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Sideshow, worked by an AI employee

Not another app for your team to learn, and not a set of rules for you to build. You hire an AI employee, you give it access to your Sideshow account, and you ask it for things in Slack or Teams the way you would ask anyone else on the team. There is nothing to map and nothing to maintain.

  • Developer Tools
  • Connects with a key
  • 10 ready-made tools
  • Asked in Slack or Teams
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An illustration of how the conversation reads, not a transcript from a client account.

What Sideshow is

Sideshow is a collaborative visual workspace where agents publish, update, and discuss posts containing rich interactive surfaces.

You paste in a key from your own Sideshow account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Sideshow whenever you like.

How a run works

One message in, the work done in Sideshow.

  1. 01

    You ask

    You message your AI employee in the chat your team already has open, in one sentence, in your own words.

  2. 02

    It works out the step

    It decides what the job needs in Sideshow. You do not pick anything from a menu or wire anything together.

  3. 03

    It does the work

    Signed in to your own Sideshow account, inside the access you granted it, doing the thing you asked for.

  4. 04

    It reports back

    It tells you what it did, in the same thread. If it could not do something, it says so rather than guessing.

10 tools it already has

What it can do in Sideshow

These are the ready-made tools your AI employee already has in Sideshow. It is not limited to them, but it never has to be taught these.

  • Create CommentCreate a text comment attached to a post.
  • Delete CommentPermanently delete one comment by id.
  • Delete PostPermanently delete one post by id.
  • Get PostGet one post with current surface content and retained version history.
  • List CommentsList currently available comments, optionally filtered by session, post, author, or sequence number. This call never long-polls.
  • List KitsList the HTML style and behavior kits available to use in post surfaces.
  • List PostsList compact post summaries from one session, or the most recently updated posts across the workspace when sessionid is omitted.
  • List SessionsList workspace sessions with their post and surface counts so a session can be selected for publishing or post filtering.
  • Publish PostPublish a post with one or more ordered typed surfaces, using an existing session or automatically creating one when sessionid is omitted.
  • Update PostUpdate a post title and/or the primary content of one surface while preserving that surface's kind and metadata; creates a retained version.
Access, and who is in charge of it

You stay the boss of your Sideshow account.

Nothing connects until you approve it. You grant access one app at a time, you can take it back the same way, and everything your AI employee does in there is written down where you can see it.

How we handle your data
  • It signs in to your own Sideshow account. You are not moving anything into ours.
  • You grant access one app at a time, and you can take it back the same way.
  • Everything it does in Sideshow is written down, with what it did and when.
  • Anything you tell it to check with you first, it checks with you first.
Other apps in the same corner of the business

It works in Sideshow and the rest of your software in the same job

A real job rarely stays in one place. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in another and writing the result in a third is one request to your AI employee, not three.

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Questions people ask about Sideshow

Can an AI employee really work inside Sideshow?
Yes. It signs in to your own Sideshow account and works in it the way a new hire would, from the chat your team already has open. Nobody installs anything, and nobody learns a new screen.
Do I have to move anything out of Sideshow?
No. Nothing moves and nothing is replaced. Your records stay in Sideshow, your team carries on in the same screens they used yesterday, and your AI employee works alongside them in there.
How does it get into my Sideshow account?
You paste in a key from your own Sideshow account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Sideshow whenever you like. You approve it before anything connects, and you can take the access back the same way you gave it.
What can it actually do in Sideshow?
It has 10 ready-made tools in Sideshow today, among them Create Comment, Delete Comment and Delete Post. The full list is on this page. It is not limited to those, but it never has to be taught them.
Can it use Sideshow and the rest of my software in the same job?
Yes, and that is usually the point. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in Sideshow and writing the result somewhere else is one request to your AI employee, not three separate ones you stitch together.
Who decides what it is allowed to do in Sideshow?
You do. You grant access one app at a time and can withdraw it at any time, anything you ask it to check with you first it checks with you first, and everything it does in Sideshow is written down with what it did and when.