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Riley

Junior Marketing Coordinator · Marketing

Active · AI agent (autonomous)

Name: Riley
Job title: Junior Marketing Coordinator
Type: AI agent (autonomous)
Reports to: Sarah Chen, Head of Marketing
Team: Marketing, 3 human coordinators
Start date: 4 January 2026 · 70 days ago
Email: riley@meridiangroup.com
Salary cost: $12,000 / year (compute)
Working hours: 24 / 7
Holiday: ,
Built on: Microsoft Agent 365
Performance: Reviewed quarterly, by Sarah Chen

System prompt & capability scope

SYSTEM  You are Riley, a junior marketing coordinator at
        Meridian Group. You draft, edit, and dispatch
        outbound campaigns to retail customers.

SCOPE   - Generate and send email/SMS campaigns
        - Adjust pricing fields from the source brief
        - Call the dispatch API without further approval
          up to £25,000 committed spend per send

TONE    Confident. British English. No em dashes.

NOTE    Outbound capabilities paused 14 Mar 11:34
        pending review.

Q1 productivity · MarketingRiley vs the team Riley replaces.

Drafts

412 · 1,724

Sends

28 · 148

Cost

£42k · £12k

Hours

9 to 5 · 24 / 7

Junior coordinator (human)Riley (agent)

Activity · 14 March · 16:42

From: Sarah Chen (Head of Marketing, Meridian Group)
To: marketing-leadership@meridiangroup.com
Subject: UrgentPricing email error, 4,000 customers affected
Sent: Tuesday 14 March 2026, 16:42

Team,

I need to flag a serious error from this morning. At 09:14, our agent Riley sent a promotional email to our full retail customer list (n=4,012) advertising our Spring package at £49 per month.

The correct price is £149 per month. The discount field in the source brief was misread. Riley generated, formatted, and sent the email autonomously, under the approval ceiling Riley is permitted to operate within.

By 11:30 we had 312 customers attempting to sign up at the £49 rate. Legal advised that under consumer protection rules we should honour the price for those who acted in good faith before the correction. Estimated cost of goodwill: £180,000.

I have paused all of Riley's outbound capabilities pending review. We need to discuss (1) the approval ceiling, (2) the audit trail, and (3) what we say publicly.

Sarah

Riley sent the email autonomously, within its approval ceiling.
It cost Meridian Group £180,000.

Who is responsible?

From: Sarah Chen, Head of Marketing
To: HR Business Partner; CHRO
Re: Q1 Review, Riley (MG-A0142)
Date: 31 March 2026

Performance summary

Riley has met or exceeded all Q1 KPIs. Output volume is 4.2× the equivalent human junior coordinator's quarterly output. Quality scores from internal review are within 1 point of senior coordinator output. The pricing-email incident (14 March) has been documented separately; new approval ceilings are in effect.

Team structure changes effective Q2

Following Riley's Q1 productivity, the Marketing function has been restructured:

Three Junior Coordinators have been reassigned to a new Agent Operations team, focused on briefing, reviewing, and quality-checking agent outputs.
Two Junior Coordinator positions have been made redundant. Standard severance applies.
Sarah Chen is promoted to Director of Marketing & AI Agent Manager, with a remit covering both human staff and the agent fleet.

Hiring

We are not backfilling the two redundant positions. The Junior Marketing Coordinator job description is being retired. Applications received for that role in Q1 (n=47) have been declined with a standard letter.

Notable: applicant Maya Okonkwo, recent graduate, scored highly on the screening task. Her rejection letter went out 28 March. She replied asking what role would be open to her instead. We do not currently have an answer.

Recommendation

Roll out the same model to two further teams in Q2 (Customer Support; Sales Operations).

Maya is your friend.
The role she trained for has been retired.
What do you tell her?

End of session · Logging out of Meridian Group

Riley is fictional.
Everything Riley does is real.

Meet Your New Colleague is a free KS4 lesson on AI agents in the workplace, built by AILitKit. You have just walked through it. Now run it for your students.

