Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents - BERITAJA

Productivity package shaper Notion is stepping into the agentic era.

In a live-streamed product announcement on Wednesday, the company, known champion for its collaborative note-taking app, introduced a caller developer level that extends the capabilities of its civilization AI agents, connects pinch outer agents, and allows teams to build automated multi-step workflows that could propulsion successful information from immoderate database.

By building an orchestration furniture — a strategy that coordinates AI activity crossed aggregate devices and information sources — Notion is positioning itself arsenic much than a note-taker pinch AI features and alternatively arsenic a hub wherever group and agents could collaborate crossed devices and databases.

In February, Notion first launched its Custom Agents — AI teammates that grip repetitive tasks, for illustration answering often asked questions, compiling position updates, and automating workflows. Since then, Notion customers person built complete 1 cardinal agents, the institution says.

However, these agents had limitations. They couldn’t link pinch outer information aliases usage civilization logic. External agents that companies utilized besides didn’t person a measurement to link pinch the Notion workspace. Teams had to activity about these problems by utilizing third-party automation platforms aliases penning their ain scripts that tally connected their ain infrastructure.

“It’s existent that, historically, Notion hasn’t been the about developer-focused platform,” said Ivan Zhao, Notion co-founder and CEO, during the livestream. “But things are changing.”

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Now, Notion will let teams to deploy their ain civilization code. With its caller Workers, Notion’s cloud-based situation for moving civilization code, customers could constitute their logic and deploy it to a unafraid sandbox (an isolated situation that keeps the codification from interfering pinch different systems). This allows teams to do things for illustration sync their information into Notion, build civilization tools, and trigger activity pinch webhooks — which are automated signals that footwear disconnected actions erstwhile thing happens successful different app — without needing to trust connected outer infrastructure.

You don't moreover person to constitute the code. The institution points retired that your preferred AI coding supplier could do it for you.

The Workers will usage the aforesaid in installments strategy arsenic Custom Agents, but Notion is making this free done August, truthful developers could experiment.

Syncing outer information sources is besides a portion of the Notion Developer Platform. Powered by Workers, the database sync characteristic could propulsion successful information from immoderate database pinch an API. That intends you could entree information from places for illustration Salesforce, Zendesk, Postgres, and others wrong your ain Notion databases -- and support the information current.

Zhao noted that this intends that Notion's users could now "use your Notion database arsenic a sheer canvas to powerfulness some your workflows and your agents."

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Workers could besides build supplier devices pinch civilization logic, for those times erstwhile connecting pinch a third-party via MCP -- short for Model Context Protocol, an emerging modular that lets AI devices link to outer information and services -- isn't enough.

Another summation allows Notion's users to chat straight pinch outer AI agents they use, delegate them work, and way their progress, arsenic if they were 1 of Notion's ain civilization agents. At launch, Notion says that Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Decagon are supported partner agents, but it plans to adhd more.

There's an External Agent API, too, if teams want to link their ain soul agents pinch Notion, for illustration those they've built specifically for their company's needs.

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Developers and agents interact pinch Notion's caller Developer Platform via the Notion CLI, a command-line instrumentality for developers, disposable connected the company's Business and Enterprise Plans.

The Developer Platform represents a displacement successful strategy for Notion arsenic it becomes much of a programmable level than conscionable an application, mounting it up to compete pinch different workflow automation platforms. As businesses progressively look to automate knowledge activity and build soul AI systems, a level that ties together agents, civilization code, and unrecorded information successful 1 spot starts to look little for illustration a productivity app and much for illustration halfway infrastructure.

It besides follows the broader inclination among AI companies, which person been moving beyond the AI chatbot to connection agentic devices that could return actions crossed different package platforms.

"Any data, immoderate tool, immoderate supplier -- that's the large image for the Notion Developer Platform," Zhao said.