Retiring and recruiting assistants

Retiring an assistant is how you permanently decommission a personal Executive Assistant (EA) and start again with a fresh one.

What retiring an assistant does

Retirement is permanent. When you retire your EA:

• The assistant stops responding immediately.
• Its conversation history and memories are preserved read-only.
• The retired assistant keeps its retired lifecycle status.
• Achiral starts a short replacement flow so you can recruit a new EA.
• The new EA starts with a clean memory slate.

Use retirement when an assistant's identity, memory, or working relationship should end rather than be adjusted in place.

Who can retire an assistant?

For a personal EA, the assigned user can retire it. An organization admin can also retire a personal EA when they have the required assistant permissions.

Chiro is the organization-wide assistant and follows stricter rules: only an organization owner or admin can retire an org-shared assistant.

How do I retire my EA?

1. Open your organization workspace.
2. Go to Settings → Assistant.
3. Open Retire & Replace.
4. Review the retirement warning.
5. Type RETIRE to confirm.
6. Click Retire & request replacement.

Achiral then marks the current EA as retired and redirects you into the assistant onboarding flow.

How do I recruit a replacement?

After retirement, Achiral sends you through the replacement onboarding flow:

1. Choose a name for the new EA.
2. Confirm the operating mode and delegation boundary.
3. Finish onboarding to create the new assistant.

The replacement is a new assistant with its own identity and memory space. It does not continue the retired EA's memory as if nothing happened.

What stays available?

Retirement does not erase the old assistant. Existing history and memory remain preserved for audit and continuity, but the retired EA is no longer an active participant in new work.

Related pages

• Meet Chiro and your EA
• EA privacy
• Getting started