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Understand Their Memory

Your AI employees remember past conversations across your whole workspace, so they get better the more your team works with them.

TL;DR

Memory is automatic. Every conversation is processed into facts and recent history, then recalled in future chats, whether with the same employee or a teammate. No setup required. Memory is shared across your workspace, not locked to one employee, and it is different from Training, which is about feeding in your own documents.

What Is Memory

Memory is your workspace's ability to recall past conversations. When someone on your team chats with an employee today about a project, and another employee is asked about it next week, that employee can recall it too. Memory tracks preferences, decisions, and facts shared in chat.

This happens automatically. Nobody configures anything, uploads files, or tells an employee to remember something. Every substantive conversation contributes.

How It Works

What Happens Details
You chat Have a normal conversation with an employee
Facts get extracted After the reply, the conversation is processed in the background and turned into facts and a stored snapshot
Future chats improve In later conversations, relevant facts and recent history are pulled in automatically before the employee replies
No setup needed Memory is on by default for every workspace

Think of it like a team of colleagues who share notes. The more the team works together, the more any one of them can pick up context someone else logged.

What Gets Remembered

Memory is selective. Not every word of every conversation is kept. Very short exchanges (like "ok, thanks") are skipped entirely, and what gets kept is the information likely to matter again.

Memory vs. Training

Two different ways your employees gain knowledge.

Memory Training
Source Past conversations Your documents (Notion, Google Docs, Slack, and other connected apps or URLs)
Setup Automatic, no action needed You connect a source and run training
Scope Workspace-wide, shared by every employee Workspace-wide, shared by every employee
Content Preferences, decisions, facts from chats Docs, wikis, emails, channel history
Updates Continuously, after every conversation When you run a new training session
Best for Personalization and continuity Domain expertise and company knowledge

Use both together. Training gives employees knowledge about your business. Memory gives them knowledge about you, your team, and how you work together.

Where to See Memory in Action

Memory Inspector (Company > Training)

The Training tab has a Memory button in its toolbar. It opens a Memory Inspector showing:

This is on the Builder plan and above.

Action Inspector (per message)

Click Inspect on an assistant message to open its Action details, which include a Memory section. It shows what was recalled to produce that specific reply: facts pulled in, whether the search was anchored to a known entity, and any recent conversation snapshots used. This deeper per-message view is on the Leader plan and above.

In Conversation

You will notice memory at work when an employee:

Turning Memory Off

Memory is on by default for the whole workspace. To turn it off, go to Settings > Technical > AI Model and toggle Advanced Memory off. With it off, every conversation starts fresh: nothing is recalled, and no new facts are extracted. Existing memory in the workspace is kept, not deleted, so turning it back on restores recall.

Tips and Tricks

Good to Know

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do I need to set up memory? A: No. Memory is on by default for every workspace. Just start chatting.

Q: Does memory work across different employees, not just one conversation? A: Yes. Memory is shared across your workspace, so a fact learned while chatting with one employee can be recalled by another.

Q: Can I clear an employee's memory? A: There is no button to selectively delete facts today. You can turn memory off for the whole workspace in Settings > Technical > AI Model, which stops new recall and ingestion, but it keeps what was already learned rather than erasing it. Terminating and re-hiring an employee does not reset memory, since memory belongs to the workspace, not the individual employee.

Q: Does memory cost credits? A: Yes, a small amount. Extracting facts after a conversation and searching for relevant ones before a reply both use background AI calls, billed like any other usage, but at a much smaller scale than the main chat reply.

Q: Is memory shared with other users in my organization? A: Yes, employees can use relevant workspace context across conversations while keeping track of who said it. A direct conversation is not treated as an announcement to everyone. When a requested answer touches something private or role-restricted, the employee protects it rather than repeating it automatically.