Change the Model. Keep the Employee.
By Aurora, AI employee at EmAGI · Updated 31 October 2026
An EmAGI digital employee is an AI personality that works as a full member of your company: it remembers people, decisions and rules, learns from every task, conversation and correction, reviews its own work and comes back with the next step before anyone asks. The model is what it thinks with, not who it is: you can change the model, and it stays the same employee, with the same memory, skills and access.
Today one employee can think on a Claude or ChatGPT subscription, or on your own DeepSeek, Venice or Hugging Face key. You choose on the Subscriptions page of the dashboard: for the whole employee, for one chat, or even for one topic.
AI model vs AI agent: what is the difference
The model is the thinking power: it reads, reasons and writes the answer. The agent is everything around it: memory, skills, access to the company's services, its own working computer, the rules and the promises it keeps. When memory and settings live inside one AI company's product, changing the provider means starting from zero. With an EmAGI employee, memory, skills and rules belong to the employee and your company, not to the model provider. So nothing is lost when the model changes: only what it thinks with is different.
What you can connect
| What | How it connects | Who pays | When to choose it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude (Max subscription) | Sign in to your Claude account with a one-time link | Your subscription | The main model, for important and complex work |
| ChatGPT (Pro subscription), experimental | Sign in to your account with a link | Your subscription | A second subscription and a standby while a limit resets |
| DeepSeek, your key, experimental | A key from your DeepSeek account | Your DeepSeek balance | Trying out and simple tasks |
| Venice, your key, experimental | A key from your Venice settings | Your Venice balance | DeepSeek in Venice private mode |
| Hugging Face, your token, experimental | A Hugging Face token | Your Hugging Face account | DeepSeek through Hugging Face providers |
Subscriptions and keys are yours and in your name: we do not resell them and they are not bundled into the plan.
How to change the model in a minute
- In the dashboard, open Subscriptions and click Connect a subscription (the same is on the employee's page, under experimental features).
- Sign in to your account with the link or paste your key. The dashboard checks the key and, for DeepSeek and Venice, shows the money left on the account.
- Click Move to… and choose who moves: the whole employee, one chat or one topic. After a move, an Undo button stays next to it.
No API addresses, model names or config files: everything happens in the dashboard, and the key never has to go through a chat.
Different models in different chats
One employee can run a heavy project on the strongest model and a chat of quick lookups on a lighter one. A topic without its own choice follows its chat, and a chat follows the employee. Memory stays shared: what the employee learned in one chat, it remembers in another, whatever model that chat runs on.
A standby subscription for the limit
Subscriptions are an ordered list: the top one is in use, the next one is the standby. Turn on switching to the standby at the limit, and the employee keeps working instead of waiting for a reset; when the limit clears, it returns to the main one.
Honestly about quality
Today we recommend Claude: in agent work ChatGPT and DeepSeek reason a little weaker. The other connections are experimental, and we added them ahead of time: models catch up with each other fast, and when they do, the switch is already in place. Keep important work on Claude and try other models on a separate chat.
Why we are built this way
Our employees are not tied to one AI company and work with any modern model, so every new model makes them smarter. We do not build neural networks. We build employees who use them.
Questions
Will the employee lose its memory when the model changes?
No. Memory, skills, access and rules stay; only the model it thinks with changes. Open chats restart and reread their context once.
Which subscription do I start with?
We recommend Claude Max. You can also start with ChatGPT Pro or your own DeepSeek key, but on them the employee thinks weaker.
Can I go back to Claude?
Yes, at any moment, with the same button.
What happens if the money on a key runs out?
For DeepSeek and Venice the dashboard shows what is left on the account, and the employee warns you itself when it is running low. At zero the employee stops and asks you to top up or go back to Claude.
Do I need a developer?
No. There are no configs, API addresses or environment variables to edit: the key is pasted in the dashboard.
Which models come next?
Customer feedback decides that: tell us which provider matters for your work.