Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents

Productivity bundle 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 customized AI agents, connects with outer agents, and allows teams to physique automated multi-step workflows that tin propulsion successful information from immoderate database.

By gathering an orchestration furniture — a strategy that coordinates AI enactment crossed aggregate tools and information sources — Notion is positioning itself arsenic much than a note-taker with AI features and alternatively arsenic a hub wherever radical and agents tin collaborate crossed tools and databases.

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

However, these agents had limitations. They couldn’t link with outer information oregon usage customized logic. External agents that companies utilized besides didn’t person a mode to link with the Notion workspace. Teams had to enactment astir these problems by utilizing third-party automation platforms oregon penning their ain scripts that tally connected their ain infrastructure.

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

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Now, Notion volition let teams to deploy their ain customized code. With its caller Workers, Notion’s cloud-based situation for moving customized code, customers tin constitute their logic and deploy it to a unafraid sandbox (an isolated situation that keeps the codification from interfering with different systems). This allows teams to bash things similar sync their information into Notion, physique customized tools, and trigger enactment with 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 adjacent person to constitute the code. The institution points retired that your preferred AI coding cause tin bash it for you.

The Workers volition usage the aforesaid recognition strategy arsenic Custom Agents, but Notion is making this escaped done August, truthful developers tin experiment.

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

Zhao noted that this means that Notion's users tin present "use your Notion database arsenic a sheer canvas to powerfulness some your workflows and your agents."

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Workers tin besides physique cause tools with customized logic, for those times erstwhile connecting with a third-party via MCP -- abbreviated for Model Context Protocol, an emerging modular that lets AI tools link to outer information and services -- isn't enough.

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

There's an External Agent API, too, if teams privation to link their ain interior agents with Notion, similar those they've built specifically for their company's needs.

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Developers and agents interact with 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 vie with different workflow automation platforms. As businesses progressively look to automate cognition enactment and physique interior AI systems, a level that ties unneurotic agents, customized code, and unrecorded information successful 1 spot starts to look little similar a productivity app and much similar halfway infrastructure.

It besides follows the broader inclination among AI companies, which person been moving beyond the AI chatbot to connection agentic tools that tin instrumentality actions crossed antithetic bundle platforms.

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