Lead
Plans the work
Assigns tasks, routes finished work to review and writes the weekly report.
TEAM8 Basic · for Windows 10 & 11
Run your project
Run your project
with a team of Claude
and your people.
TEAM8 Basic gives a business, a launch, an event, a report or a community a team of Claude chats in everyday roles. They draft, research, plan and organise; you and your teammates review, approve and decide. It is the free edition: download TEAM8 and this is what you get, whole, with no account and no trial clock.
Free, no accountThe whole editionEvery computer you ownNo coding needed
8everyday roles, from operations to finance
7project types with their own folders and rules
0emails sent without your approval
0lines of code to write
The roles
Eight roles.
Eight roles.
One board.
Operations
Keeps it running
Processes, checklists, schedules, suppliers and orders.
Research
Finds the facts
Answers with sources, and numbers with the workings shown.
Writer
Says it well
Emails, pages, proposals and posts, in one voice.
Marketing
Gets the word out
Campaigns, the content calendar, launches and results.
Design
Makes it look right
Brand kit, graphics, slides and print specs.
Finance
Watches the money
Budgets, quotes, invoices to chase and forecasts.
Reviewer
Checks everything
Every deliverable passes review before a person approves it.
Communications
Your inbox,
Your inbox,
handled by the team
Connect Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Microsoft 365 or Slack through Claude's own connectors. The team reads what came in, drafts the replies and prepares the meetings. Nothing leaves until you approve the exact words.
- Needs you. One check sorts your mail and messages into replies, tasks, waiting and FYI, most urgent first, with the right role suggested.
- Drafts you approve. A role drafts the reply with facts from your project files. Edit it, ask for changes, approve it, then send it or put it in your Gmail drafts.
- Meetings, prepared. A one-page brief for each meeting: who's coming, what happened so far, the agenda and the decisions you need.
- Notes become tasks. Paste meeting notes and the lead files tasks with owners and due dates, and logs every decision.
- Safe by design. TEAM8 never holds your passwords. Checks can only read; sending uses one tool, once, for one approved message, and every send is logged on the board.
CommunicationsWhat needs you, the drafts to approve and what's coming up.
How it works
People decide
People decide
what leaves the team
01
Open your folder
A new folder or one you already use, even inside Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox. Pick the project type and the apps TEAM8 found.
02
Chats draft
Roles write, research and prepare, then post DONE. The reviewer checks every deliverable and posts REVIEW.
03
You approve
Nothing is emailed, posted, paid, signed or deleted without an APPROVED post from you or your approver.
What's inside
Everything a busy project needs.
Everything a busy project needs.
Nothing technical.
01
Project types
General, business operations, marketing, website or store, event or launch, research or report, community or nonprofit.
02
Your apps and files
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs and Sheets, PDFs, design files and cloud folders, each with rules so Claude handles them safely.
03
Communications
Email, calendar, shared files and chat through Claude connectors, with drafts you approve.
04
Social with Scout
A researcher that reads the web, writes the post, finds the hashtags, plans the week and looks back at what worked. You approve and publish.
05
Approvals
REVIEW, APPROVED and DECISION posts, from the chats and from you, on one board.
06
Tasks and a plan
A tracker for tasks and a roadmap with milestones, owners and progress.
07
Weekly report
The lead writes what got done, what's stuck and what's next.
08
Research with sources
Studies land in the project with sources and workings, ready for the writer.
08
Token Saver
Command output trimmed before Claude reads it, so your plan goes further.
10
Costs you can see
What each role used today and this month, and your plan's limits.
11
Safety rules
No passwords or card numbers in files, personal data kept in its own system, legal and tax questions flagged for a professional.
12
Light and calm
Green and white, in a capsule window or a standard one.
13
Plain files
The board, tasks and plan are simple files in your folder. Stop using TEAM8 and keep every word.
A look inside
Real screens.
Real screens.
A real bakery.
From the current TEAM8 Basic, running a demo bakery's open day.
Token Saver · in every edition
Same work.
Same work.
Fewer tokens.
When a chat opens a spreadsheet export, converts a document or searches your folders, the output comes back as text it has to read. Token Saver runs those commands through RTK, which trims the noise before Claude reads it, so your Claude plan goes further.
60–90%less output on common
dev commands*
dev commands*
1switch in
Settings
Settings
0changes to how
you work
you work
- Limits go further. Less noise in each chat's context means more work before the 5-hour and weekly limits, and emptier context windows.
- Every saved token, counted. Token Usage shows what was saved in each session, each project and all time, which commands save the most, and what it's worth.
- Local and open source. RTK runs on your computer and sends nothing anywhere. TEAM8 finds it, or installs it with one command.
*RTK's published figure for common commands such as git, test runners, builds and search. Savings depend on what your chats run. Token Saver is powered by RTK (Apache-2.0), an independent open-source project not made by TEAM8.
A test run, as Claude reads it
without npm test 412 lines ≈ 6,100 tokens
with rtk npm test 3 lines ≈ 70 tokens
FAIL src/api/orders.test.ts › rejects an empty cart
expected 400, received 500 (orders.ts:88)
1 failed · 127 passed · 4.2 s
Illustration of the kind of trimming RTK does on a test run.
Freethe download itself
3computers per copy
8roles ready to seat
13 daysto ask for a refund
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You work in plain language with the roles, and TEAM8 handles the setup. You do need Claude Code installed and signed in, which TEAM8 walks you through.
How does TEAM8 get to my email?
Through the connectors in your Claude account (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Slack and others). You connect them in Claude, never in TEAM8, and TEAM8 never sees your password. It only decides what a chat may do: read and draft, and send only a message you approved.
Can Claude send an email without me?
No. Checks and drafts can't use any tool that sends. Sending happens only when you press Send on a draft you approved, and then only that one message.
Does it work with files in Google Drive or OneDrive?
Yes. Open a synced Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox folder as the project. TEAM8 recognises it and adds rules, like never deleting shared file shortcuts.
TEAM8 Basic
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A researcher
who goes and looks
Scout is the part of your team that reads the web before anyone writes a word. Send it out and it comes back with what is actually being said this week, five things you could post, the hashtags people really use — and a link and a date beside every claim. It writes the posts, you plan the week, and after they go out it looks back at what worked.
SocialScout researches, the team drafts, you approve and post.