Workspaces: organize projects and collaborate

A workspace is the top-level container in Genie that brings your projects and people together in one place. Instead of working in isolation, your team shares a single environment where every project is visible, activity is tracked, and everyone works from the same context. You can belong to multiple workspaces — for example, one for your company and another for a side project — and switch between them instantly from the sidebar.

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Create a workspace

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The workspace home

When you open a workspace you land on the workspace home — your team’s dashboard. It has three main areas:

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Sidebar

The left sidebar is the primary navigation hub for your workspace.

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Stats

Below the greeting, the home page shows four at-a-glance stat cards:

• Active Projects — the number of projects currently in this workspace.
• Live Published — how many projects have been published and are online.
• Generations — total AI generation count across all projects.
• Contributors — the number of workspace members.

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Project list

Beneath the stats, the home page shows all projects you have access to in a card grid. Each project card links directly to the project. If no projects exist yet, you will see an empty state with a New Project button.

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Activity log

If the activity log is enabled by an admin or owner, a recent-activity panel appears between the stats and the project list. It shows a live feed of workspace-wide events — new projects, member changes, setting updates — with relative timestamps. Click View all to open the full activity log page.

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Workspace AI

Every workspace includes a Genie AI that understands your workspace — your projects, your team, your credit usage, and your history. You can ask it questions and give it instructions in plain language, without switching to a project chat.

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What you can ask

• “Which project is using the most credits this month?”
• “Send a follow-up prompt to my dashboard project: add a dark mode toggle”
• “Create a new project: a customer support ticketing tool with a Kanban board”
• “Invite my colleague as a member”
• “Show me the latest workspace activity”
• “How much does the Genie Pro plan cost?”
• “I’m seeing a blank screen after checkout — has this happened before?”
• “What database migrations has my dashboard project shipped?”
• “Does the checkout page look right on mobile?”
• “My app just threw an error — can you check what happened?”
• “Show me what the dashboard would look like with a warmer color palette”

The workspace AI can create and update projects, manage members, query credit usage, answer pricing questions, search past conversations, check whether a bug you describe has a known fix, look at your project’s screenshots or search its live console logs to see what’s actually happening, show you a design mock-up of a change before you build it, review a Genie Cloud project’s database migration history, and manage your MCP integrations — all through natural language. If you send that follow-up prompt from inside the project’s own chat, Genie starts the build automatically as soon as you confirm — you don’t need to press send again once you’ve reviewed the card.

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Genie AI queues a busy project’s prompt

If you ask the workspace AI to update a project that’s already building, your prompt no longer just fails and asks you to try again — Genie lines it up in a queue and sends it automatically once the current build settles, spacing sends out by a short cooldown so a project isn’t hit with back-to-back builds. Before Genie sends anything, the confirmation card tells you plainly whether your prompt is starting a build right now or joining the queue — and, if it’s queuing, roughly when it will go out. Ask the workspace AI anytime to check, pause, reorder, or clear a project’s queue.

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Is it still building?

Every place you talk to Genie AI — the in-project Genie AI tab, the standalone chat page, and the command palette — shows a small status badge for any project connected to that conversation, so you can tell at a glance whether it’s currently building, running an automatic fix, or has prompts waiting in its queue. Nothing shows once a project is idle.

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Genie AI can see and debug your project

Ask “does this look right?” or “why did my app just throw an error?” and the workspace AI can check for itself instead of guessing from your description. It can pull up your project’s live screenshots — the deployed app’s default view, or exactly what was on your own screen if you were the one looking at it — and it can search your live app’s own console output, errors, and crashes to check whether a bug you’re describing really happened, or whether a fix landed.

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Genie AI can show you a design mock-up

Ask “what would this look like with a warmer palette?” or “make the dashboard feel more like Linear” and Genie AI can show you, before touching any code. It screenshots your real app, has an image model repaint it with the change you described, and shows you both pictures side by side. Genie AI is shown the same two pictures, so it describes what actually came back rather than just restating your request. React to what you see and Genie AI iterates — refine the same mock-up, or start over from your app’s real screenshot. Once you’re happy with a direction, ask Genie AI to build it and it hands the change list off as a follow-up prompt, not the picture itself.

