Pre-built hives

A hive is a team of specialist agents that work a kind of work together. Busy Bee ships with hives for the main functions of a business, so you can put one on a project without assembling it yourself — pick the one that matches the work and it comes staffed and ready.

The hives you get

• Product — builds and ships software: development, testing, code review, and security analysis.
• Sales — drives revenue and closes deals: outreach, proposals, and pipeline.
• Marketing — attracts and converts customers: campaigns, content marketing, and growth.
• Support — helps customers and resolves issues: help docs, ticket triage, and feedback analysis.
• Operations — keeps the business running: reports, process docs, and meeting summaries.
• Analytics — analyzes data and generates insights: dashboards, research, and automated reports.
• Security — secures systems and ensures compliance: vulnerability assessment, threat analysis, and code auditing.
• Content — creates and manages content: articles, documentation, research reports, and editorial reviews.
• Design — designs user experiences: UI mockups, wireframes, and interaction design.

Each hive is staffed with the specialist roles its work needs, so tasks get handed off between the right agents instead of one generalist doing everything. There's also a Claude CLI team — a full agentic development crew that runs on the Claude Code CLI with built-in coding tools — for hands-on software work.

The playbooks under each hive

In the composer, picking a hive reveals its playbooks — the ready-to-run jobs that team knows:

• Product — Build a Website · Build an App · Security Audit
• Sales — Sales Deck Builder · Pipeline Health Report · Competitive Analysis · Battlecards & One-Pagers
• Marketing — Campaign Brief · Blog / SEO Article · Social Media Campaign
• Content & Design — Build a Slideshow · Write Content · Write a Poem
• Research — Deep Research
• Support — Help Center / FAQ · Ticket Triage & Responses · Feedback Clustering
• Operations — Meeting Summary · SOP / Process Doc · Recurring Report
• Tools — Check Status · Schedule a Task

A Featured view surfaces the most-used playbooks across all hives, and many playbooks drill down further — sub-options and starter prompts — covered in Using playbooks.

Picking a hive

When you start a project, describe the work and Busy Bee recommends the hives that fit — accept the suggestion or choose yourself. You can assign more than one hive to a project when the work spans functions.

Quality tiers

Every role agent comes in Budget, Standard, and Premium tiers, trading speed and cost against output quality — so the same hive can run cheap and fast or slow and thorough.

Where it fits

• Understand the model in Hives.
• Assemble a custom team in Building your own.
• Give a hive a repeatable process with Playbooks.
• See hives at work across Projects.