Everything Obvious can do.
Explore every capability — from AI modes and memory to documents, automations, and integrations.
Artifacts
Templates
Project Templates let you save any project's structure as a reusable starting point. When you save a project as a template, you choose what to include: the folder structure, all artifacts, saved tasks and schedules, agent context instructions, and the project README. A new project created from that template opens fully configured — folders in place, documents ready, tasks loaded, agent instructions already active.
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Command K
One keypress, anywhere. ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux) focuses the Obvious search input from wherever you are — no matter what project is open, what document is being edited, or how deep you are in a thread. Type three characters and you're moving. Every project, every thread, every artifact is one shortcut away.
Data & Analysis
Rating Field
One click counts. Rating Field is the field type that turns a star click into a structured value — stored as an integer from 0 to 5, rendered as stars in any sheet, and immediately visible to every teammate in the row. Add it to any sheet the same way you'd add a date or a status: name the field, choose the type, and start clicking. The score appears in the cell; the data is already in the workspace.
Views
Grouped Views
One click counts. Rating Field is the field type that turns a star click into a structured value — stored as an integer from 0 to 5, rendered as stars in any sheet, and immediately visible to every teammate in the row. Add it to any sheet the same way you'd add a date or a status: name the field, choose the type, and start clicking. The score appears in the cell; the data is already in the workspace.
Agent & AI
Questions
When the Obvious agent needs information before starting meaningful work, it surfaces a Questions card in the chat window. Each question is formatted to match the kind of answer it needs — a yes/no toggle, a single-choice picker, a multiple-choice list, a 1–10 scale, an ordering interface, or a short text field. Recommended answers come pre-filled: the agent's best guess based on what it already knows. You accept, adjust, or skip the card entirely and let the agent proceed on its own assumptions.
Agent & AI
Skills
A skill tells the Obvious agent how to do something specific at a high level — a writing approach, a research workflow, a data process someone spent time figuring out. Skills load when they're relevant and stay out of the way when they're not. There's an entire ecosystem of them: communities of practitioners who've figured out remarkable things and shared them. Until now, getting those skills into Obvious required knowing your way around a terminal.
Automation
Tasks
Tasks are saved, multi-step workflows the Obvious agent executes on its own. Name the steps, configure a trigger — a daily schedule, an incoming webhook, or nothing at all for on-demand use — and the agent runs them in sequence without you. Create a task by asking the agent directly, or build one manually from the / menu in chat.
Collaboration
Read Aloud
Open any document in Obvious, tap the Read Aloud button in the toolbar, and a floating playback bar appears at the bottom of your screen. The document starts reading in a natural-sounding voice. Navigate away — check another thread, open a workbook, come back — and it keeps going. The audio doesn't stop when you leave the page.
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Folders & Tidy Up
Create folders in your project sidebar, name them, nest them, and drag artifacts in. A launch project might have a folder per deliverable. A research project might have one per source. The structure is yours — Obvious holds whatever hierarchy fits how you think. Move artifacts by dragging, right-clicking, or @mentioning a folder name directly in chat.
Agent & AI
Granola MCP
Connect Granola in Settings → Connectors and the Obvious agent gains access to your entire meeting history — notes, transcripts, action items, and decisions. Ask it to pull in the last 30 days of meetings and it reads through all of them, finds what you committed to, and maps each item to the projects already running in your workspace.
Views
Gallery Views
Turn any sheet into a visual card grid — ideal for product catalogs, content libraries, image datasets, and portfolio management. Cover images pull automatically from your records, making it easy to browse at a glance.
Agent & AI
Image Gen
You can now generate and edit images in Obvious. Describe what you need like you'd describe it to a designer: a doc cover, a slide hero, a quick product mock, a labeled diagram.
Agent & AI
API Integrations
Point Obvious at any API and it handles the authentication, builds the request, paginates through results, and returns structured data. REST, GraphQL, OAuth — describe what you want and the agent handles the plumbing.
