Notion’s new AI agents can research, write, and run your team’s workflows

The collaborative productivity application Notion is getting a boost in AI power.

Instead of simply answering questions and offering basic assistance, a built-in AI tool called Notion Agent will now be able to conduct research, draft detailed documents, and set up or update custom Notion databases on demand.

“Essentially, it can do everything that humans can do inside Notion,” says Notion cofounder and COO Akshay Kothari.

In a demo for Fast Company, Kothari showed how Notion Agent could pull user feedback on a new product from multiple sources, generating a well-cited report with recommendations for future updates. It could also create a database of articles from a news site. The software can handle operations like assigning tasks to team members at the start of a new project or updatin