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Behind the Craft

Notion's New AI Agents for Work Blew Me Away (Full Tutorial) | Akshay & Ryan

19 Oct 2025

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Everyone calls their AI product an “agent” but Notion’s actually live up to the hype. It took Akshay (Notion’s co-founder) and Ryan (AI lead) 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 buildersGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/how-notion-built-the-best-ai-agents-for-work-akshay-ryanWhere to find:Akshay: https://x.com/akothariRyan: https://x.com/_ryannystromNotion AI agents: https://www.notion.com/blog/introducing-notion-3-0📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

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