Agent & AI
Code Sandbox
Every Obvious conversation includes a full Linux sandbox — Python, Node.js, shell, pip, npm. The agent writes code, runs it, reads the output, and iterates until it works. No setup, no environment configuration, no 'works on my machine' problems.
Agent & AI
Memory
Obvious remembers your preferences, project context, and working patterns across every conversation. User-level memory stores your style and habits. Project memory tracks schemas, decisions, and context. Workspace memory shares knowledge across your entire team.
Agent & AI
Modes
Obvious ships with six distinct agent modes: Fast for quick answers, Auto for general work, Analyst for data-heavy tasks, Deep Work for complex multi-step research, Employee for full-stack code and product work, and Autobuild for autonomous background execution.
Agent & AI
Planning
The Plan Tool is the structured view the agent shows you before any complex work begins. Before it runs a single step, you see what it understood, what it plans to do, and in what order. The plan is laid out as a reviewable card with named objectives and sequenced tasks. You can read it, adjust the direction, approve it as-is, or stop and redirect. Nothing starts until you are aligned.
Agent & AI
Subthreads
Spawn parallel subthreads from any conversation — each running an independent agent on a separate task. All threads share context from the parent, and results flow back when each completes. It's the difference between sequential work and genuine parallelism.
Agent & AI
Web Research
Search the web, fetch live pages, and pull real-time data into any task — without switching to a browser. The agent queries multiple sources, synthesizes results, and cites what it finds. Use it for competitive research, market analysis, fact-checking, or staying current on any fast-moving topic.
Artifacts
Canvases
A full Excalidraw drawing surface embedded directly in your workspace. Sketch diagrams, map workflows, wireframe interfaces, or brainstorm visually. The agent can populate canvases with structured content based on your descriptions.
Artifacts
Dashboards
Connect any workbook to a live dashboard of charts, KPIs, and summary tables. Charts update automatically when the underlying sheet data changes. Ask the agent to build the visualizations you need, then pin them to any project.
Artifacts
Documents
Obvious documents go beyond text. Embed interactive tasks, cover images, collapsible sections, charts, YouTube videos, and inline comments — all in a clean markdown editor.
Artifacts
Files & Media
Upload PDFs, images, spreadsheets, and CSVs and Obvious processes them immediately. Extract tables from PDFs, analyze images, or use uploaded files as source data for queries and transformations. Every file type becomes agent-readable.
Artifacts
Folios
Folios are beautiful, publishable web pages that Obvious builds from your content. Present work to clients, share a report with stakeholders, or publish a brief publicly — all from the same editor you use for internal documents.
Artifacts
Notes
Capture a thought, meeting note, or rough idea without ceremony. Notes are private by default, fully searchable, and can be promoted into full documents when an idea grows into something more substantial.
Artifacts
Presentations
Describe your audience and message and Obvious generates a complete slide deck — outline, headlines, speaker notes, and layout. Edit any slide with natural language or take full control in the slide editor. No template hunting required.
Artifacts
Workbooks
Workbooks organize structured data into typed sheets. Fields have types — string, number, date, enum, currency — so your data has guardrails built in.
Artifacts
iFrames
Embed any web application directly into your workspace as a full-featured artifact. Bring in Figma files, Loom videos, Airtable bases, or any URL-accessible tool — without leaving Obvious.
Automation
Background Agents
Launch agents that run entirely in the background — no open tab required. Background agents handle long-running research, large-scale data processing, and multi-hour workflows. They notify you only when something needs attention or the work is done.
Automation
Gate Approvals
Insert a human approval gate anywhere in a task. When the agent reaches the gate, it pauses, notifies the right person via Slack or email, and waits for a decision before continuing. Build fully autonomous workflows that still include human judgment exactly where it counts.
Automation
Scheduled Tasks
Schedule any task on a cron or rrule — hourly, daily, weekly, or on a custom recurrence. Tasks run in the background and notify you of results. Build the workflow once and Obvious runs it automatically, forever.
Automation
Shortcuts
Save your most-used prompts as slash-command shortcuts accessible from anywhere in the app. Type / and pick from your personal library of prompt templates. Shortcuts support variables so each run can be personalized with dynamic inputs.
