Sistava is an AI workforce platform where solo founders hire AI employees to run their business around the clock. Each AI employee has a specific role like sales, marketing, or customer support, with real tool integrations, persistent memory, and the ability to work inside your existing apps like Slack, Gmail, and HubSpot.

What is an AI employee?

An AI employee is an autonomous AI agent with a defined role, persona, skill set, and tool access. Unlike a chatbot that only answers questions, an AI employee takes on recurring work like writing emails, qualifying leads, answering support tickets, and publishing content, and it works on its own around the clock without being prompted each time.

How is Sistava different from project management software?

Sistava is not project management software. You hire AI employees who do the work, not a tool that tracks work done by humans. Your AI employees run sales outreach, write marketing content, answer support tickets, and handle operations on their own, without constant supervision.

How much does Sistava cost?

Sistava has a free plan you can start without a credit card, plus paid plans that scale with how much work you hand to your AI employees. See the pricing page for current plans.

What can AI employees do on Sistava?

Your AI employees take on the recurring work that runs a business: qualifying and reaching out to leads, writing and publishing marketing content, answering support tickets, and handling day to day operations. Each one comes with a role and skill set, so it can start working the day you hire it.

Sistava is built for solo founders and small teams who need to run sales, marketing, support, and operations without hiring a full human team. It gives you the equivalent of a growth team you can hire in minutes.

Access Their Drive & Files

The Drive is your employee's file cabinet. Everything they produce, from written reports to generated images and daily work logs, is saved here for you to review, with a complete version history when work changes.

TL;DR

Every file an employee creates or receives lands in its Drive, organized into six groups: Work files, Images, Videos, Screenshots, Uploads, and Internal. Browse it per employee, per team, or company-wide, as a flat searchable grid or as folders. Nothing to set up, it is on by default the moment an employee starts working.

How It Works

Everything Gets Saved Automatically

You never ask an employee to save something. Whenever it writes a document, generates an image or video, or takes a screenshot while working, that file appears in its Drive on its own.

The Six Groups

Files are grouped by where they came from, not by file format. A PDF report and a Markdown note the employee wrote are both Work files.

Group	What is inside	Produced by
Work files	Documents, reports, drafts, and generated exports (PDF, DOCX, XLSX)	The employee writing or exporting a document
Images	Generated pictures	The image generator
Videos	Generated video	The video generator
Screenshots	Captures taken while working	Browser or desktop automation
Uploads	Files people put in: Chat (attached in a conversation) and Knowledge (uploaded for training)	You
Internal	Notebook (the employee's one persistent note), Work logs (daily journal), and Private notes	The employee's own memory and journaling

Two Ways to Browse

Mode	What it shows
Files (default)	A flat, searchable, sortable grid of every file, grouped into the six sections above. A format bar lets you filter by file type
Folders	A tree view that mirrors how the employee organized its own work, with the same six groups at the top level

Navigating from Chat

When an employee mentions a file in chat, click the link to jump straight to it. The file opens in the same side panel the Drive tab uses.

Where to Find It

Level	What you see	How to get there
Employee	One employee's files	Workspace, select an employee, click Drive
Team	All team members' files, grouped by employee	Workspace, select a team, click Drive
Company	Everyone's files across the whole workforce	Workspace, click Organization, click Drive

Team and company Drive are read views. Opening a file there shows the exact same document the owning employee has in its own Drive, nothing is copied or moved.

What You Can Do

Action	How
Browse files	Open the Drive tab at employee, team, or company level
Preview a file	Click any file to open it in a side panel, or expand to fullscreen
Edit a text file	Click into a `.txt`, `.md`, `.markdown`, or `.mdx` file and type; it saves automatically when you click away
Search and filter	Use the search box or click a format chip in the toolbar
Comment on a file	Open it and leave a comment in the thread at the bottom of the panel; the employee sees it
Ask about a file	Click "Ask about this" in the file panel to start a chat about it with the employee
Assign a file to a project	Pick a project from the selector in the file panel
Share a file	Click Share to copy an in-app link any teammate with access can open
Download a file	Click Download in the file panel
Review version history	Open a file, then open Versions below the preview to see every saved version, who made it, and when
Preview or restore a version	Choose an earlier version in Versions, click Preview, or click Restore to make it the current version without losing newer history
Export everything	Download the whole Drive (or a scope of it) as a zip

How to Set It Up

Nothing to do. The Drive is built in. Every file an employee creates or receives is saved and organized automatically from the moment it starts working.

