Introduction
What is Cosmo, why it exists, and how it works.
Cosmo is an AI-native collaboration workspace where teams run their operations through AI and integrations. It's not a chatbot you open when you need a quick answer — it's a persistent, integrated environment where your tools, your team, and AI work together continuously.
Think of it as "Claude Code for business teams": a workspace that understands your context, remembers your decisions, connects to the tools you already use, and helps your team move faster every day.
The Problem Cosmo Solves
Modern teams are fragmented. Work lives in dozens of disconnected tools — Slack, Notion, Google Drive, Linear, GitHub, Salesforce — and the mental overhead of switching between them, summarizing context, and aligning teammates consumes hours every day.
AI assistants help, but they're stateless. Every conversation starts from scratch. They don't know your team's conventions, your project's history, or the tools you use. And they're personal — not collaborative.
Cosmo fixes this by combining:
- Persistent memory — AI that remembers your team's conventions, decisions, and context across every conversation
- Deep integrations — direct connections to your existing tools via MCP, not fragile copy-paste workflows
- Shared workspaces — a collaborative environment where your whole team works alongside the same AI context
- Structured outputs — artifacts (documents, reports, proposals) that live in your workspace, not in a chat log
Core Value Proposition
Your tools, your team, one workspace.
How Cosmo Works
Cosmo is built around four core ideas:
1. MCP-First Integrations
Cosmo connects to external tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) — an open standard for giving AI access to external services. When you connect Google Drive, Slack, Linear, or any other tool, Cosmo's AI can read, write, and act on those services directly from your workspace.
This is fundamentally different from pasting content into a chat window. The AI can search your Drive, create Linear tickets, post to Slack, and look up customer data — all in a single conversation, with full context.
2. Multi-Provider AI
Cosmo works with Anthropic (Claude 4 family) and OpenAI (GPT-4o, o1). Azure AI support is planned. You can switch models mid-conversation, use different models for different workspaces, and — on Enterprise plans — bring your own API keys.
All providers share the same interface: one input box, one output stream, one set of tools.
3. The Hub
The Hub is the right panel in Cosmo's three-panel layout (Sidebar → Chat → Hub). It's an AI-generated, real-time canvas for artifacts — the documents, reports, proposals, and other outputs AI creates for you.
Unlike a chat transcript that scrolls away, artifacts in the Hub are persistent, versioned, and collaborative. Your team can see them, edit them, and build on them in real time.
4. Shared Memory
Memory is how Cosmo gets smarter over time. The AI maintains context at three levels:
- Workspace memory — what's happening in this specific project (terminology, decisions, patterns)
- Team memory — your team's conventions and shared context
- Hub memory — org-wide preferences and cross-workspace patterns
Memory is stored as readable files. You can view it, edit it, and correct it. Nothing is hidden.
Who Cosmo Is For
Cosmo is designed for teams that run operations through knowledge work: product teams, sales teams, consulting firms, engineering teams, marketing orgs. Anyone who spends their day in documents, discussions, and tools benefits from a shared AI workspace.
It's not for:
- Pure code generation (use Claude Code or Cursor for that)
- One-off personal AI queries (use Claude.ai for that)
What You Can Do in Cosmo
Here's a taste of what teams use Cosmo for:
| Use Case | How Cosmo Helps |
|---|---|
| Weekly status reports | Pull data from Linear/Jira, draft a report artifact, share with the team |
| Client proposals | Connect CRM data, generate tailored proposals with company context |
| Onboarding new hires | Workspace memory captures team conventions; AI answers questions in context |
| Daily standup prep | Daily Digest summarizes activity across all connected tools |
| Research and analysis | Web search + connected tools + artifact output in one workflow |
| Meeting prep | Pull Notion docs, calendar context, and background into a briefing artifact |
Architecture at a Glance
Cosmo runs as a desktop app (Electron, Mac and Windows) with a web app for account management, billing, and onboarding. A CLI is available for developers.
Under the hood:
Your Desktop App
↓
Cosmo Core (TypeScript engine)
├── MCP connections to your tools
├── LLM providers (Anthropic / OpenAI)
└── Workspace sync (cloud storage + real-time)
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Cosmo Server (NestJS)
├── Auth (Clerk)
├── Billing (Stripe / Razorpay)
├── Workspace storage (Cloudflare R2)
└── Real-time sync (SSE)