# Employee Drive

Every document, generated image, video, screenshot, and daily work log an employee produces lands automatically in its Drive, no saving required. Browse it per employee, per team, or company-wide, as a searchable flat grid or as folders. Files preview inline, from PDFs and spreadsheets to code and video, so you rarely need to download something just to read it. Every update becomes a numbered version that you can preview or restore without losing the original file.

When your employee writes a report, drafts a blog post, compiles research, or exports data, the output goes to its personal Drive. Think of it as the employee's file cabinet. Everything it produces is saved, organized, versioned, and accessible. You browse files, preview documents, restore an earlier version, download them, or share them with teammates.

The Drive matters most for scheduled and autonomous work. When your employee runs a morning research brief at 7 AM while you are asleep, the report lands in its Drive. When it produces a weekly analytics summary, it saves both the summary and the underlying data. You open the Drive later and find everything waiting for you, organized by date and task.

Your employee references its own Drive to stay consistent. If it wrote a brand messaging document last week, it pulls from that document when writing new marketing copy. Past work informs future work. The Drive is not just storage; it is institutional memory in file form.

## Every AI Employee Gets Persistent File Storage

Drive gives each AI employee a personal file system where outputs, reports, drafts, and research are saved automatically. Every scheduled run, every completed task, every generated document lands somewhere permanent and browsable. Nothing disappears after the conversation ends.

You can navigate Drive just like a file explorer: folders organized by date, project, or task type. Find the competitor analysis from three weeks ago, the draft your agent wrote on Tuesday, or the summary from last month's sprint. The work is always there.

## Every File Keeps Its History

A revision changes the same Drive file, it does not leave a second copy for you to sort out. Documents, presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, videos, and uploaded files keep a numbered version history as work evolves.

Open any file to see who changed it, when they changed it, and why. Preview an earlier state before restoring it. A restore becomes the newest version, so no earlier work is overwritten or lost.

## AI Agents That Reference Their Own Work History

Most AI agents have no memory of what they produced yesterday. Sistava employees do. Drive acts as long-term working memory. When an agent starts a new task, it can pull context from files it created in previous sessions, producing work that builds on itself rather than starting from scratch every time.

This is especially valuable for recurring tasks. A weekly market report gets better over time because the agent reviews what it wrote last week, identifies gaps, and extends the analysis. Autonomous agents that learn from their own output, not just from training data.

## Team-Level Visibility Into Agent Output

Drive is not just for the agent. Managers and team members can browse any employee's Drive from the Workspace. Review what was produced, download files, or link specific documents to tasks and sprints. Full transparency into the work your AI workforce is generating.

Drive integrates with the Work Journal and Task Board. When a task completes, the output is linked to the task card and logged in the journal. Everything connected. No hunting through chat history to find what your AI agent actually delivered.

## How It Works

**Every AI employee has a personal Drive where it stores everything it creates, so output is always organized, searchable, and ready to download.**

Every file your AI agent creates lands in its Drive automatically. Reports, scraped data sets, generated images, exported spreadsheets, drafted documents. The agent organizes files into folders as it works, and every update becomes a numbered version of the same file. You browse the Drive from the workspace, preview files in the browser, restore an earlier version, and download anything with one click.

The Drive is also where scheduled tasks save their output. A weekly competitive report runs on Friday, and the PDF is in the Drive before you check in on Monday. You can also upload files to the Drive directly and the agent can read them as part of future tasks. The Drive acts as persistent shared storage between you and your AI employee, replacing the scattered email attachments and Slack files that normally pile up.

## Use Cases

### Research team stores AI-generated reports

The AI employee saves every research brief, summary, and analysis to its own Drive, organized and ready to retrieve on demand.

### Sales team maintains proposal templates

An AI agent stores, versions, and retrieves proposal files, pulling the right template for each deal without human lookup.

### Legal team archives contract drafts

The AI employee writes and stores contract versions in Drive, keeping a clear history of every edit and revision.

### Content team builds a shared asset library

AI agents deposit finished content, images, and briefs into Drive so the whole team can access and reuse them.

## Comparison

| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Agent outputs get lost in chat history or disappear. | Every file the agent creates is saved to Drive and always accessible. |
| Teams scramble to find documents the agent referenced. | Drive gives every AI employee a structured, searchable file store. |
| No version history on AI-generated documents. | Drive tracks every file version so nothing is ever lost. |
| Files are scattered across email, Slack, and local folders. | The agent keeps its files in one place, organized and retrievable. |

## FAQ

### Where are Drive files stored? Can I export them?

Drive files are stored securely within your Sistava organization. You can browse, download, and share files directly from the Drive UI. Export options are available for all file types the agent produces.

### Does the AI employee automatically save outputs to Drive?

Yes. Documents, reports, code, and other structured outputs are saved to Drive automatically at task completion. You can also ask the agent to save specific content during a conversation.

### Can the agent access Drive files from a previous session?

Yes. The AI employee can reference files it created in past sessions, which allows it to build on prior work rather than repeating research or regenerating content from scratch.

### Can I compare or restore earlier Drive file versions?

Yes. Open a Drive file and choose Versions to see every numbered version, who made it, and when. Preview an earlier version or restore it without deleting the later history.

