How Notion Built the Best AI Agents For Work (Full Tutorial) | Akshay & Ryan
Akshay and Ryan are Notion’s co-founder and AI lead. Everyone calls their AI product an “agent” but Notion’s agents actually live up to the hype. It took them 2 years of failure to build agents that can create databases, respond to Slack, and more. We had a great chat about their most surprising lessons from building the best AI agents for work.
We talked about:
(00:00) What it really took to build agents that actually work
(01:38) Live demo: Watch a database build itself in real-time
(04:56) How Akshay writes docs by just talking to AI 90% of the time
(20:15) The real difference between AI slop and useful AI agents
(34:43) Personalizing agents with custom memory and instructions
(39:59) Live demo: Building a custom Notion agent for Slack
(49:03) What Notion looks for when hiring AI-native builders
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