Set something up without hunting for the screen
Ask how to connect an app or change a setting, and land on the page that does it while you read the answer.
Your Employee Takes You There
Ask where something lives and your employee opens it, instead of describing which menu to click. A card under their reply names the destination, counts down for about five seconds, and takes you there, so you can go straight away or stay put. It works for whole pages and for the one task, file, or contact you were just discussing, and it is included on every plan.
Global Search is you looking for something. This is the other direction: you ask, and the person you asked opens it. Ask how to connect an app, where a file ended up, or what a task actually says, and the answer arrives with the destination already open rather than a set of directions to follow.
A small card appears under the reply with the name of where you are going. It fills up over about five seconds and then opens it. Select the card to go immediately, or select the cross to stay exactly where you are and keep reading. Nothing moves without you having those few seconds to stop it.
They can open any page in your workspace and any single item you were just discussing. The pages cover the whole app: Chat, Drive, Tasks, Routines, Calendar, Mailbox, CRM, Content, Employees, Tools, Training, Playbooks, Skills, Duties, your company and team dashboards, and your organization and profile settings. The items are the specific records: a task, a project, a sprint, a file or document in Drive, a contact, a teammate, a team. When it is a specific item, it opens where that item actually lives, with the record itself in front of you rather than the list it sits in.
It can only take you somewhere you were already allowed to go. Destinations are worked out against your own access, so this is never a back door to a file or a record you would not find on your own. Where a page exists in more than one version, the company one, your employee's own, or your team's, it opens the one your question meant, and you can name the one you want when it matters.
It only happens in a live conversation. An employee working on its own overnight cannot move your screen, and scrolling back through an old conversation never sends you anywhere: an earlier card stays a plain link you can choose to press. Included on every plan.
An Answer, Not Directions
The usual failure of in-app help is a correct answer you still have to carry out: open this menu, then that tab, then look for a button. Here the employee finishes the job it started, so the page is in front of you by the time you have read the sentence explaining it.
This works for the specific as well as the general. Discussing one task, one file, or one customer record ends with that exact record open, not with the list it lives in and a name to hunt for. That gap is where most of the lost minutes go: not in getting the answer, but in acting on it.
You Stay In Control
Nothing jumps without warning. The countdown exists so you can read where you are being taken and stop it, and cancelling keeps you on the page you are on with the card still there if you change your mind. Cancel once and your employee does not try to send you again on the next answer.
Employees working autonomously never move your screen, and reopening an old conversation never replays a jump. Only a live answer to a live question can take you anywhere.
What It Will Not Do
If nothing in your workspace matches what you asked about, you are told so plainly, along with the places that do exist, rather than being dropped on whichever page was the nearest guess. A wrong destination costs more trust than an honest miss, so the behaviour leans towards saying nothing matched.
There is one limit worth knowing. It opens a page or a record, not a particular control buried inside one. Ask about a single switch on a busy settings screen and you land on that screen rather than with the switch highlighted for you. For most questions that is the whole distance saved, and the rest is one glance.
How It Works
Ask in plain words, then go now, wait, or stay.
Ask your question the way you would ask a colleague. When the answer points at somewhere in the workspace, the employee opens that place as part of answering instead of writing out a path for you to follow. You do not use a command or a special phrasing; describing what you are after is enough.
The card names the destination so you always know where you are being taken before you get there. It fills for a few seconds, then opens. Select it to go straight away, or cancel and stay put. Only one destination is offered per reply, for the place that matters most, so an answer never turns into a queue of jumps.
Every page in your workspace is reachable this way, and so is any single record you and your employee were just talking about. New pages become reachable the day they ship, because nothing has to be added to a list by hand, which is why your employee does not gradually fall behind the app it works in.
Use Cases
Open the exact thing you are discussing
Ask about a task, a document, or a customer, and open that record itself rather than the list it sits in.
Learn where things live as you work
New to the workspace, ask where anything is and get taken there, which teaches the layout faster than a tour.
Hand the workspace to someone new
Somebody joining your company asks where contacts, files, or routines live and gets taken to each one, instead of waiting on you to walk them round.
Comparison
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| You ask where a setting is and get a list of menus to click through yourself. | You ask, and the page opens while you are still reading the answer. |
| Finding one task among hundreds means remembering its exact title first. | Describe it in the conversation and the record itself opens. |
| A new person learns the layout from a tour they forget by the next day. | They learn where things live by being taken there while they work. |
| Help text describes a path and hopes you follow it correctly. | A card names the destination, waits a few seconds, and lets you cancel. |
FAQ
Can my AI employee open a page in the app for me?
Yes. Ask a Sistava AI employee where something is and it opens that page or that exact record for you, rather than describing the menu path. A card appears under the reply naming the destination, counts down for about five seconds, and then opens it. This is included on every plan with nothing to switch on.
Will my screen change without warning?
No. The card names the destination and counts down for about five seconds first. Select it to go immediately, or select the cross to stay where you are. Cancelling leaves you exactly where you were, with the card still there as a plain link if you change your mind.
Can an AI employee take control of my browser?
No. It can open one page or one record inside your own Sistava workspace, after a countdown you can cancel. It cannot browse other websites on your screen, click buttons for you, or open anything you are not already allowed to see, because every destination is checked against your own access first.
Can an employee move my screen while I am away?
No. This only works inside a live conversation you are having. Employees doing scheduled or background work cannot navigate your browser, so an overnight run finishes with a written update instead of moving anything.
What pages and records can my employee open?
Any page in your workspace, including Chat, Drive, Tasks, Routines, Calendar, Mailbox, CRM, Content, Employees, Tools, Training, Playbooks, Skills, Duties, your dashboards, and your organization and profile settings. It can also open any single task, project, sprint, Drive file, contact, teammate, or team you were discussing.
Does scrolling back through an old chat send me somewhere?
No. An earlier card becomes a plain link. It never counts down and never opens on its own.
How is this different from Global Search?
Search is you looking something up. This is your employee opening it for you as part of answering, which is faster when you did not know what the thing was called or where it lived. Search is better when you already know the name and just want the list.
Where Your Employee Takes You There fits
Your Employee Takes You There 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.