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A Project is your shared workspace

Chief Projects - a Project workspace in the Chief interface
A Project bundles your files, chats, and team into one place in Chief. Everything you add to a Project — uploaded documents, the Knowledge you build, every chat, and the people you invite — lives inside that Project and stays separated from your other work. Think of a Project the way you’d think of a folder that can also think. For example, a marketing team might create a “Q3 Campaign” Project, drop in the brief, brand guidelines, and past performance reports, invite three colleagues, and then chat with Chief about all of it together. When a teammate opens that same Project, they see the same files and can pick up the same conversations — no re-uploading, no forwarding.

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What’s inside a Project

Chief Projects - the Project navigation Library Chats Concepts and more
  • Library — the files and Knowledge you’ve added for Chief to reason over.
  • Chats — your conversations with Chief, grounded in that Project’s Library.
  • Members — the people you’ve invited, each with a role (Owner, Collaborator, or Reader).
  • Plan & billing — which subscription funds the usage in the Project.

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How Projects keep work separate

Chief always works inside one active Project at a time. The files and chats you see, and the Knowledge Chief draws on when it answers, all come from the Project you’re currently in. Switching Projects swaps the entire context — so personal research stays out of your team’s shared space, and one client’s documents never bleed into another’s. Every account starts with a default Project so you have somewhere to work immediately. You can rename it, but you can’t delete it.
ℹ️ Good to know: Chats in a Project connected to the Google integration start Private — only you can see them. This keeps mailbox and calendar content from being shared with the whole Project until you choose to share a chat.

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Frequently asked questions

No. Your account comes with a default Project, so you can start chatting and adding files right away. Create additional Projects when you want to separate a body of work or collaborate with a specific group.
Only people you invite. A Project is private to its members until you share it by email, by domain, or with a secret link.
Files belong to the Project they were added to. If a file seems missing, you’re likely in a different Project — switch to the one where you uploaded it. Chief never mixes files across Projects.