Automation
Webhooks
Any inbound POST request can trigger an Obvious task. Send webhooks from Stripe, GitHub, Intercom, or any service and Obvious processes the payload and executes the right workflow. No infrastructure required.
Collaboration
Comments
Leave inline comments on any paragraph in a document or any cell in a sheet. Tag teammates to pull them into the conversation. Resolve threads when feedback has been addressed — the same review experience you'd expect in a modern code editor.
Collaboration
Notifications
Get notified when a task completes, a comment is left, or a scheduled workflow runs. Deliver notifications to Slack, email, or SMS based on rules you define. Stay informed without staying glued to a browser tab.
Collaboration
People & CRM
Search any person by name, company, or email and Obvious surfaces their CRM record, recent interactions, and context from your connected tools. Know exactly who you're working with before every meeting or message, without opening a separate app.
Collaboration
Permissions
Grant view or edit access at the workspace, project, or artifact level. Permissions cascade and can be overridden at any level. Guests can be scoped to a single document without seeing anything else in your workspace.
Collaboration
Real-time Sharing
Share any artifact — document, sheet, dashboard, or canvas — with a link. Recipients see live updates as they happen. Set view or edit permissions per person, revoke access at any time, and control whether the link is public or invite-only.
Collaboration
Team Workspaces
Create a shared workspace where your whole team's projects, memory, integrations, and shortcuts live together. Everyone on the team works from the same connected context — no more re-explaining the same background to the agent every session.
Data & Analysis
CSV & Excel Import
Drop a CSV or Excel file into any conversation and Obvious parses it, infers the schema, and creates a typed sheet. Bring in external data from any tool and it immediately becomes queryable, viewable, and agent-editable.
Data & Analysis
Data Transformation
Transform records with JavaScript map/reduce operations written by the agent. Reshape, enrich, filter, and aggregate data without writing a pipeline — describe the output you want and the agent generates the transform.
Data & Analysis
Data Validation
Mark fields as required, set type constraints, and flag out-of-range values. The agent scans sheets for data quality issues and annotates problem rows with inline explanations. Fix bad data at scale with a single instruction.
Data & Analysis
Formulas
Add calculated columns to any sheet using spreadsheet-style expressions or natural language. Formulas recalculate automatically as underlying data changes and work across joins between sheets.
Data & Analysis
Large File Processing
Process files over 100MB via direct S3 upload — no browser limits, no timeouts. The agent handles chunking, parallel processing, and result assembly. Analyze large datasets that would be impossible to open in a spreadsheet.
Data & Analysis
PDF Extraction
Upload a PDF and the agent extracts tables, lists, and key fields directly into a typed sheet. Works on contracts, invoices, research papers, and reports. Highlight any section and ask questions directly against the document content.
Data & Analysis
Ratings Field
A rating field that produces structured data
Data & Analysis
SQL Queries
Every sheet in Obvious is queryable with full DuckDB SQL. JOINs, aggregations, window functions, CTEs — the full dialect. Ask the agent to write the query, or write it yourself.
Data & Analysis
Schema Management
Add, rename, reorder, and remove fields from any sheet. Change field types, manage enum options, and update schemas across related views without breaking existing data. Schema changes propagate to all connected views instantly.
Data & Analysis
Version Control
Every change to a sheet is versioned automatically. Roll back to any previous state, compare field-by-field diffs between versions, and restore individual records without affecting the rest of the sheet.
Integrations
API Keys & Secrets
Store API keys, tokens, and credentials as named secrets in your workspace vault. Reference them by name in tasks and agent instructions — they're never exposed in prompts, logs, or shared context.
Integrations
CRM
Query and update Attio and Salesforce records from chat. Search contacts, create deals, log activity, and get AI-powered summaries of any CRM record — without opening the CRM interface.
Integrations
Calendar
Read and write Google Calendar and Outlook events from chat. Ask Obvious to schedule meetings, find open time slots, create recurring events, or summarize your agenda for the week — without switching applications.
