One line from the gate.
"Where is the Q3 comp model and what changed since Friday." Two sentences back, the sheet, and a link to the cells that changed, attributed. Partners at a professional-services firm asked for exactly this.
Surfaces · Mobile, voice & SMS
Work from your phone with the same agent and permissions
Text questions, approve workflows, or hold to talk—Athena has a phone number, email, and calendar so the work continues when you leave the desk.
Text the agent. Get the number, the file, and who changed it.
- iOS app with SSO
- Hold to talk
- Approve or reject by voice
- SMS and email channels
- Full desktop permissions and attribution
- OTA updates
The problem
Work does not stop at the desk
The partner boarding the flight, the plant manager on the floor, the CFO between meetings. They need a number, a document, or a decision, and the tool that has it is on a laptop in a bag.
Mobile assistants answer trivia. They do not open your comp model, read the attribution, and send you the file.
Delegate from anywhere. Review from anywhere.
How it works
The agent is a phone contact
Text or call. The agent has its own number. Ask in one line; get a concise answer, a file, or a portal link.
Talk. Hold to talk in the app. Delegate, steer, approve, or reject by voice. Text-mode parity on the core tools.
Approve. A push notification arrives when a run reaches a step you marked. Approve, edit, or reject from the notification.
Hand off. The thread continues on the desktop, in Chrome, or inside Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Nothing restarts.
Use cases
Text, voice, and approvals in action
A deck built by voice.
Hold to talk: "Build the board update from the July sheet, our template, three slides." The deck arrives as a file chip; open it in PowerPoint Studio on the desktop to review track changes.
Approvals in your pocket.
A workflow wants to send 14 emails or write back 400 rows. The push arrives with the cost estimate. Approve or reject in one tap.
The agent in the meeting.
Athena joins Zoom, Meet, or Teams. Speaker-identified transcript, time-anchored citations. A wake phrase brings it into the conversation. Afterward it runs the follow-ups you told it to.
Email as a channel.
Forward a data room, a folder of motions, or a stack of vendor files to an address the workflow owns. The finished output comes back to your inbox.
What customers say
“It's good to understand the capability of the platform. That how far, and how quickly you guys can get these things going [...] that has been impressive overall.”
“Lets us get a lot more out of our data than [...] We can sit on top of all of the data in [our data warehouse] as opposed to just, like, our little ingested, you know, three gigabytes semantic models. I think we have a lot of power here.”
“Gave Athena the spreadsheet, explained which column I was trying to figure out, and then ten secs it told me... exactly how the calculation was based on the other data.”
“He wrote the entire stuff. By itself. And I was there, and I was thinking, alright. If I had to write all this stuff, I mean, I would've spent days, days, days.”
“I send that to the programmer and he said, alright. I read your file. I copied the section of the code because he has the right interface, and it works. Wow. Just like magic.”
“One workspace. All different, let's say, avatars of their output data. Right? Suddenly, it's dashboard. Excel is here. PowerPoint is when it's all together. It's very impressive.”
“Use the Athena platform probably closer to the concept and how it was designed, like, with the spaces architecture where you've got a set of primitives and capabilities, and you bring together the right set of capabilities to solve a task.”
“Digital worker, it gets spun up, it gets given access to the toolkits that it needs. It gets given access to the data that it needs. Just exists for the period it needs to exist to perform the task. And then it gets torn back down again afterwards.”
“I like that direction, that concept of the agent is the agent. It becomes an entity in its own right with its own ownership and its own missioning, and you get rid of the gray area and the blurry lines.”
“It was PowerPoint... there was no kind of distinction between the two. So that was killer. And I literally had a meeting on it today, and people said how great it was.”
Verbatim from customer calls. Customers anonymized.
Governance
SSO, attribution, and approval policy
SSO on mobile. Same permissions, inherited live.
Every action attributed and reversible, exactly as on desktop.
Approval steps and budgets travel with the workflow, not the device.
Messages and files stay in your environment; the phone is a window.
What to plan for
Voice is at parity with text on the core tools and about a second slower per turn today.
FAQ
What can people do from a phone?
Ask questions, review and approve work, and capture notes with the same agent as on the web.
Is it secure?
Yes. It uses single sign-on and the same permissions.
Can approvals happen on mobile?
Yes.
One platform underneath
AGS · Athena Governance System
Records every change by a person or an agent, rolls back one contributor's edits without losing anyone else's, and keeps the model, instructions, and sources behind each agent action.
Palladium · deployment
How the platform is deployed: Athena's managed cloud, your cloud on AWS, GCP, or Azure, on-prem, air-gapped, or GovCloud. Same platform in every option.
How it fits together
Build, Work, and Data on top; 150+ connectors and every surface in and out; one map of the whole platform.
The rest of the platform