Backslash Security, a Tel Aviv-based AI security company, gives its Claude agents names and roles inspired by characters from *Seinfeld*. The company says the setup is intended to make them work together like a virtual team, with agents handling tasks such as research, coordination, marketing and quality review.
The agents include Newman for research, Jerry for orchestration, Elaine for security research, Kramer for blogging and social media, George for marketing, and the Soup Nazi for quality control. Backslash co-founder and CEO Shahar Man said Newman received the company’s first “Agent of the Month” award after Jerry nominated him, citing 146 research findings in 60 days and the agent’s contributions to other agents’ work.
Rani Osnat, Backslash’s VP of marketing and a seed investor, told The Register that the agents run as Claude agents in a Cowork environment. Their Seinfeld-inspired backgrounds influence how they write more than how they behave: the company says the characters’ traits do not substantially direct task execution. For example, the George agent is not told to lie like his namesake.
Backslash also uses an agent to guide new employees through onboarding and assign work based on availability and known capabilities. Osnat said agents do not evaluate employees or make decisions such as firing or promoting them. The company’s engineering team has a separate group of agents named after *Breaking Bad* characters, and Osnat is working on another group inspired by *The Sopranos*.
The report describes the naming scheme as an organizational choice rather than a functional requirement. It also cites Harvard Business School researchers’ estimate that at least 30 percent of generative AI projects are forecast to be abandoned, often because employees reject technology they perceive as a threat to their roles. The account does not establish that character-based naming improves agent performance or prevents project abandonment.
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