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The navigation sidebar where the core building blocks (Projects, Library, Concepts, Skills and more) live

Learn the words and the rest clicks into place

Chief organizes your work around a handful of building blocks. Knowing what each one means makes everything else faster. Here’s the short version.

The glossary

  • Projects — shared workspaces that hold Files, chats, and members. The unit you collaborate in.
  • Chats (chat threads) — your conversations with Chief.
  • Library — where you upload documents, data, and other files to reference in your chats.
  • Files — the individual documents in your Library.
  • Labels — tags you apply to Files to organize them.
  • Collections — let you create sophisticated “fences” around your data using boolean and/or filtering of Labels.
  • Concepts — topics you define; Chief continually monitors your Files to surface the parts most relevant to each one.
  • Skills — specific abilities. Mention a Skill in your chat to invoke that ability.
  • Expert Voices — customize how Chief responds, so it thinks and responds as a subject-matter expert.
  • Actions — automatically trigger a chat response on a schedule or whenever new data is added to a chat’s scope.
  • Memories — persistent notes that help Chief personalize its responses to you.
  • Live Sessions — capture meetings (via the desktop app), recording decisions and follow-ups.
  • Command Center — the hub behind the + button in the prompt bar for uploads, settings, and more.
  • Advanced Mode — a user-mode setting that reveals extra capabilities like Concepts and Collections.
  • Agents — specialized intelligence workers Chief spins up to get larger jobs done.
ℹ️ Good to Know: Chief also has intelligence levels you’ll see while chatting: Automatic, Fast, Expert, and Deep Intelligence. Automatic switches between Fast and Expert based on the complexity of your prompt; Deep Intelligence deploys a fleet of long-running agents and requires a paid subscription.
The intelligence levels Automatic, Fast, Expert and Deep Intelligence in the Customize panel

FAQ

A Skill is a specific ability you invoke by mentioning it in a chat. An Expert Voice changes how Chief responds — it answers as a particular subject-matter expert. You can use them together.
They appear only in Advanced mode. Switch your User Mode to “Advanced” in Settings → General to reveal them.
Yes. Chief uses “chat” and “chat thread” to mean the same thing — a single conversation.