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Attachments carry into your build

Attach an image or PDF to your message when asking the workspace AI to create or update a project — a mockup, a reference photo — and the file itself goes into that build, not just a text description of it. Beyond images and PDFs, you can attach plain text, Markdown, CSV, JSON, and Word documents too, and an iPhone HEIC photo is converted automatically so its preview displays correctly. Before you send, click any attachment chip to check exactly what Genie will see: an image opens in a lightbox you can page through, an uploaded PDF opens in a new tab, and a document shows the exact text that will be sent, its length, and whether it was clipped.

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Genie asks before it builds

For a clear, specific ask — “a one-page site that just says hello” — Genie starts building right away, at most with a single quick follow-up if one detail would change the result. For a broader or more ambitious idea, Genie first asks what it’s really for and where you want to take it, batched into one short card exchange rather than a back-and-forth interview. Your answers shape the very first build: the must-haves become the initial feature set, and anything mid- or long-term becomes a tracked goal for later instead of getting lost.

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Guided toward what Genie builds well

When you ask the workspace AI to create a project or shape a prompt, it steers you toward the kind of app Genie is proven to build reliably — a React/Tailwind frontend backed by Genie Cloud, with AI text, vision, and image generation already built in — rather than something likely to stall partway through. If what you asked for isn’t a good fit, Genie suggests the closest thing it can actually ship instead — for example, a request for real-time video effects becomes AI photo editing you can generate on demand.

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Interactive answers

Genie doesn’t always reply with plain text. When it makes more sense to offer you a choice than to write a paragraph, it renders a clickable card right in the chat: a button to confirm a single action, a list to pick exactly one option from, or a checklist where you can tick as many choices as apply and add your own note underneath. Tap a card to answer — if you send a new message instead without answering, the card is cleared automatically so it never lingers out of date. If a card needs an answer before Genie AI can continue — confirming an action, or reviewing a project it’s about to create — you can minimize it instead of answering right away or canceling it outright. Tap it again anytime to bring it back; nothing about the request is lost while it’s collapsed.

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Always replies in your language

Genie AI answers in whatever language you write to it in — regardless of your account’s interface language — and keeps writing in that language for the rest of the conversation, including any cards it shows you and the project briefs it authors on your behalf. If you switch languages mid-conversation, Genie follows along from your very next message.

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Genie remembers your preferences

As you chat with the workspace AI, Genie remembers things you share about yourself — your industry, your team setup, the kinds of apps you build — and uses that context in future conversations automatically. You don’t need to repeat background information in every chat. You can also ask it directly — try “what do you remember about me?” — and Genie searches everything it’s picked up, not just the most recent items. If something’s outdated or you’d rather it didn’t know, just ask Genie to forget it.

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Talk instead of type

Don’t want to type your prompt? Tap the microphone icon in any Genie chat composer, or next to the Get started button on the workspace dashboard, to dictate instead. Your words appear in the composer as you speak, rather than arriving all at once when you stop, and dictation recognizes Genie- and product-specific terms — like “Genie Cloud” or “MCP” — instead of mishearing them. The microphone stays available even after you’ve started typing, and even while a response is still streaming in or an earlier conversation is still loading, so you can dictate a correction or an addition onto a draft without clearing the box first; tap it again to stop recording, or it stops on its own after five minutes. Genie transcribes what you said so you can review or edit it before sending — nothing is submitted automatically. Voice input is available in the workspace chat, a project’s chat panel, the workspace dashboard, and the command palette’s Ask Genie, on any browser that supports microphone recording.

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Workspace chats are shared with your team

Any conversation with the workspace AI belongs to the whole workspace, not just the person who started it. If a teammate shares a link to their own Genie AI conversation, opening it now works for anyone else in the workspace — instead of a “not found” error. Browsing your Recent chats still only shows your own conversations by default, so this doesn’t flood your list with everyone else’s threads. Workspace admins can also open, rename, or delete any conversation in the workspace, so support can pick up a stuck conversation without you having to reproduce it for them.

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The command palette

Press ⌘K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) from anywhere in Genie to open the command palette — a fast way to jump to a project, run an action, or start asking Genie a question without leaving the page you’re on. Choosing Ask Genie switches the palette into a chat window in place. If you close the palette mid-conversation, nothing is lost — the conversation is saved and reappears under Recent chats at the bottom of the list. Reopening the palette shortly after chatting picks the conversation back up automatically, so you can dismiss it without losing your place.

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