Integrations
Read, compose, and send email from Gmail or Outlook entirely from chat. The agent triages your inbox, drafts replies in your voice, schedules follow-ups, and searches message history — without ever opening a mail client.
Integrations
File Storage
Back large files directly to S3 and process them at any scale. Upload files too large for in-browser processing, trigger transformations on new uploads, and link storage buckets directly to workbooks as live data sources.
Integrations
GitHub
Read repos, create branches, open and review pull requests, and manage issues from any conversation. The Employee mode agent uses the gh CLI to make real commits and open real PRs — not just suggest code changes.
Integrations
Meeting Notes
Connect Granola to sync meeting notes automatically into Obvious. Ask the agent to summarize decisions, extract action items, or search across past meeting transcripts. Your institutional memory, fully indexed and queryable.
Integrations
Notion
Read Notion pages and database records directly from any conversation. Pull context from your Notion workspace, query database properties, and use Notion content as input for tasks — your knowledge base, agent-readable.
Integrations
Slack
Send messages to any Slack channel, reply in threads, add reactions, and search message history — all from a single agent instruction. Trigger Obvious tasks from Slack with webhooks.
Integrations
Webhooks
Create inbound webhook endpoints that trigger Obvious tasks from any external system. Works with Stripe, GitHub, Intercom, Segment, and any service that supports outbound webhooks. Event data flows directly into task inputs.
Platform
@mentions
Type @ in the Obvious chat input and your entire workspace becomes searchable. Documents, sheets, columns, files, folders, people, skills, notes, meetings, templates — all of it. Select one and it embeds as a chip in your message. When you send, the agent receives the actual content of that item. Not its name. Not a search result. The thing itself.
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Checkpoints
Snapshot the state of any artifact at any point. Roll back a document, sheet, or canvas to a previous checkpoint in its history. Experiment freely knowing you can always recover exactly what you had before.
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Custom Modes
Create custom agent personas with specific instructions, tool access, and behavior profiles. Give your team a Sales Agent, Legal Reviewer, or Brand Voice Editor — purpose-built modes for the work your team does most.
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Developer API
Build custom integrations, automation triggers, and internal tools on top of Obvious using the REST API. Read and write artifacts, trigger tasks, manage projects, and subscribe to workspace events via webhooks from any external system.
Platform
Governance
Enforce SSO login, configure IP allowlisting, and review a complete audit log of every agent action and user change. Governance controls give IT and security teams what they need to approve Obvious for enterprise deployment.
Platform
Projects & Folders
Organize all your work into named projects and nested folders. Projects group related conversations, artifacts, tasks, and integrations. Share an entire project with teammates or keep it private — with granular control over each.
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Search
Search every conversation, document, sheet, and shortcut across your entire workspace at once. Fuzzy, semantic, and exact match search — results ranked by relevance and recency. Find anything you've ever built or discussed in seconds.
Platform
Workspace Management
Manage users, teams, billing, SSO configuration, and workspace settings from a single admin panel. Invite teammates, set default permissions, configure workspace-level integrations, and audit everything from one place.
Views
Calendar Views
Any sheet with a date column becomes a calendar in one click. See events, deadlines, and milestones by day, week, or month. Add new records directly on the calendar, and changes sync back to the sheet in real time.
Views
Checklists
Create step-by-step checklists from any list of tasks. Check items off as you go, assign owners, and set due dates. Checklists keep recurring processes consistent, auditable, and easy to delegate.
Views
Forms
Any workbook schema becomes a shareable data collection form in one click. Collect structured responses from external users without giving them access to your workspace. Every submission lands directly in the sheet.
Views
Kanban Boards
Any sheet with a status column becomes a Kanban board in one click. Drag cards between columns to update status. Add new records directly on the board.
Views
Timeline
Visualize project plans with a Gantt-style timeline. Any sheet with start and end dates becomes a project roadmap instantly. Drag to reschedule, group by owner or status, and share as a live link with stakeholders.