You have probably thought about giving your team an AI teammate. What usually stops people is not the setup. It is the blank page. "Answer questions" is not a job, and it is hard to write a job description for something you have never watched work.
Viktor and Runbear both answer that with an MCP server for Claude Code, and they answer it very differently. We build Runbear, so the framing here is ours; the capabilities below are linked to their sources at the bottom.
| If this is you | Fits | Because |
| A teammate already answers in your Slack and you want your code to reach it | Viktor MCP | The agent exists. You need a door in, not a builder |
| You have no teammate yet and you are not sure what it should do | Runbear MCP | You can assemble one without deciding the whole job first |
If the second row is you, that install is one line:
claude mcp add --transport http runbear https://api.runbear.io/mcp/ccAdding the server writes one line to your client config and nothing else. The first Runbear command opens a sign-in, with no key to paste. Runbear bills for the model work a task actually uses rather than per seat: Team is $79 a month for 20,000 credits and 5 builders, Business is $319 for 100,000 and 10, with no markup on model costs. The MCP server is in early access and its tool set is still expanding.
Viktor is for teams who already know what the teammate does
Viktor is a finished AI employee that works in Slack and Teams. You hire it, and it answers your team where they already talk. Its MCP server is the door in from your own code: one ask_viktor call opens a thread, runs it, waits, and returns the answer, or you can drive those steps yourself for longer work. Thirteen tools cover that surface, a request can ask for the answer in a fixed JSON shape, and a scoped API key decides which of the thirteen your key even sees. You are using the teammate, not building it. If that is the job, Viktor MCP is the better fit and nothing below changes that.
Runbear is for people who work it out while building it
Runbear is for the person staring
at the blank page. Say the job is billing triage: decide whether an incoming message is about billing, find who owns that account, answer the easy ones and escalate the rest. You do not have to settle all four before you start. You describe the mess in Claude Code, get asked back about the parts you have not worked out, hand over any skill folders you already wrote, and say when and where it should answer. The spec and the agent get finished at the same time.
