SAN FRANCISCO – Notion announced the launch of its first AI agent at the “Make with Notion” event on Thursday, marking an expansion of its productivity platform's capabilities. The new agent is designed to draw on a user’s entire repository of Notion pages and databases, automatically generating structured outputs such as meeting notes, competitor evaluation reports, and feedback landing pages.
The productivity platform detailed that the agent can create and update pages and databases, along with their associated data, properties, or views. Furthermore, users can initiate Notion agents from external platforms integrated with the service. An example provided demonstrated the agent's capacity to create a bug tracking dashboard by synthesizing information from disparate sources including Slack, email, and Google Drive.
This newly introduced agent builds upon Notion AI, a pre-existing feature focused on content search and summarization. However, the new agent leverages "agentic AI" to handle more complex, multi-step tasks. The company stated that the current version of the agent can execute tasks that span up to 20 minutes and process hundreds of pages of information.
Users are provided with options to customize the agent's behavior through a dedicated “profile” page. This page allows for instructions regarding source referencing, output style, and preferred locations for updating tasks and final results. The agent can also be instructed to "remember" key points as they are used, with these memories stored and editable on the profile page.
During demonstration videos, Notion showcased the agent's application in scenarios such as providing and implementing feedback for landing pages, constructing restaurant trackers, analyzing meeting notes, and compiling competition analysis reports. While current actions require manual triggering, Notion indicated that the ability to create customized agents that operate on a schedule or specific triggers is slated for future release. A template library for agents is also planned to offer ready-made prompts.
Over the past two years, Notion has introduced several features, including a calendar application, a Gmail client, a meeting notetaker, and an enterprise search function. These developments have provided the foundational contextual building blocks necessary for creating advanced automations. The launch positions Notion within a growing trend among enterprise knowledge and productivity platforms, with companies like Salesforce, Fireflies, and Read AI also having introduced their own agent technologies to extract and update information.
