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Applies to v3.6.1Reviewed 2026-04-20

Meet Chiro and your EA

Achiral AI is a privacy-first collaborative AI platform for businesses, built on enterprise-grade, self-hosted, compliance-ready infrastructure. Your workspace comes with two kinds of assistants by default, and knowing when to chat with which is the single most useful thing to learn.

The one-sentence difference​

  • Chiro is your organization's shared assistant. Everyone in your workspace chats with the same Chiro.
  • Your EA (Executive Assistant) is your personal assistant. Only you chat with it. You choose its name during onboarding — either type any name you like or pick one of the suggested names (Alex, Jordan, Taylor, Morgan, Casey, Riley).

Hiver's team, for example, has one Hiver's Chiro (the org-wide assistant) and one personal EA per person. Dr. Lana might chat with Casey; her office manager might chat with Jordan; the back-office billing lead might chat with Quinn.

Where to find each one​

Both live in the Assistants row of the Assemble Team panel:

  • Your EA is always the first tile, labeled Your EA underneath.
  • Chiro is a standalone tile — the only one in the Assistants row that's not paired with a specific teammate above it in the People row.
  • Your teammates' personal EAs fill the rest of the row, each labeled [Name]'s EA.

What each one knows​

Your EA knows about you​

  • Messages and documents you've shared privately with it.
  • Your preferences, working patterns, and any fine-tuning you've given it.
  • What you have done on the connected tools (your inbox, your calendar, the tickets assigned to you, the Linear issues you own).
  • Today's Brief is generated by your EA, not by Chiro.

Your EA does not automatically read your teammates' private conversations or their personal notes.

Chiro knows about the organization​

  • Organization-wide documents, policies, and knowledge your admin has uploaded.
  • Anything your team has published to shared channels, shared drives, or team-wide tools.
  • Summaries of organizational activity (what's stalled, who owns what, what's overdue) when workflow intelligence is enabled.

Chiro does not automatically read your private conversations with your EA. That separation is by design.

How to use each one​

Chat with your EA​

  1. In Assemble Team → Assistants row, click the tile labeled Your EA.
  2. Type your question in the chat panel. Press Enter or Cmd/Ctrl + Enter to send.

Use your EA for:

  • Drafting a personal email or message.
  • Summarizing a document you uploaded.
  • "What's on my plate today?" and follow-ups.
  • Prepping for a meeting you're attending.
  • Remembering preferences ("I always cc my ops lead on client emails").

Chat with Chiro​

  1. In Assemble Team → Assistants row, click the standalone Chiro tile (the one without a person paired above it).
  2. Type your question.

Use Chiro for:

  • Company policies ("What's our PTO policy?").
  • Cross-team context ("Who owns the Q2 onboarding rollout?").
  • Organizational decisions ("What did we decide about refunds last month?").
  • Onboarding ("How does our team handle new hires?").
  • Summaries that span multiple people's work.

Chat with a teammate's EA​

You can bring a teammate's EA into a conversation, but only the teammate themselves can open a private chat with their own EA. If you bring Jordan's EA into a group chat, the EA participates in that conversation only — it doesn't spill Jordan's private data into the room.

  1. In Assemble Team, click the teammate's tile (People row) and their EA tile (Assistants row, directly below).
  2. Send your message. All three of you — you, the teammate, their EA — see the conversation.

Chat with a mix​

Select any combination. A conversation with you, your EA, your teammate, and their EA is a common pattern for coordinated work.

What to expect​

  • Voice and feel. Chiro answers in an org-wide voice. Your EA learns your preferences over time and adapts (tone, formality, length).
  • Avatars. Chiro uses a distinctive animated avatar (flowing cyan/blue/purple). Personal EAs use a clean monochrome avatar so you can tell them apart at a glance.
  • Names. You choose your EA's name during onboarding: type any name, or pick from six suggestions (Alex, Jordan, Taylor, Morgan, Casey, Riley). The name cannot be changed after provisioning.
  • Separation. Switching between a Chiro chat and an EA chat keeps both conversations separate. Each has its own history.

Common questions​

Why two assistants? Why not just one?

Because the jobs are genuinely different. Chiro needs to know about the whole organization; your EA needs to know about you. Mixing them would either leak your private context to everyone or starve org-wide questions of the right context.

Can my manager see what I say to my EA?

No. Conversations between you and your personal EA are private to you. Your organization's admin can disable an EA or adjust its capabilities, but they can't read its private conversations.

Can I change my EA's name?

No. The name is set during onboarding and cannot be changed after your EA is provisioned.

Does Chiro learn from my private EA conversations?

No. Private conversations with your EA don't feed Chiro's organizational knowledge unless you explicitly share a document or decision to the org-wide knowledge base.

What if I only want one assistant?

You can stop using either. Admins can also disable personal EAs for the organization (some compliance setups prefer this). In that case, everyone chats with Chiro only.

Reviewed 2026-04-20 for Achiral AI v3.6.1.