The Chrome side panel.
The richest surface today. Read the page you are on, pull from your drive, draft in place. "Like she's sitting over your shoulder," as one new user put it during onboarding.
Work · Spaces
Work with one agent across every tool and device
The same thread, memory, and citations in the web app, Chrome, Office, mobile, voice, and API—so context never restarts and every answer traces to source.
One agent. Every surface. The thread follows you.
- Web
- Chrome
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- iOS
- Voice
- API, one runtime
- Deep-linked, version-aware citations
- Presence for humans and agents
The problem
Every tool has its own assistant
The copilot in your spreadsheet does not know what you asked the one in your browser. The one in your inbox cannot see the deck. You become the integration layer, copying context from tab to tab.
And when an answer arrives, the source is a vibe. "Based on your documents" is not a citation.
One agent, one memory, one audit trail.
How it works
One runtime across all surfaces
Ask where you are. Web app, Chrome side panel, Office panel, mobile, SMS, voice, or email. One runtime behind all of them.
Watch the plan. A live, editable task list in the panel. Steer, retry, or reorient a run mid-flight. Queue a side question with
/btwwhile the agent keeps working.Read the citations. Deep-linked and version-aware: page, cell, slide, shape, timestamp, line, or image region. If the source changed since the agent read it, the citation says so and opens the version it saw.
Hand off. Move to another surface. The thread, the plan, and the context come with you.
People and agents
What people and agents each do
Spaces. Shared workspaces holding files, documents, sheets, decks, meetings, and data, organized in folders and projects, with the same permissions you already use.
Sessions. Conversations with an agent from any surface: web, phone, text, email, Slack, Teams, Office, Chrome. One memory that follows you between them.
| Capability | People can | Agents can | Together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spaces | Organize work, share it, set who can see what. | Find, read, and file assets; keep projects tidy and linked. | Multiplayer: people and agents work in the same space at the same time. |
| Sessions | Ask, steer, and correct in plain language; pick up where you left off anywhere. | Remember context across surfaces; run long jobs and report back. | Invite teammates into the same session; everyone sees the same thread. |
Anything a person can do here, an agent can do with the same permissions, and both land in the same audit trail.
Surfaces
Where Spaces runs today
Inside Office.
The panel in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Ask for the chart, the paragraph, the slide; it lands in the document you are looking at, attributed and tracked.
Presence: who is where.
See which humans and which agents are in which document right now. Presence shows who is in each document, not just which browser tabs are open.
Citations you can audit.
Every number traces to the upstream table, page, or cell—exact location and version. Image-region citations for charts and scans. Perfect provenance: open the historical version Athena read, not today's.
Long-term memory.
Nightly, the agent extracts what it learned: tools that worked, preferences, procedures. With provenance, and yours to inspect.
What customers say
“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.”
“There's one thing that this platform did, which I've never seen any other platform do... it always keeps my continuity as I'm moving around... it automatically knows where all my documents are, knows where everything is, and knows where I was.”
“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.”
“They said that the human cannot multitask, which is true, but Athena can. Without any issue. So I have on a regular basis four or five sessions open.”
“Wow. Athena is a beast. I have fourteen threads that are going in parallel.”
“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.”
“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.
Build
Spaces on one platform
Spaces is the surface for agents (ad hoc). Workflows (Agent Operating Procedures) run without a surface at all. Applications are the surface you give the many.
Governance
Permissions, attribution, and version control
Each user's permissions, inherited live from source systems. If you cannot see it, the agent cannot.
Every save attributed. Diffs. Rollback.
Citations are version-aware; changed sources are flagged.
Same governance on every surface, including mobile and voice.
What to plan for
The Chrome side panel is the richest surface today. Office panels are at parity on the core tools and catching up on the rest.
FAQ
What is a Space?
A shared workspace where people and agents work on the same files, data, and tasks.
Does the agent remember past work?
Yes. Context carries across sessions.
Who can see a Space?
Only the people you share it with.
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