Keep your bank or invoicing portal one click away
Add your bank, payment processor, or invoicing dashboard as a row in the sidebar so checking a balance or a payment status doesn't mean leaving the workspace and hunting for the right browser tab.
Embedded Apps
Paste any website's link and it shows up as its own row in your workspace nav. Click it and the tool renders right there, inside the workspace, no new tab, no bouncing between browser windows to get your work done.
Every business runs on a handful of outside tools, a bank, a scheduling app, an internal dashboard, that don't live inside any AI platform. Embedded Apps lets you bring them in anyway: click Add App, paste the link, and it shows up as its own row in the sidebar with the site's real name and icon fetched automatically.
The name comes from the site's domain, not its page title, so a bank login page that renders as "Sign In" still shows up in your sidebar as your-bank.com, something you actually recognise. Add the same domain twice and the second row gets a number after it so the two stay distinguishable. You can rename either one afterwards.
Click the row and the tool renders right there inside the workspace, not a new browser tab you have to find again. The check for whether a site allows this happens once, at the moment you add it: the workspace reads the site's own X-Frame-Options and Content-Security-Policy headers, the same signal a browser uses to refuse framing but with no visible error to catch client-side. Miss that signal and a click just opens a dead frame with no explanation, so the workspace reads it up front and remembers the answer.
This is what makes the workspace a real home base instead of one more tab among dozens: your AI employees, your tasks, and the outside tools you actually run your business on all live in the same place, instead of your day being split between the platform and a row of browser tabs.
Your Other Tools, One Click Away
The workspace nav becomes a home base for everything you actually use, not just what the platform built. A bank portal, a scheduling tool, an internal wiki, anything with a URL can sit alongside your employees and your task board.
Adding one takes a link and nothing else. The name and icon are fetched from the site automatically, so the row looks native to the nav, not like a bookmark you pasted in. Every URL is checked against a public-address allowlist before it's ever fetched, and every redirect it follows is re-checked the same way, so a link can't be used to probe an internal address.
Honest When a Site Won't Cooperate
Some sites, banks, social platforms, and most business SaaS among them, block being displayed inside another page as a security measure of their own. Rather than showing a blank or broken frame, the workspace tells you directly and offers a one-click new-tab fallback, so a site that can't be embedded still stays one click away.
The refusal itself never reaches the browser as a visible error, Chrome just shows a blank page with no event to catch, so the workspace has to know the answer in advance rather than discover it live. If a site's answer is unclear at add time, opening it still gets a six-second grace period: past that, a banner appears offering the new-tab link instead of leaving you staring at a frame that may never finish loading.
Your Workspace, Not the Platform's Idea of It
Every business runs on a different mix of outside tools, and the platform can't build a native integration for all of them. Embedded Apps sidesteps that entirely: if it has a URL, it belongs in your nav, no waiting on a roadmap, no integration request.
Each person can add up to 50 apps, and the list, order, names, and renames are personal: they belong to whoever added them, not the tenant, so your sidebar never changes what a teammate or an AI employee sees in theirs.
How It Works
One link in, one row in your sidebar
Click Add App and paste a URL, that's the only input the drawer asks for. The workspace fetches the site's real name and favicon in the background and validates the link is a safe, public address before it ever touches it, then adds a new row to the sidebar under your existing navigation.
Click that row later and the site loads inside the workspace in an embedded frame, so you stay on the same page instead of switching browser tabs. Drag rows to reorder them, or rename and remove any of them from the row's own menu, changes apply immediately and only for you.
The first load also checks whether the site allows itself to be shown this way. Sites like banks or social platforms often refuse it as a security policy on their end, and when that happens the workspace shows a clear message and a one-click button to open the same link in a new tab instead, no broken blank frame.
Embedded Apps are personal: they belong to the person who added them, not the tenant or the AI employees, and each person can add up to 50 before hitting the limit.
Use Cases
Pin an internal tool your AI employees can't reach
Some tools, an internal admin panel, a legacy scheduling system, a vendor's web app, have no integration and never will. If it has a URL, it can still sit right next to your employees and your task board.
Build a personal command center without touching anyone else's view
Because embedded apps belong to you, not the tenant, you can build your own row of frequently used sites, a calendar, a wiki, a status page, without changing what your teammates or employees see in their own sidebar.
FAQ
What kind of sites can I add?
Any public http or https address. Paste the link and it's added; most sites render right inside the nav.
What happens if a site refuses to be embedded?
The workspace tells you plainly and gives you a one-click button to open it in a new tab instead. The row stays in your sidebar either way.
Can I reorder or remove embedded apps?
Yes, drag to reorder, and rename or remove any of them at any time. Changes apply immediately and only to your own sidebar.
Is there a limit to how many apps I can add?
Up to 50 per person. Reorder them so the ones you open most stay at the top.
Can my AI employees open or use my embedded apps?
No. Embedded apps are a personal navigation shortcut for you, not a tool your employees can call, and adding one doesn't give an employee access to that site.
Does adding embedded apps cost credits or need a paid plan?
No. Embedded Apps is available on every plan and adding, opening, or reordering an app doesn't use credits.
Where Embedded Apps fits
Embedded Apps 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: Where your employees organize their work.
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More in Workspace
- Move a Team Member to the Bench: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.
- 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.