The Gap Between Goals and Structured Work
Every team has the same problem: someone says “we need to migrate our support docs to the new knowledge base” or “launch the Q2 campaign across all channels,” and then someone else has to translate that high-level goal into a structured set of tasks. That translation step is where things break down. The goal sits in a Slack thread. The tasks end up scattered across three tools. Half the subtasks get forgotten because nobody enumerated them upfront.
This is especially painful for teams managing AI workflows. A goal like “set up automated triage for our social inbox” involves configuring recipes, setting up channel integrations, writing prompt templates, testing confidence thresholds, and creating escalation rules. The person who knows the goal often isn’t the person who knows every subtask required to achieve it.
Missions with AI Planning closes that gap.
How “Plan with AI” Works
When you create a new mission in JieGou, you’ll see a Plan with AI toggle in the New Mission modal. Turn it on, and the creation flow shifts from manual task entry to a four-step process:
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Describe your goal — Write what you want to accomplish in natural language. “Set up automated customer triage across LINE and Instagram with escalation rules for billing issues.” Be as specific or as broad as you like.
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AI generates a structured plan — JieGou’s planning model analyzes your goal and produces a set of task cards, each with a title, description, and suggested ordering. The AI draws on context from your existing recipes, workflows, and integrations to make the plan specific to your workspace.
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Preview and edit — The generated plan appears as a preview grid. You can reorder tasks, edit titles and descriptions, remove tasks that don’t apply, or add ones the AI missed. This is your plan, not the AI’s — the AI just gave you a starting point.
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Create — Hit create, and the mission is live with all its task cards ready for assignment and tracking.
The entire flow takes under a minute for goals that would normally require a 30-minute planning session. And because you preview everything before creation, you maintain full control over what actually gets created.
Active Missions on the Dashboard
Missions don’t live in a separate silo. The Inbox page dashboard now includes an Active Missions section that displays your in-progress missions as a two-column grid of cards. Each card shows the mission title, progress (e.g., “4 of 7 tasks complete”), and the next actionable task.
This means your daily starting point — the dashboard — now surfaces the strategic work alongside your operational work. You see your inbox messages, your recent actions, and your mission progress in one view. No context-switching to a separate project management tool.
The Redesigned Missions Page
The dedicated /missions page has been redesigned with a hero section and dual calls to action: create a new mission from scratch or create one with AI planning. Below the hero, three feature cards highlight the core capabilities:
- AI Planning — Describe a goal, get a structured plan
- Auto-Organization — Tasks are grouped and ordered based on dependencies and logical sequencing
- Progress Tracking — Visual progress indicators, completion percentages, and timeline views
The page serves as both a command center for existing missions and an onboarding surface for teams who haven’t used the feature yet.
Guided Tour and Onboarding
New users (and existing users who haven’t created a mission yet) are guided through a 5-step interactive tour that walks through the entire flow: opening the New Mission modal, toggling Plan with AI, writing a goal, reviewing the generated plan, and creating the mission.
The tour is non-blocking — you can dismiss it at any step and come back later. Completing it counts toward the “Create your first mission” onboarding milestone, which appears in the Getting Started checklist on the dashboard.
We’ve also added 34 new internationalization keys across 7 locales, so the entire missions experience — including the guided tour, feature cards, and AI planning interface — is fully localized from day one.
Why Missions Matter for AI Workflow Teams
Individual recipes and workflows are powerful, but they solve individual problems. Missions represent the layer above: coordinated efforts that require multiple workflows, integrations, and team members working toward a shared outcome.
Consider a real example: “Automate our entire social inbox with AI triage, template responses, and human escalation.” That’s not one workflow. It’s a mission consisting of:
- Connecting LINE, Instagram, and Messenger channels
- Creating a triage recipe with category detection
- Building message templates for common responses
- Setting up AI-suggested reply configuration
- Defining escalation rules by topic and confidence
- Testing the full pipeline with sample conversations
- Training the team on the new workflow
With AI planning, you describe that goal once, get all seven tasks generated, adjust as needed, and track progress as your team works through them. The gap between “we should do this” and “here’s the plan” shrinks from days to seconds.
Get Started
Missions with AI Planning is available now. Open your dashboard, click New Mission, toggle Plan with AI, and describe what you want to accomplish. Try it now on your dashboard.