Everything Obvious can do.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Planning

For complex tasks, Obvious surfaces a structured plan before taking a single action. Review the proposed steps, make changes, and approve before execution begins — so you're always in control of what the agent does next. The plan adapts if new information changes the approach mid-task.

Questions

Before committing to a long task, Obvious can surface targeted clarifying questions. Rather than guessing at intent and executing the wrong plan, it pauses to confirm scope, constraints, and expectations — saving the cost of a wrong turn.

Skills

Skills are reusable knowledge modules that load into the agent's active context. A writing skill contains your brand voice guidelines. A design skill knows your component library. A data skill knows your schemas and naming conventions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Templates

Save any project, document, or workflow configuration as a reusable template. Start new projects with the right structure already in place — schemas, documents, views, and automations pre-configured for the work ahead.

Workbooks

Workbooks organize structured data into typed sheets. Fields have types — string, number, date, enum, currency — so your data has guardrails built in.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tasks

Tasks are saved workflows — a sequence of agent instructions that execute in order, with optional branching, approvals, and conditions. Describe your process once, and it becomes a repeatable playbook.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Email

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Grouped Views

Filter, group, and sort any sheet into a focused view. Save views as named configurations — Active Issues, This Quarter, Unassigned — and switch between them without affecting the underlying data or other teammates' 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.

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.