If you haven't hired any characters and try to complete a task, you should get a reminder about that

[efortuna]

If you haven't hired anyone and you try to assign people to a task, you just get a blank white screen. Might be helpful for there to be some text there that says somethign like "hire some teammates to complete this task!"

[luigi-rosso]

Closing some of these out, re-open as necessary!