The future of productivity may not sit across the desk from you. It may be speaking through your headset.
Leena AI has announced the launch of a new generation of artificial intelligence agents that the company is calling AI colleagues. These agents can listen, talk, and collaborate just like human team members. The goal is to reduce friction at work and eliminate repetitive tasks through natural voice conversations.
According to Leena’s chief executive Adit Jain, the company started with text-based tools but quickly recognized that voice will define the next wave of digital collaboration. He sees a world where organizational charts include both humans and AI agents, all working toward shared outcomes.
“AI colleagues are not subordinates. They are collaborators,” Jain said in an interview. “They show up in the morning, check their notes, and start executing. They even ping you when they need help.”
Unlike traditional assistants that wait for prompts, these agents are capable of initiating tasks and following through. One example: a user could be commuting or standing in line and simply say, “Leena, open a lead in Salesforce for the client I met yesterday and follow up on the tech question he had.” From there, the AI can search notes, gather context, prepare a draft email, and suggest the next steps.
Leena’s AI colleagues are powered by agentic intelligence, meaning they are programmed to pursue goals with minimal instruction while always keeping a human in the loop. That makes them especially useful for handling routine processes in sales, HR, marketing, finance, and support.
Workers have already embraced the shift. More than one third of Leena’s user interactions now happen through voice. Session lengths are averaging over seven minutes, suggesting that employees are leaning on the technology in real time as work unfolds.
The agents are also designed to feel familiar. Each one has a name, a calendar, an email address, and a Slack or Teams presence. They track their own responsibilities, follow up when needed, and resume work where they left off the previous day. Some even have favorite sports teams to add personality.
Leena is positioning this as a fundamental shift in how work gets done. Instead of automating isolated tasks, these agents handle entire workflows while adapting to context. That includes parsing emails, pulling information from systems, managing follow ups, and alerting human colleagues when judgment is required.
One executive at a Fortune 500 firm told Leena the tool could increase team productivity by as much as fifty percent in departments like HR and IT.
For busy professionals, the real benefit lies in the invisible labor being lifted. Less typing, fewer tabs, more time spent thinking strategically instead of chasing down to-dos. In a world that is moving faster every day, this new breed of AI colleague could soon be the quiet engine behind real productivity growth.