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When your connected AI saves an important update, it can become an organized record, not another forgotten chat response.
NEW · EMPIRICAL WORKSPACES
Your board is a ghost town.
Your AI knows what happened.
A CRM for leads. A todo list with reminders. A tracker for work. Built from what you already told your agent. Nobody fills in a form. Nobody updates a board.
No columns to invent. No daily board updates. Connect your supported AI tools once.
With the AI tools you're already usingChatGPT (opens the listing on chatgpt.com)Claude setup guideCursor setup guideCodex setup guideCopilot setup guide
The old board 0 updates
◷ Last touched: March. Awkward.
✳ Your AI conversation10:42 AM
“Alex at Cedar & Finch wants pricing. I'll send a proposal Tuesday. Make sure we don't lose this.”
✓ Saved in Empirical
Fieldnotes
LeadsLeadsDecisionsWork sessions
No stage yet 1
Cedar & Finch StudioAlex asked for pricing · Proposal promised Tuesday
Contacted 1
Juniper PressCalled Morgan back this morning
Proposal sent 1
Brochure projectProposal sent Monday
It wasn't a board problem.
It was a second-job problem.
The board was a great idea. Then everyone got busy doing the actual work. Now the CRM, spreadsheet, and project tracker all describe three different realities. Congratulations. You have invented administrative archaeology.
“Can everyone please update the board before Friday?
— Every team lead, every Thursday, forever.
— Every team lead, every Thursday, forever.
THE WHOLE THING, INSIDE THE AGENT
You don't have to learn and navigate a new app. Just talk to your favorite AI agent
Watch your agent set up a workspace, save leads, and handle follow-ups.
set me up a workspace for tracking sales leads
LESS SOFTWARE. MORE ROOM TO WORK.
Small subscriptions.
Surprisingly big bill.
A CRM here. A task app there. Another place to write it all down. See what your stack adds up to, then decide what your agent and Empirical could take over.
WHAT YOU PAY FORUSD / PERSON / MO
Pick the tools you pay for. Asana and monday cover similar work; include both only if you use both.
- AsanaStarterProjects & follow-upsTrack assignments, next steps and status updates through your agent.per person
- mondayProClient work & project boardsKeep client work, project stages and decisions together.per person
- AirtableTeamCustom trackers & researchTrack clients, content, vendors and research with your own fields.per person
- AttioPlusCRM: leads, contacts & next stepsKeep a pipeline and relationship history from the updates you give your agent.per person
- NotionPlusNotes, how-tos & handoffsRemember procedures, meeting decisions and shared context across agents.per person
Example paid plans · USD, billed annually · checked Oct 24, 2026.
Individual shows per-person rates, not minimum purchase totals. Asana requires at least 2 seats; monday requires at least 3. Product names link to pricing; edit amounts to match yours. Taxes, add-ons and discounts excluded.
For everyday tracking and context: full replacements depend on your workflow. Gantt charts, resource planning, advanced automations, spreadsheet formulas, CRM email sync and contact enrichment are outside this comparison.
IF IT HELPS, THINK OF IT THIS WAY
It builds the tools you
already know how to use.
Not a new way of working. The old ways, minus the part where you keep them up to date.
A CRM
Leads that stay current
Who they are, how to reach them, what was said last, and where the deal stands. It moves when you mention it, not when you remember to log in.
A to-do list
Follow-ups that find you
Say you will check back in two weeks and that becomes a reminder with a date on it. You get the email. Nothing to add to a list.
A project tracker
A record of what shipped
Work sessions, decisions and what changed, written down as you finish them. The handoff is already written when someone asks for it.
And it is one thing, not twenty. You are not buying a CRM, then a task app, then a tracker, then paying someone to wire them together. It all lives in the same memory — and it runs inside whatever agent you already use.
✳ Empirical / Your growing workspaceGuided, not configured
01 · A QUICK WORKSPACE INTERVIEW
✳ Empirical: “What kind of work should I help you keep track of?”
“Customers, product decisions, and what we've shipped.”
You review the suggested types before creating
LeadsDecisionsWork sessions
02 · YOUR MEMORIES KEEP IT GROWING
Memories you saveRecords in your workspace
MEMORY 01 · SALES
“Taylor asked for a proposal. Follow up Thursday.”
Leads · addedTaylor's proposalFollow-up · Thursday
MEMORY 02 · DECISION
“We're keeping the current pricing through November.”
Decisions · addedPricing planEffective · Through November
MEMORY 03 · DEVELOPMENT
“The import bug is fixed. Testing the rollout tomorrow.”
Work sessions · addedImport fixNext step · Rollout test
✓ An interview shapes it. Saved memories fill it.Illustrative flow · Connected AI saves each memory
AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUILD THE WORKSPACE, EITHER
You explain the work.
Empirical builds the workspace.
Tell Empirical what you’re working on and what matters. It drafts your starting workspace for you. Review it, make it yours, and keep working with your agent. As new memories are saved, your workspace fills with the work. No field-design committee. No 37-column spreadsheet.
Or have your agent do it
Prefer to stay where you are? Paste this to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent with Empirical connected. No interview, no Empirical Tokens.
