Latent Space
Notion’s Token Town: 5 Rebuilds, 100+ Tools, MCP vs CLIs and the Software Factory Future — Simon Last & Sarah Sachs of Notion
April 15, 20261h 17m · 17,118 words
Show notes
For all those who missed out on London, see you in Miami next week! Notion, the knowledge work decacorn, has been building AI tooling since before ChatGPT, with many hits from Q&A in 2023 and unified AI in 2024 and Meeting Notes in 2025. At the end of their last Make user conference, Ryan Nystrom teased Notion 3.0’s Custom Agents - and they are finally embracing the Agent Lab playbook!
Highlighted moments
the search load and the search traffic a majority of it's coming from agents not humans and so for every query that's hitting our elastic search or vector indices they're not coming from humans and the queries are structured differently and what's returned has a different requirement positional ranking matters less but top care retrieval mode matters more
“unlike a lab we aren't fully incentivized just for you to use as many tokens as possible we're actually the right tool for the job a lot of the time the right tool for the job is actually just writing code and not even using agent at all”
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