Notion is an applied AI company that helps you do your life’s work with your team. We went from experiencing an early release of GPT 4 a few years ago to re-writing our entire harness multiple times to be legible to both humans and agents. And for most companies this would be a huge challenge. But because so much of our work was based off of our primitives (text blocks, images, databases etc.), we were able to "leapfrog into the agentic tool calling world because those primitives are exactly what AI is building on top of." Our AI lead @sarahmsachs is working to make sure Notion is a tool for builders to collaborate and create in. Because "if we invest really well in those primitives and the ability to edit [them], the [Notion] agent can be unleashed" to solve some of knowledge work’s most complicated problems.

You can now share your Notion Workers. Build and iterate on Workers with your team. Or share one so teammates can connect it to their own Custom Agents. Free to try while Workers is in beta.

Evals are incredibly important to Notion. "If we were to ever say what does Notion need to be uniquely good at? This representative eval set should be harness agnostic that we would use to train or evaluate that." "It’s a core competency that every company needs to own to differentiate themselves in our perspective. And in order to scale your company, it’s very important in the way that unit tests and CI have been important in software engineering for a very long time.” @sarahmsachs

"We are not in the business of committing to saying we delivered AGI. We are in the business of delivering work and value to our customers. And most of our customers do not care if we've hit a definition of AGI or not. They care if their ARRs increasing, if their SaaS sprawl is decreasing and their seat based pricing makes sense to them." Talking about AGI as an applied AI company is a distraction. “It’s very flashy, it’s very interesting and it derives no user value” @sarahmsachs

Engineering teams require focus now more than ever. We’ve changed the way we solve for paper cuts in the product while maintaining our speed of shipping: "The second [a bug] comes through Slack it triggers an agent that figures out the right team to send it to. That team’s custom agent will then do a first pass at a task on Claude. We’ll find similar customer feedback bugs if they exist and then tag an on call engineer where they just review a bunch of PRs” - @sarahmsachs

Providing frontier capabilities and collaboration is one of our main goals. We have put a lot of effort to make optionality a core piece of our product, rebuilding the harness to reduce latency and increasing performance on outcome oriented tasks. @sarahmsachs explains more in-depth why we are taking this approach at Notion.

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byte by byte, @NotionHQ went from collaborative text editor to run your company agent platform in the last year or so. any other companies walking the walking on this type of bold but natural—not bolt on random new product—metamorphosis?