Sentience vs Ambient
Should I use Sentience or Ambient?
Choose Sentience to remember where a conversation or idea left you. Use it to revisit a creative project, prepare for a meeting or bring back an earlier conclusion. Briefs, digests and suggestions can bring relevant history to you before you ask. Ambient organizes meetings and business records around accounts and initiatives. Sentience brings your recordings, messages and earlier decisions into the conversation. Share it when others need your perspective.
At a glance
| Workflow | Sentience | Ambient |
|---|---|---|
| What it follows | Your work, relationships, priorities and past decisions. | Business accounts and initiatives shared across the team. |
| Meeting preparation | Briefings and suggested actions based on your connected work. | Meeting dossiers, daily briefings, summaries and transcripts. |
| Helping teammates | Your Sentience answers on your behalf where you enable sharing. | Shared records help teams prepare for meetings and hand over customer work. |
| Sources | Connected email, messages, documents, meetings and screen activity. | Meetings, chats, email and business systems. MCP provides access to authorized records. |
Know what you owe before the call
Ask your Sentience what you promised in the last conversation, what changed afterward and which questions remain open. Use that briefing to prepare for the meeting, then have it draft your follow-up for review.
Choose Sentience to prepare for the next conversation and remember where the last one left you. A founder revisiting an old question was reminded of the conclusion he had already reached. Briefs bring relevant history to you before meetings, and teammates can ask about the sources you share.
Keep up after the meeting
The meeting ends. The email thread continues. Sentience can use both when someone asks what you agreed to or what changed afterward.
Teammates can ask where you enable sharing. Your Sentience uses the sources you allow there, and requests that need you can come back with a draft reply.
Give teammates answers from your work
Ambient provides shared customer and project history, meeting records and briefings. Its read-only MCP connector retrieves authorized meeting and project records in tools such as Claude and ChatGPT.
Sentience follows you across your connected work. Choose it when colleagues need to ask about your conversations, commitments and earlier decisions as they take work forward.
Prepare for your next conversation
Connect the email and meeting history behind an upcoming call. Ask for your commitments and open questions. If someone else takes over the account, share the sources they need so they can ask your Sentience too.
Frequently asked questions
What if the decision happened in Slack after the meeting?
Sentience can use connected messages alongside your recordings, email and documents. Ask what changed after the call or what you ultimately agreed to. It can follow the discussion into those other sources instead of making you piece together the meeting notes and later messages yourself.
Can Sentience write the follow-up from the conversation?
Yes. Ask it to draft the email using the discussion, earlier exchanges with the recipient and any commitments it can find in your connected sources. It writes in your voice, including how you address that person. Review and revise the draft directly in Sentience.
What does Sentience do for me between meetings?
It surfaces messages that need attention, prepares email replies and brings you digests and suggestions. You can also develop an idea, record a thought or explore something you are interested in. Its usefulness continues when your calendar is empty.
Start with something on your mind
Connect your email and calendar to get started. Sentience uses them to show you what needs your attention, prepare you for meetings and draft replies in your voice. Bring an idea, ask a question or record your thoughts. Share your Sentience when others need answers too.