Productivity software company Notion is expanding beyond note-taking and moving deeper into AI-powered workflow automation. During a livestreamed product announcement on Wednesday, the company introduced a new developer platform designed to improve collaboration between people, AI agents, and external tools.
The platform expands the capabilities of Notion’s Custom Agents, which were first launched in February to handle repetitive tasks such as answering FAQs, compiling updates, and automating workflows. According to the company, users have already created more than 1 million agents since launch.
Until now, these agents had limited access to external data and custom logic. Teams often depended on third-party automation tools or their own scripts to connect systems and workflows.
“It’s true that, historically, Notion hasn’t been the most developer-focused platform,” said Ivan Zhao, Notion co-founder and CEO, during the livestream. “But things are changing.”
As part of the update, Notion introduced Workers, a cloud-based environment that allows customers to deploy custom code securely in isolated sandboxes. This enables teams to sync data into Notion, build custom tools, and automate actions using webhooks without depending on outside infrastructure.
The company also stated that developers may not need to write code manually, as AI coding agents can generate it.
Notion said the Workers feature will use the same credit system as Custom Agents, but access will remain free through August for experimentation.
The new platform can also sync live data from databases with APIs, including Salesforce, Zendesk, and Postgres, directly into Notion databases.
Zhao said users can now “use your Notion database as a sheer canvas to power both your workflows and your agents.”
The update further allows users to interact directly with external AI agents, assign them tasks, and monitor progress from within Notion. Supported partner agents at launch include Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Decagon, with more integrations planned later.
Notion has also introduced an External Agent API and a new command-line tool called Notion CLI, available across all plans.
“Any data, any tool, any agent — that’s the big picture for the Notion Developer Platform,” Zhao said.
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