Set up an Empirical workspace for me. First run `empirical doc workspace` and follow what it says. Create a shared workspace for the work we do together, then give it the kinds of item and the stages that actually fit that work. Ask me what I want to track before you decide, and show me the plan before you create anything. Once it exists, save what we have already worked on into it.
Needs Empirical connected to that agent. Set that up
No dashboard maze.
No glorp.
Just progress.
glorp/ɡlɔːrp/ · noun, informal
The unnecessary hassle, confusion and bureaucratic nonsense you have to endure to accomplish a simple task. Excessive paperwork, confusing interfaces, automated phone trees, redundant verification, arbitrary procedural hurdles.
“I just wanted to cancel my subscription, but the amount of glorp I had to get through was ridiculous.
Related: red tape, administrative sludge, bureaucratic friction.
Related: red tape, administrative sludge, bureaucratic friction.
THE PART THAT'S ACTUALLY DIFFERENT
Not a smarter board.
Less work around the work.
No setup scavenger hunt.
A short guided interview shapes the workspace around your work. New memories can help its structure evolve.
The next AI knows, too.
Come back tomorrow in another supported tool. Recall the shared context without reconstructing yesterday from five chats.
YES, THERE'S A REAL PRODUCT UNDER HERE
And when you want to look
at it, there it is.
You could ask your agent any of this. Asking answers one question at a time. This answers “where does everything stand” in one look — every lead, every stage, what has gone quiet. That is the part a conversation is bad at.
♧ Fieldnotes
A shared workspace for business leads, decisions and follow-ups.
＋ New
AllLeadsContactsCompaniesMeetingsKnowledge itemsIdeasFeedback
NEW 2
Studio proposal Needs estimate by Tuesday
Brand refresh inquiry Client introduction
CONTACTED 1
Potential partnership Spoke this morning
QUALIFYING 1
New studio inquiry Confirm budget
PROPOSAL 0
Nothing here
WON 0
Nothing here
♧ Service shelf
Every service a project depends on, in one place.
☷ List＋ New
AllServicesCost changesDecisionsUnsorted
Domain registrar · Used for company domains
ServiceRenewal details and plan need confirmation.
Analytics provider · Used by several projects
ServiceFree tier · Usage dashboard
Vector database · Used for AI memory
ServiceSubscription active · Cost to review
Maps and geocoding provider
ServiceAPI usage · Free tier currently
♧ Build journal
The shared record of projects, coding sessions and decisions.
＋ New
AllWork sessionsCommits and branchesExperiment resultsDecisionsMilestonesPitfalls
IN PROGRESS 2
API integration update Testing new endpoint
Billing flow follow-up Pending code review
IN REVIEW 1
New deployment notes Ready for handoff
LOGGED 3
Backfill complete Verified and shipped
Agent evaluation Results recorded
PLANNED 1
Rollout date agreed Thursday
PAUSED 0
Nothing here
Modeled on Empirical's actual workspace interface. Demo records are fictional.See plans and workspace limits ↗
FOR PEOPLE WHO DO THE WORK
Three very different jobs.
One less thing to manage.
“Remind me to follow up.”
Salespeople already tell AI about deals, follow-ups and next steps. Save the important details to a lead workspace as you go.
Leads · Contacts · Proposals“Here's what we changed.”
Decisions, blockers and experiments pile up across coding sessions. Log the useful parts so the next agent can pick up where the last left off.
Work sessions · Milestones · Pitfalls“Didn't we already decide this?”
Pricing changes, vendor decisions, hiring thoughts, late-night ideas. Keep the breadcrumbs without assigning yourself another admin job.
Decisions · Vendors · KnowledgeFAIR QUESTIONS
Wait, does it really work like that?
No. Your connected assistant saves information when it uses Empirical’s tools or supported workflows. Empirical does not listen to calls or silently copy every chat. Connect a supported tool.
The board is one view of memories in a workspace. Leads, decisions, services, and work sessions keep their context so your AI can use it later. You can also browse the workspace as a list.
New memories fill the types you already agreed to. The interview proposes types, statuses, and fields from your answers; you review the draft before creating the workspace. Your connected AI can set a memory’s type, and automatic classification can help file untyped memories. You can revisit the interview to add to the structure as your work changes.
Your agent can set the type and stage when it saves a memory. For an untyped memory, automatic classification first finds the type, then checks for a stage among that type’s statuses. “Sent the proposal” can become Proposal sent. “They want pricing” has no stated stage, so it stays in No stage yet. Uncertain classifications leave the stage empty.
Yes. Connected, supported tools can recall the saved context from your workspace. Give the next assistant the right workspace and ask where the work stands.
An Empirical account, a supported AI connection, and access to shared workspaces. The interview helps draft the setup. Availability depends on your account, and you’ll see any Empirical Token cost before starting.
Shared workspaces start on a paid plan. See current plans and workspace limits. Your interview reviews the setup before anything is created.
THE BOARD WAS NEVER THE GOAL
A little closer to
“my assistant’s got it.”
Start with a conversation about your work. Give your AI a workspace to remember it. Tomorrow, ask where you left off.
Start your workspace interview ↗Supported integrations required · Shared workspace access varies by plan