Notion State of Mind

Most companies treat AI agents as one-off builds and drown in the maintenance. Bryan Takayama and Josh Redd sit down with Eva Zivanovic, Notion State's first hire and the lead on its largest agent deployments, to break down the CASS framework: a modular system where capabilities, archetypes, solutions, and systems let you improve one building block and cascade the upgrade across every agent you bu...

Bolting AI on is easy. Building it in is the hard part. Bryan Takayama and Josh Redd talk through becoming an AI-native services company. They touch on how to scale beyond just adding people, how to think about workflows, and what they're actually looking for when they hire in the AI era.

The environment you work in is never neutral. It's shaping how you think and what you produce, whether you notice or not. Bryan Takayama and Josh Redd chat about the importance of both your physical and digital workspace recorded, fittingly, just before Fable 5 was ripped from our hands a mere three days into its life. (Pour one out for Fable 5: June 9–12, 2026.)

Few people have watched the AI shift from closer in than Alex Wittenberg — CEO of airCFO and an early fractional CFO for Anthropic. He joins Bryan Takayama and Josh Redd for a wide-ranging conversation on how software and services are racing toward the same middle, and the bigger question underneath it all: what running a company really means in an AI world. The AI CFO Newsletter

Bryan Takayama and Josh Redd go off-script on what an AI-native operating system looks like, why human judgment is the moat AI can't copy, and where they land (very differently) on whether AI is good for humanity. Buckle up, and please keep both arms and legs inside the moving vehicle.

Everyone praises Notion until they're staring at a blank page. Bryan Takayama and Josh Redd share the framework for thinking in Notion — a projection-and-collaboration matrix, the four spaces every workspace needs, and how to think in types so your system scales instead of sprawls.

Notion launched its developer platform, and even seasoned users had to recalibrate what Notion is now. Josh and Bryan welcome their first-ever guest — Bayler Kelly, Notion State's Head of Engineering — to break down CLI, Workers, syncs, and webhooks, and Notion's San Francisco hackathon.

AI is your coworker now. Bryan Takayama and Josh Redd share how AI shows up in their daily work and what it means for org charts, change management, and the skills that still belong to humans.

Real collaboration isn't sharing a doc, it's working from the same brain. Bryan Takayama and Josh Redd explore how Notion fails when individuals build their own systems, why autonomy has to live inside a shared framework, and how the right architecture lets talented people stop managing their tools and get back to their actual work.

Today marks a new chapter for custom agents in Notion. Bryan Takayama and Josh Redd unpack what's changed, the framework they use to build agents that deliver real value, and how to think about credits as part of the bigger picture.

Every company starts with a story. In the pilot of Notion State of Mind, Bryan Takayama and Josh Redd share theirs. How two operators became partners, why Notion became the foundation, and what they're building with Notion State.