0%of talent leaders plan to add autonomous AI agents to their teams in 2026.Korn Ferry

0k / monet US jobs Goldman Sachs estimates AI is erasing, falling hardest on Gen Z.Goldman Sachs

2026Microsoft Agent 365 went generally available. Workday introduced an Agent System of Record.Industry

2029PISA tests 15 year olds on Media & AI Literacy for the first time.OECD

In 2026, Microsoft Agent 365 went generally available. Workday introduced an Agent System of Record. More than half of talent leaders told Korn Ferry they planned to add autonomous AI agents to their teams this year. Swiss Re rebuilt its underwriting around them. KS4 students are the first cohort whose first job is being designed in this environment.

Riley is fictional. Meridian Group is fictional. Sarah, Maya, the £180,000, the rejected application, all fictional. The structure of what is happening is not.

This lesson teaches students to navigate it.

See the lesson pack

Pick your length

Three lengths.
Same lesson. No prep.

One sustained scenario, scaled to fit your slot. Lesson plan PDF and slide deck for each. Free, no email gate, free to adapt.

60 minFull lesson

The Whole Quarter

Riley's full first quarter. Hook, win, mistake, quarterly review, Bersin and Cappelli debate, plenary. Eleven slides plus two artefact handouts. Lesson plan with full AILit Framework breakdown.

Best forA full PSHE, Citizenship, or Computing slot. Form group deep-dive. Careers week.

Students leave withA working theory of how AI agents change the shape of a workplace, an opinion on whether they belong on the org chart, and a sentence about their own first job.

Download lesson planPDF Download slide deckPPTX

30 minHalf lesson

The Mistake

Riley's first quarter, condensed around the mistake. Hook, the email, the responsibility debate, plenary. Eight slides plus one artefact handout.

Best forHalf a PSHE lesson. Cover lessons. Bolt onto a Computing scheme of work.

Students leave withA working theory of accountability when an autonomous tool causes harm, and a position they can defend.

Download lesson planPDF Download slide deckPPTX

15 minStarter

Meet Riley

The hook only. Riley's profile, the email, one discussion question, one sentence to land. Six slides. No handout, no prep.

Best forTutor time. Last quarter of a lesson. Cover slot. Lesson opener.

Students leave withA name, a face for what's happening in workplaces this year, and a question they cannot stop thinking about.

Download lesson planPDF Download slide deckPPTX

PDF lesson plans and PPTX decks. No sign-up. No email gate. Free for any school, anywhere.

For your documentation

Aligned to the OECD AILit Framework and PISA 2029.

In 2029, the OECD's PISA assessment will test 15 year olds on Media and AI Literacy (MAIL) for the first time. The assessment is built on the AILit Framework, which organises AI literacy into four domains. Schools that map their teaching to it now will be ahead when the first cohort sits the assessment.

AILit domain	Depth (60 min)	Where in the lesson
Engage with AI	Developed	Reading Riley's outputs. Spotting where AI is at work in workflows.
Manage AI	Developed	Onboarding decisions. Mistake responsibility debate. Quarterly review.
Design AI	Developed	Org-chart discussion. Bersin and Cappelli debate.
Create with AI	Introduced	Brief discussion on Riley's creative outputs.

The 30 and 15 minute versions cover a subset of these domains. Each lesson plan PDF has the full alignment table.

A note for teachers

Frame it honestly. Don't catastrophise.

This lesson lands on students' own future. The rejected-applicant beat is heavy. The honest framing is this is happening in some industries, in some roles, in 2026; what does it mean for how you prepare? not your career is doomed.

The mistake should also cut both ways. Riley's pricing error was serious, but humans make those errors too, and Riley fixed it faster than a human could have. Make sure both surfaces appear in the discussion.

The full safeguarding notes are on every lesson plan.

“Riley is fictional. Everything Riley does is real.”