### Is Drive storage shared across employees or isolated per employee?

Each AI employee has its own isolated Drive. Managers can view all employee Drives from the Workspace, but agents only read and write their own storage by default.

### Where does the AI agent store files it creates?

Each AI employee has a personal Drive, a private file storage space where it saves documents, exports, and work artifacts. You can browse, download, or reference those files anytime from the workspace.

> Every report my agent generates goes straight to its Drive in the right folder. I have six months of organized output with zero file management on my end.
>
> Kenji W., Chief of Staff · early-stage startup

## Where Employee Drive fits

Employee Drive is part of Where their work lives.

Your AI agents manage their own workspace. Scheduled tasks run daily, weekly, or on custom cron cadences. A built-in kanban board tracks what is in progress. Every document lands in a personal Drive. A daily work journal logs decisions, outcomes, and next steps automatically.

- [Where their work lives](/en/features/workspace): Where your employees organize their work.

## Read the guide

- [Guide: Employee Drive](/en/guide/monitor/drive)

## More in Workspace

- [Move a Team Member to the Bench](/en/features/workspace/bench_team): Every workspace has one Bench: a holding area for employees who are not currently on a working team. Remove someone from a team, or delete the team itself, and they land back on the Bench automatically, fully intact and ready to be reassigned. Nothing about them is deleted; only their team membership changes.
- [Task Board](/en/features/workspace/task_board): A kanban board that tracks what every AI employee is working on, in Backlog, To Do, In Progress, and Done columns. Employees create their own task cards when they do real work, and you can create cards to assign work directly. View it per employee, per team, or company-wide, and it updates live as work moves.
- [Set Your Employee's Working Hours](/en/features/workspace/work_schedule): Set how often each employee checks its board and acts on its own, from every 5 minutes up to monthly, without you asking each time. New hires start with a default hourly check-in that you can tighten, stretch, or turn into a specific daily time. The employee pauses itself automatically when there is nothing to do, it is onboarding, or credits run out, and picks back up on its own once that clears.
- [Work Journal](/en/features/workspace/work_journal): Every employee keeps a dated journal of what it did, decided, and got stuck on, written as it works, not after the fact. Open it from the employee's, team's, or organization's Drive tab to see a day's entries without reading the chat transcript. Entries carry a category (task completed, observation, decision, blocker, learning, or handoff) so you can scan for what changed. It starts on hire with nothing to configure.
- [Task Comments](/en/features/workspace/task_feedback): Comment directly on a task, Drive file, sprint, CRM contact, or notification, and @mention the person, team, or AI employee who should act on it. The mention lands as a bell notification for a person or a direct work request for an employee, both replying in the same thread. Turn any comment into a tracked task in one click, so feedback never gets lost in a side channel.
- [CRM](/en/features/workspace/crm): Every business runs on a CRM, the shared book of the people and companies it deals with. Sistava builds one in, and your AI employees run it for you. They add a prospect the moment one comes up, keep contacts current, open deals and move them down the pipeline as they progress, and write notes so nothing is forgotten. You get one clean place to see who you know, what's in flight, and what it's worth, without paying for a separate CRM.
- [Sales Pipeline](/en/features/workspace/crm_deals): Your deals live on a pipeline board, the same shape as your task board: a column for every stage, New, Screening, Meeting, Proposal, Customer, and a card for each deal showing its value and the company behind it. As a deal gets closer to won, it moves down the board. Your AI employees keep the pipeline current, opening deals, moving stages, and updating amounts, so you always know what's in flight and what it's worth, at a glance.
- [Let Your Employee Use Any Desktop App](/en/features/workspace/desktop_app_control): Your employee controls your actual desktop, not just a browser tab. It clicks, types, manages files, and runs terminal commands in real applications on your machine, the same way you would sitting at the keyboard. It works through the free Desktop Companion app and covers native software, file management, and shell tasks in one capability.
- [Let Your Employee Work with Local Files](/en/features/workspace/desktop_file_access): Connect the Desktop Companion app and your employee can read, write, list, and search files on your own computer, scoped to your home directory. Ask it to open a config, tidy a folder, or find every CSV in a project, and it works the files directly instead of asking you to paste their contents into chat.
- [Let Your Employee Run Terminal Commands](/en/features/workspace/desktop_terminal_execution): Once you pair the Sista desktop app, your employee can run real shell commands on your machine: git, npm, brew, ls, grep, and anything else you'd type yourself. Commands run as your own user with no privilege escalation, and a hard-coded blocklist rejects destructive patterns like rm -rf /, disk formatting, or piping a remote script into a shell before they ever execute.
- [Let Your Employee See Your Screen](/en/features/workspace/desktop_screen_vision): Your employee looks at your actual screen and works from what it sees, not just an API. It captures your desktop through the Sista desktop app, reads the pixels the same way you would, and can click, type, and scroll based on what it finds. That covers any app you have open, including native software, dashboards, and design tools that never had an integration.
- [Company Drive](/en/features/workspace/company_drive): Every employee keeps its own Drive, but you shouldn't have to open ten employees to find one file. Company Drive rolls every employee's Drive into one company-wide view: every document, transcript, and deliverable your whole workforce has produced, browsable and searchable from one tab.

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