Orbit, the assistant on every page.
Orbit lives in the top bar. Ask about the page you are on, the project, the workspace or the whole organisation: it answers from what you can open, writes documents, draws diagrams, builds databases and works with your agents, and it checks with you before it changes things.
Open Orbit
- Press the Ask about pill in the middle of the top bar, or Ctrl J (⌘ J on a Mac) from anywhere except an open dialog.
- Type a quick question in the bar, or open the full chat for a longer piece of work.
- Prefer it out of the way? Orbit can sit as an icon on the right of the top bar, or stay docked at the side of the page.
The first time you open Orbit, a short tour shows you around. You can replay it from Guides.
Choose what it looks at
The Ask about menu sets what Orbit works with: this page, the project, the workspace or the whole organisation. It starts on the page you are on, so “tighten the introduction” means this document, and “what is blocked?” means this project's plan. On a database it works on the table, view, row or dashboard you have open. Whatever you choose, Orbit only reads and changes what you yourself can open.
Where your organisation has agents, the same menu lists the ones you may use. Choose one to talk to it from the bar, and choose a place again to come back to Orbit.
Type @ in your message to point at a particular document, project or workspace, and attach up to 10 files (or paste a picture), each up to 5 MB.
Several conversations at once
Turn to another conversation while one is working and the first carries on in the background. Its face sits in the top bar, with a dot when it needs you or has something new. Rest the pointer on the faces to see each conversation, how long it has been working and a Stop button, and press one to open it. The Ask about menu lists them too. Reload the page and your conversations come back, even one that is still working.
What it can do
- Documents: draft, rewrite, tighten or extend; add tables, callouts and diagrams.
- Diagrams and whiteboards: draw a diagram from a description, change one, or build a board.
- Plans and work: create plans and tasks, move dates, log improvements and risks.
- Databases: build a database, add or change rows, and answer questions about them.
- Your agents: ask one of your agents, or hand it a piece of work.
- Search and the web: find things across your work, use the company brain where your organisation has it, and read a web page you name.
Things to ask
“Summarise this document for someone joining the project next week.”
“Draw the checkout flow as a sequence diagram under the Flow heading.”
“Which tasks in the Checkout relaunch plan are overdue, and who owns them?”
“Build a database to track our event sign-ups, with a form people can fill in.”
“How many customers are in Negotiation, and what are they worth together?”
Chat settings let you choose whether Orbit uses the company brain, whether it may read web pages, and how much of the conversation it remembers.
How it checks with you
Two choices sit by the message box.
| Choice | Options |
|---|---|
| What can the assistant do? | Answer only, Plan first, Make changes |
| When should it check with you? | Ask each time, Ask when it matters, Don't ask |
Most people start on Ask when it matters: Orbit makes everyday edits straight away, and asks before deleting, before big changes, before spending a larger amount of credits at once, and before anything that leaves Stable Baseline. When it asks, a card shows exactly what it wants to do, with Approve and Skip. A request nobody answers lapses after 30 minutes, and skipping changes nothing.
Some things always ask
For owners and admins
Under Organisation settings, AI, the section What the assistant may change sets the most your people can choose (from answer only up to any choice) and where they start. Need something put back? Ask Orbit to undo an earlier change.
Credits and plans
Asking Orbit is free, within a fair-use number of questions a day for each person: questions, searches, reading, summaries and explanations cost no credits. When only a few questions are left, the message box says so, and once they are used it tells you when you can ask again. The work Orbit does for you uses credits, by what it makes:
| Orbit's work | Credits |
|---|---|
| A change: a record, a row, a task, a field, a setting, an edit to a document however long, a rename, a move or a removal | A few credits |
| Many changes at once | A few credits for each batch of the same kind in one place |
| Something new: a document however long, a table, database, view, form, dashboard, plan, agent or duty, with what Orbit makes inside it at the same time (a plan's phases and tasks, a table's fields and views, an agent's first duty) | More credits than a change |
| A database job done in one step: changing every row that matches, undoing that, importing a file or making a copy | The same as a change, or as something new when it makes something new |
| A diagram in a document | The same as the diagram editor's AI charges for it |
Work with a price of its own, such as a premium whiteboard design or reading a web page, keeps that price and is never charged twice, and how much Orbit writes never adds to the price. Only finished work is charged: a change you skip or decline, or one that fails or is cancelled, costs nothing. When Orbit asks before a change, its card shows the price, and the charge is never more than that. It always asks before spending a larger amount of credits at once, ends each turn by saying what it used, and tells you before it starts if there are not enough credits.
When your organisation runs Stable Baseline on its own AI, Orbit's work uses no credits at all. See Credits.
Orbit comes with the Plus, Pro and Enterprise plans. On the Free plan it works once your organisation connects its own AI: it then runs only on that AI, and uses no credits.
Orbit or your own AI tools?
Orbit is the quickest way in: nothing to set up, and it already knows where you are. If you would rather work from your coding tool or chat app, connect it over MCP and it gets the same documents, diagrams, plans and databases, within the access you give it. Many teams use both.