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The cure for “execution tax”

How Brainlabs' Global CEO set out to eliminate the gap between deciding and doing by building a company-wide AI operating layer on Notion. Here's what he built, what he learned, and why he started having beautiful days at work.

Áine Dundas

Head of EMEA Marketing

Tech

How Notion catches breaking schema changes before they reach production

How we built a CI guardrail to catch breaking schema changes automatically, and some of the design decisions that shaped it.

Maya Lekhi

Engineering, Notion

Notion HQ

Notion is expanding data residency to Japan and South Korea

We’re excited to share that starting in May 2026, Enterprise plan customers in Japan and South Korea will be able to choose to keep their Notion data at rest in-region.

Fuzzy Khosrowshahi

Chief Technology Officer, Notion

Tech

Updating the design of Notion pages

In recent months, we decided to revisit our page designs and apply our design rules to them more consistently.

Paul Velleux

Product Designer, Notion

For Teams

How Chronicle hit #1 on Product Hunt using Notion

Big launches don’t just happen—they require lots of orchestration. For Chronicle, that happens entirely in Notion.

Mayuresh Patole

Co-founder and CEO, Chronicle

Tech

How we built security into Custom Agents

A look inside the security model behind Custom Agents, and what we learned testing it at scale.

Sean Keenan, Jacob Brackett

For Teams

How Notion uses Custom Agents

Here's a peek behind the curtain to show you how we’re using Custom Agents at Notion to automate repetitive busywork.

Drew Evans

Marketing

Notion HQ

Introducing Custom Agents

Introducing Custom Agents, your AI teammates that handle entire workflows autonomously. They take the repetitive work off your hands so you can focus on the work that needs you.

Akshay Kothari

Co-founder, Notion

Tech

Two years of vector search at Notion: 10x scale, 1/10th cost

This is the story of how we scaled our vector search infrastructure by 10x while simultaneously reducing costs by 90 percent over the past two years.

Preeti Gondi, Mickey Liu, Nathan Louie, Calder Lund, Jacob Sager

First Block

First Block with Gabe Pereyra, Co-founder and President of Harvey

In this episode, we spoke with Gabe about how a litigator and an AI researcher spotted a transformational opportunity in legal, and what it really takes to go from founder-led selling to a scalable enterprise motion

Anastasia Crew

Startup Marketing Lead

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The cure for “execution tax”

How Notion catches breaking schema changes before they reach production

Notion is expanding data residency to Japan and South Korea

Updating the design of Notion pages

How Chronicle hit #1 on Product Hunt using Notion

How we built security into Custom Agents

How Notion uses Custom Agents

Introducing Custom Agents

Two years of vector search at Notion: 10x scale, 1/10th cost

First Block with Gabe Pereyra, Co-founder and President of Harvey