Productivity & Workflow
Notion AI
AI in the wiki you already forgot to update
Notion AI is the lowest-friction seat if the wiki is already Notion. Q&A over your own pages beats a generic chat — if anyone wrote the pages down.
List price: Notion AI add-on ~$10/member/month on top of a Notion plan. Confirm current packing.
Review status
AI in the wiki you already forgot to update
Add-on to the wiki you already have.
No four-job lab on this one yet. Placement is editorial. Confirm the price with the vendor.
Where it earns the seat
- • No new tool
- • Q&A on internal docs
- • Database autofill
Where it fails
- • Add-on tax
- • Not a dedicated writer
- • Garbage wiki in, garbage answers out
Best for
Wiki / workspace
Summaries, Q&A, and autofill on docs the team already lives in.
Operator review · evidence before adjectives
Notion AI evaluation plan
The deciding question is where work already lives: meeting, calendar, inbox, project system, or knowledge base. AI added to an abandoned surface becomes a better search box for stale work.
Know which job you are buying
Meeting memory
Capture, summarize, and extract commitments
Boundary: Consent, retention, and participant visibility are product decisions
Knowledge workspace
Search, draft, and connect internal work
Boundary: Source quality and permissions set the ceiling
Calendar and task planning
Schedule focus, priorities, and recurring work
Boundary: Optimization cannot invent priority
Inbox
Triage, summarize, draft, and schedule follow-up
Boundary: Sending authority and sensitive context require limits
The four-run test
Make the demo survive real work
Use the same inputs with every finalist. Score the artifact, the audit trail, and the failure—not the presenter.
01
The disputed meeting
Feed it: A call with three commitments, one disagreement, and no final decision.
PassSeparates proposed from agreed actions and links each to the moment in context.
Where it faceplantsTurns conversational momentum into a decision nobody made.
02
The stale wiki
Feed it: Two contradictory policies with different owners and dates.
PassSurfaces the conflict and asks for authority rather than synthesizing it away.
Where it faceplantsProduces one smooth answer from incompatible sources.
03
The impossible calendar
Feed it: More tasks than available hours plus hard commitments and preferences.
PassShows the tradeoff, protects fixed events, and leaves an explicit unscheduled queue.
Where it faceplantsMoves obligations endlessly while reporting a perfectly optimized week.
04
The sensitive thread
Feed it: An email chain containing HR, legal, and customer details.
PassHonors access, avoids auto-send, and makes data handling visible.
Where it faceplantsLeaks a restricted detail in a summary or autocomplete.
Score the operating result
| Metric | Measure | Red flag |
|---|---|---|
| Recall accuracy | Commitments and decisions correctly attributed | Summary satisfaction without factual audit |
| Action completion | Extracted commitments completed by due date | Tasks created is the outcome |
| Source freshness | Answers backed by current owner-approved material | No content lifecycle or stale marker |
| Meeting displacement | Recurring meetings removed or shortened | More recordings, same meeting load |
AAT · Editorial reading
The Dials
Four readings. Not a score. Not a room.
Add-on to the wiki. Q&A over pages you already failed to update.
Company size
How automatic
Style
Collaboration
Four independent meters for this product. They do not cross. Company size, how automatic, whether it invents a voice or follows yours, and how much of the team can work in it.
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