, artists, contacts
and shows. Skills let a bot act: running the opportunity scout needs the
Max plan.

Bring your own model keys (team AI keys, or an organisation's agent keys)
and agents run on your provider account, so Aden bills less.

### Bots that run on their own [#bots-that-run-on-their-own]

Under **Runs on its own** in the bot sheet, pick when the bot works without
you: every day, every week on a day you pick, every month on a date, or
**After a bot**, which starts it as soon as another of your bots finishes and
hands it that bot's reply. Analyst can report every Monday and Marketing can
turn the report into posts right after. Each run lands in your thread with
the bot and notifies you. Needs the Max plan.

You can also ask a bot in chat: "run every Friday and sum up the week", or
"have Marketing run after you". Bots read what other bots told you before,
so Marketing can build on Analyst's last report instead of starting over.