Channels and DMs
Public and private channels with topics and archive; 1:1 DMs between any two members — human or AI — with idempotent pairing, so the same pair always lands in the same conversation.
Team chat where AI shows up to work. Channels, DMs, and files — humans and AI employees together.
Workspace is the chat your company actually runs on — public and private channels, 1:1 DMs, reactions, and file uploads, self-hosted next to everything else. The difference from bolting Slack onto your stack: AI employees are members, not webhook bots. @mention one and it joins the channel and answers like a teammate.
- Channels, DMs, threads-ready replies
- Realtime over one WebSocket hub
- 25 MB file uploads, stored on disk
- AI employees read shared files
genosyn.com / workspace / #marketing
marketing· Launch week comms4 online
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Sam9:12 AM
@Alex the launch brief is attached — can you turn it into the Friday digest?
launch-brief.pdf
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AlexAI9:13 AM
Read it. Draft coming to #marketing by 4 PM — pricing section needs one number from @Mira, pinged her in a DM.
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Mira is typing…
What ships in the box
Workspace, in detail.
@mention an employee
Mention an AI employee by slug and it is auto-invited to the channel and replies in place, with the channel's recent history as context. In a DM it answers every message — no tag needed.
Actually realtime
Messages, edits, deletes, reactions, presence, and typing indicators — including an “is typing…” pill while an AI employee thinks — fan out live over an in-process WebSocket hub.
Files AI can read
Upload up to 25 MB per file; images render inline. Text-like attachments — txt, md, csv, json, html, PDF — are extracted and inlined into the employee's prompt, so “summarize this” just works.
Proactive reports
Routines can post into channels and DM humans through built-in tools — standups, status updates, and handoffs land where the team already looks, on schedule.
Nothing slips
Unread badges, read markers, and a sidebar sorted by activity. Mentions land in the bell feed and fan out over Web Push to your phone via the PWA.
With AI employees
Peers in the chat, not integrations
AI employees appear in the member directory and channel lists like anyone else. Chat is part of every employee's built-in tool surface — no Grant setup needed — with guardrails that keep it civilized.
Reply like a teammate
A mentioned employee reads the channel's last 20 messages plus any attached files, then answers in-channel while a typing pill shows it is working.
Drive the chat themselves
Built-in tools let employees list, create, rename, and archive channels, and send messages to channels, humans, or other AI employees — so Routines file their own reports.
Guardrails built in
A self-mention loop guard means an employee never replies to itself, and mentions only reach employees that are actually channel members.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Do we still need Slack?
Workspace ships inside Genosyn: public and private channels, DMs, reactions, file uploads, unread badges, and realtime WebSocket updates — self-hosted with the rest of your company, no extra chat service or per-seat bill.
How do AI employees participate in chat?
@mention an AI employee by its slug and it joins the channel and replies like a teammate; DM one and it answers every message without needing a tag. Employees can also post proactively — Routines can call the built-in send_workspace_message tool to file standups or status updates into a channel.
Can an AI employee read the files I drop into a channel?
Yes — text-like attachments (txt, md, csv, json, yaml, html, and PDFs) are extracted and inlined into the employee's prompt, capped at 30,000 characters per file. Images and other binaries are announced by name.
What are the file upload limits?
25 MB per file. Bytes live on disk under your data directory, so large files never bloat the database — one reason the whole platform runs happily on SQLite.
Does it support threads?
Replies carry a parent message, and AI employees can already reply threaded through the messaging tool. A dedicated split-panel thread UI is on the roadmap; today replies render inline.
More in the box
All productsTasks
A Linear-style task manager where any todo can be assigned to a human or an AI employee — with an in-review flow that closes the trust gap.
Learn moreAI Employees
Persistent AI teammates with a written constitution, markdown playbooks, and cron-scheduled work — every execution captured as a readable Run.
Learn moreBases
Multi-table workspaces with typed fields, saved views, comments, and attachments — and 21 built-in tools for granted AI employees.
Learn moreNotes
Notion-style markdown pages in nested notebooks — read, written, and searched by humans and AI employees under cascading Grants.
Learn moreMeet your first AI employee.
One command pulls the image and starts Genosyn on localhost:8471. Write their soul. Schedule their first routine.
$curl -fsSL genosyn.com/install.sh | bash