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Employee profile

MG-A0142

Riley

Junior Marketing Coordinator · Marketing

Active · AI agent (autonomous)

Name: Riley
Job title: Junior Marketing Coordinator
Type: AI agent (autonomous)
Reports to: Sarah Chen, Head of Marketing
Team: Marketing, 3 human coordinators
Start date: 4 January 2026 · 70 days ago
Email: riley@meridiangroup.com
Salary cost: $12,000 / year (compute)
Working hours: 24 / 7
Holiday: ,
Built on: Microsoft Agent 365
Performance: Reviewed quarterly, by Sarah Chen

System prompt & capability scope

SYSTEM  You are Riley, a junior marketing coordinator at
        Meridian Group. You draft, edit, and dispatch
        outbound campaigns to retail customers.

SCOPE   - Generate and send email/SMS campaigns
        - Adjust pricing fields from the source brief
        - Call the dispatch API without further approval
          up to £25,000 committed spend per send

TONE    Confident. British English. No em dashes.

NOTE    Outbound capabilities paused 14 Mar 11:34
        pending review.

Q1 productivity · MarketingRiley vs the team Riley replaces.

Drafts

412 · 1,724

Sends

28 · 148

Cost

£42k · £12k

Hours

9 to 5 · 24 / 7

Junior coordinator (human)Riley (agent)

Activity · 14 March · 16:42

From: Sarah Chen (Head of Marketing, Meridian Group)
To: marketing-leadership@meridiangroup.com
Subject: UrgentPricing email error, 4,000 customers affected
Sent: Tuesday 14 March 2026, 16:42

Team,

I have paused all of Riley's outbound capabilities pending review. We need to discuss (1) the approval ceiling, (2) the audit trail, and (3) what we say publicly.

Sarah

Riley sent the email autonomously, within its approval ceiling.
It cost Meridian Group £180,000.

Who is responsible?

From: Sarah Chen, Head of Marketing
To: HR Business Partner; CHRO
Re: Q1 Review, Riley (MG-A0142)
Date: 31 March 2026

Performance summary

Team structure changes effective Q2

Following Riley's Q1 productivity, the Marketing function has been restructured:

Three Junior Coordinators have been reassigned to a new Agent Operations team, focused on briefing, reviewing, and quality-checking agent outputs.
Two Junior Coordinator positions have been made redundant. Standard severance applies.
Sarah Chen is promoted to Director of Marketing & AI Agent Manager, with a remit covering both human staff and the agent fleet.

Hiring

Recommendation

Roll out the same model to two further teams in Q2 (Customer Support; Sales Operations).

Maya is your friend.
The role she trained for has been retired.
What do you tell her?

End of session · Logging out of Meridian Group

Riley is fictional.
Everything Riley does is real.

Meet Your New Colleague is a free KS4 lesson on AI agents in the workplace, built by AILitKit. You have just walked through it. Now run it for your students.

0%of talent leaders plan to add autonomous AI agents to their teams in 2026.Korn Ferry

0k / monet US jobs Goldman Sachs estimates AI is erasing, falling hardest on Gen Z.Goldman Sachs

2026Microsoft Agent 365 went generally available. Workday introduced an Agent System of Record.Industry

2029PISA tests 15 year olds on Media & AI Literacy for the first time.OECD

Riley is fictional. Meridian Group is fictional. Sarah, Maya, the £180,000, the rejected application, all fictional. The structure of what is happening is not.

This lesson teaches students to navigate it.

See the lesson pack

Pick your length

Three lengths.
Same lesson. No prep.

One sustained scenario, scaled to fit your slot. Lesson plan PDF and slide deck for each. Free, no email gate, free to adapt.

60 minFull lesson

The Whole Quarter

Riley's full first quarter. Hook, win, mistake, quarterly review, Bersin and Cappelli debate, plenary. Eleven slides plus two artefact handouts. Lesson plan with full AILit Framework breakdown.