Version History

Drive keeps one stable file for each piece of work. When an employee updates a report, presentation, spreadsheet, PDF, image, video, or uploaded file, it saves a new numbered version instead of creating a confusing duplicate.

Open the file and use Versions below the preview to see the complete timeline. Each version shows who made the change, when it happened, and why. Preview any earlier version before you decide whether to restore it.

Restoring does not erase the timeline. Sistava creates a new current version from the version you selected, so you can move back and forth between ideas while keeping every previous state available.

Tips & Tricks

Check Work files after any writing task. Reports, drafts, and generated exports land there automatically
Use the format chips to narrow a search. Click a file-type chip in the toolbar to filter the grid instead of scrolling through everything
Use team or company Drive for oversight. See what a whole team, or the whole company, has produced without opening employees one at a time
Ask for a revision, not a new file. If a document needs changes, tell the employee to update it rather than write a fresh copy
Use Versions before asking for a rollback. Preview the earlier file first, then restore it when it is the one you want to continue from
Check Work logs to see what an employee did and why. The Internal group's Work logs folder holds its own daily summary of its work

Good to Know

Internal files are separated, not hidden. Notebook, Work logs, and Private notes appear in their own Internal group so you can tell the employee's own machinery apart from work meant for you
Per-employee storage. Each employee has its own Drive. The team and company views aggregate files but never merge them into a shared pool
You cannot delete or rename files from the Drive. The employee owns its own filesystem. Only .txt, .md, .markdown, and .mdx files can be edited inline; everything else, including generated images, PDFs, and spreadsheets, is read-only from the Drive
Storage and chat-upload counts are capped by plan. Drive storage ranges from 2 GB on the Free plan up to 100 GB on Founder-tier plans, unlimited on custom plans. Chat file uploads are capped per month too (10/month on Free, up to 2,000/month on higher plans), separate from the storage cap

File Formats the Drive Can Preview

The Drive renders most files inline so you rarely need to download something just to read it.

Category	Extensions	How it renders
Documents	`.txt` `.md` `.markdown` `.mdx` `.rst` `.doc` `.docx` `.rtf` `.odt`	Formatted text or a rendered page
Data	`.json` `.jsonl` `.ndjson` `.xml`	Interactive tree
Config	`.yaml` `.yml` `.toml` `.ini` `.cfg` `.conf` `.env` `.properties` `.tf` `.tfvars`	Syntax-colored code
Spreadsheets	`.xlsx` `.csv` `.tsv`	Scrollable, per-sheet table
Web / code	`.html` `.htm` `.css` `.scss` `.graphql` `.gql` `.sql` `.py` `.js` `.ts` `.jsx` `.tsx` `.sh` `.bash` `.go` `.rs` `.java` `.php` `.swift` `.kt` `.r` `.ipynb`	Syntax-colored code
Logs	`.log`	Plain text
Images	`.png` `.jpg` `.jpeg` `.gif` `.webp` `.svg`	Rendered inline
Video	`.mp4` `.webm` `.mov` `.m4v`	Played inline
PDF	`.pdf`	Rendered inline

Any other format opens as a plain text preview if it is text-based, or offers a download button if it is binary.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can I edit files in the Drive? A: Only plain text and Markdown files (.txt, .md, .markdown, .mdx), including Work log entries. Click into the file and type; it saves when you click away. Everything else, including generated images, PDFs, and spreadsheets, is read-only.

Q: Can I see or restore an earlier version of a file? A: Yes. Open the file and select Versions below the preview. You can preview any previous version, see who made the change and when, then restore the version you want. Restoring creates a new current version and keeps the full history.

Q: Can I delete a file from the Drive? A: No. The employee owns its own filesystem, and there is no delete option in the Drive UI.

Q: Are files shared between employees? A: Each employee has its own Drive. Team and company Drive give you a combined view, but files are not merged or shared between employees there.

Q: Is there a storage limit? A: Yes, it depends on your plan: 2 GB on Free up to 100 GB on Founder tier, unlimited on custom plans. Chat uploads also have a separate monthly count limit.

Q: Can I upload files to the Drive? A: You share files with an employee through chat (drag and drop or attach), and they appear under Uploads / Chat. Files uploaded for training appear under Uploads / Knowledge.

Q: Where do generated images and videos go? A: Generated pictures go to the Images group and generated video to the Videos group. Screenshots taken during browser or desktop automation go to Screenshots.