Meet Donna: The AI Chief of Staff Transforming Executive Workflows
In the modern age of business hyper-growth and information overload, scaling a company isn’t just about hiring faster — it’s about staying organized, agile, and aligned. As teams grow, leaders often find themselves buried under a mountain of tools, status update meetings, and endless Slack threads. According to the founders of Bond, Chloe Samaha and Rene Sultan, there’s a critical tipping point around 30 employees — visibility begins to erode, and by 100, chaos creeps in.
CEOs and senior executives spend countless hours each week digging for information, attending update meetings, and firefighting unexpected issues. The result? Lost productivity, delayed decisions, and missed strategic opportunities. Bond was created to tackle these very issues, replacing the traditional Chief of Staff function with a fast, tireless, and deeply integrated AI counterpart named Donna.
Who are the minds behind Bond and Donna?
Bond was co-founded in 2025 by Chloe Samaha and Rene Sultan, a dynamic duo with a bold vision of what future organizations will look like — "a handful of humans and tons of AI employees." Their combined ambition and passion for organizational efficiency and AI scalability have culminated in Donna, the AI Chief of Staff, who promises to reshape the way leaders manage teams and information.
Chloe, a designer and builder with a taste for adventure — skydiving, tennis, and guitar — brings creativity and execution. Rene, a strategic thinker and aspiring polymath, envisions a future where AI handles the operational weight of companies, letting humans focus on vision and leadership.
Their brainchild, Bond, emerged from over 2,000 interviews with executives, Chiefs of Staff, and CEOs, all of whom shared a recurring pain point: traditional knowledge management tools simply don't scale with growing businesses.
What exactly is Donna, and how does it work?
Donna is not just another analytics dashboard or chatbot — she is an embedded, AI-native Chief of Staff that integrates with the full suite of tools used by modern organizations: Slack, Jira, GitHub, Notion, Salesforce, and beyond.
Here’s how Donna operates:
- Ask Donna Anything: Think of it as ChatGPT for your company data. Need to know if a project is blocked? Who owns what task? Which sales pipeline stage needs urgent attention? Donna delivers the answer instantly, eliminating the need for Slack ping-pong or a 30-minute catch-up call.
- Presidential Brief: Every morning, Donna delivers a concise, one-page overview via Slack or email, highlighting changes, roadblocks, and top priorities. It’s a daily status update curated by AI, letting executives start their day informed without needing an all-hands meeting.
- Live Dashboard: A centralized command center that surfaces key company KPIs, real-time team capacity, project status (with owners), and upcoming deadlines — all in one place.
- Pattern Radar: Donna’s proactive monitoring engine. It scans for irregularities, alerting leaders to stalled initiatives, employee overload, customer churn spikes, and anything else that might fly under the radar.
With these features, Donna eliminates repetitive updates and meetings, freeing up 10+ hours a week for high-value strategic work.
How does Donna address the issue of "data fog"?
As companies scale, they become entangled in a web of disconnected software — CRMs, project trackers, document repositories, chat apps — all of which hoard vital data in separate silos. This phenomenon, which Bond terms "data fog," severely hampers visibility and collaboration. Executives must manually hunt for answers, coordinate across teams, and compile scattered insights — often at the cost of speed and accuracy.
Bond leverages large language models (LLMs) and vector search technology to cut through this fog. Donna indexes every relevant piece of data across integrated platforms, providing leaders with a unified interface to extract insights in real-time. No more switching between tabs. No more guessing who knows what.
This “single source of truth” becomes the executive’s superpower, helping them make faster, better-informed decisions and intervene before minor issues escalate.
Why is now the right time for AI-powered Chiefs of Staff?
According to Bond’s founders, we’re witnessing a pivotal moment in enterprise tech. Thanks to advances in AI, particularly LLMs and organizational vectorization, machines can now comprehend, synthesize, and communicate operational context at scale. This unlocks an entirely new category of AI-native employees, starting with the Chief of Staff.
The traditional Chief of Staff role requires constant context-switching, deep organizational awareness, and a strategic lens. It’s also time-consuming and expensive. Donna democratizes access to this support, making it available to every executive, whether they're leading a seed-stage startup or managing a fast-scaling unicorn.
Moreover, Bond believes AI is key to collapsing unnecessary management layers. By arming CEOs with real-time clarity and automated updates, companies can operate more leanly and scale faster, without adding middle management overhead.
How does Donna ensure data privacy and enterprise readiness?
With enterprise AI, data security is non-negotiable. Bond is acutely aware of this and has partnered with Probo, a YC-backed company, to provide robust security protocols. Donna is SOC II compliant, ensuring enterprise-grade standards for data integrity and confidentiality.
Importantly, Donna runs entirely within the customer’s infrastructure. That means no sensitive data leaves the company's internal systems. It’s a hybrid deployment that offers the power of AI without the risk of external data exposure — a crucial factor for industries like finance, healthcare, or legal services where data sensitivity is paramount.
What does the future of work look like with Donna?
Bond isn’t just building a tool — it's helping define a new category of organizational design. In the vision of Samaha and Sultan, the future company is radically lean and powered by intelligent AI collaborators. Donna is just the beginning. By removing the burden of micro-management, status checks, and tool-hopping, AI Chiefs of Staff free up human leaders to do what they do best: lead.
As more businesses adopt AI for core coordination functions, roles will evolve. Teams will become more autonomous, organizations will flatten, and the speed of innovation will accelerate dramatically.
The rise of AI employees like Donna signals the start of a paradigm shift — one where machines not only assist but actively manage operational complexity. Bond's early traction suggests that this future may not be as far off as it seems.
How can companies start using Donna?
Currently, Donna is available to CEOs and execs looking to optimize their operations and reclaim their time. Interested leaders can sign up through Bond’s early access program or request a demo to see Donna in action. As Bond expands, the team plans to roll out broader integrations, advanced analytics, and multilingual support to meet the needs of global teams.
Conclusion
Bond is not just building an AI assistant — it's rewriting the playbook for executive leadership in the AI era. With Donna, the AI Chief of Staff, executives gain clarity, speed, and confidence in their day-to-day decision-making while eliminating the noise of status updates and tool-hopping.
As organizations embrace AI-first operations, Bond stands at the forefront of this revolution, proving that the smartest hire a company can make may no longer be human.