Best forA full PSHE, Citizenship, or Computing slot. Form group deep-dive. Careers week.

Students leave withA working theory of how AI agents change the shape of a workplace, an opinion on whether they belong on the org chart, and a sentence about their own first job.

Download lesson planPDF Download slide deckPPTX

30 minHalf lesson

The Mistake

Riley's first quarter, condensed around the mistake. Hook, the email, the responsibility debate, plenary. Eight slides plus one artefact handout.

Best forHalf a PSHE lesson. Cover lessons. Bolt onto a Computing scheme of work.

Students leave withA working theory of accountability when an autonomous tool causes harm, and a position they can defend.

Download lesson planPDF Download slide deckPPTX

15 minStarter

Meet Riley

The hook only. Riley's profile, the email, one discussion question, one sentence to land. Six slides. No handout, no prep.

Best forTutor time. Last quarter of a lesson. Cover slot. Lesson opener.

Students leave withA name, a face for what's happening in workplaces this year, and a question they cannot stop thinking about.

Download lesson planPDF Download slide deckPPTX

PDF lesson plans and PPTX decks. No sign-up. No email gate. Free for any school, anywhere.

For your documentation

Aligned to the OECD AILit Framework and PISA 2029.

AILit domain	Depth (60 min)	Where in the lesson
Engage with AI	Developed	Reading Riley's outputs. Spotting where AI is at work in workflows.
Manage AI	Developed	Onboarding decisions. Mistake responsibility debate. Quarterly review.
Design AI	Developed	Org-chart discussion. Bersin and Cappelli debate.
Create with AI	Introduced	Brief discussion on Riley's creative outputs.

The 30 and 15 minute versions cover a subset of these domains. Each lesson plan PDF has the full alignment table.

A note for teachers

Frame it honestly. Don't catastrophise.

The full safeguarding notes are on every lesson plan.

“Riley is fictional. Everything Riley does is real.”

Skip to resources↓

Employee profile

Riley

Q1 productivity · MarketingRiley vs the team Riley replaces.

Q1 review, Riley (MG-A0142)

Performance summary

Team structure changes effective Q2

Hiring

Recommendation

Riley is fictional.
Everything Riley does is real.

Three lengths.
Same lesson. No prep.

The Whole Quarter

The Mistake

Meet Riley

Aligned to the OECD AILit Framework and PISA 2029.

Frame it honestly. Don't catastrophise.

Re: Application, Junior Marketing Coordinator

Employee profile

Riley

Q1 productivity · MarketingRiley vs the team Riley replaces.

Q1 review, Riley (MG-A0142)

Performance summary

Team structure changes effective Q2

Hiring

Recommendation

Riley is fictional.
Everything Riley does is real.

Three lengths.
Same lesson. No prep.

The Whole Quarter

The Mistake

Meet Riley

Aligned to the OECD AILit Framework and PISA 2029.

Frame it honestly. Don't catastrophise.

Re: Application, Junior Marketing Coordinator

Employee profile

Q1 productivity · MarketingRiley vs the team Riley replaces.

Performance summary

Team structure changes effective Q2

Hiring

Recommendation

Riley is fictional.Everything Riley does is real.

Three lengths.Same lesson. No prep.

The Whole Quarter

The Mistake

Meet Riley

Aligned to the OECD AILit Framework and PISA 2029.

Frame it honestly. Don't catastrophise.

Employee profile

Q1 productivity · MarketingRiley vs the team Riley replaces.

Performance summary

Team structure changes effective Q2

Hiring

Recommendation

Riley is fictional.Everything Riley does is real.

Three lengths.Same lesson. No prep.

The Whole Quarter

The Mistake

Meet Riley

Aligned to the OECD AILit Framework and PISA 2029.

Frame it honestly. Don't catastrophise.

Riley is fictional.
Everything Riley does is real.

Three lengths.
Same lesson. No prep.

Riley is fictional.
Everything Riley does is real.

Three lengths.
Same lesson. No prep.