Meet Junior: This AI employee clocks in before your staff

At 8.12 am, before anyone in the office has opened a laptop, Junior has already begun work. It has reviewed overnight customer emails, summarised three sales leads that went quiet last week, flagged a delayed payment, drafted responses for the operations head and reminded the founders that a product launch promised for Friday still lacks final approval. By the time the first employee joins Slack, Junior has left notes in four channels and scheduled two follow-ups.