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title: "AI"
url: https://flexie.io/resources/ai
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# AI

The built-in AI workforce: what it can do, the chat assistant, AI in workflows, specialists, knowledge bases, model settings, approvals, oversight, and connecting outside assistants.

- [Overview](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/overview.md): Flexie's AI is built into the platform and does the work, not just chat. The four building blocks, the four ways to put it to work, and the rule that keeps it safe, acting only within your permissions and asking before anything important.
- [Activity & oversight](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/activity-and-oversight.md): Everything the AI does is recorded. See what was asked, what it did, when, who ran it, and what it cost, so the assistant is accountable rather than a black box.
- [AI by text & WhatsApp](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/by-text-and-whatsapp.md): Put the AI to work from the messaging app on your phone. Text or WhatsApp the assistant for live numbers or to get a job done, no app and no login, with the same safety rules as everywhere.
- [AI in workflows](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/ai-in-workflows.md): Place an AI step inside an automated process and it does its job unattended, the same way every time, for the whole business. How the AI Agent step works, what you set, and what people build with it.
- [Approvals & safety](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/approvals-and-safety.md): Flexie's AI is careful by design. It asks before anything that changes your data, it stays inside the permissions of the person using it, and you control who is allowed to use it at all.
- [Connecting outside assistants](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/connect-outside-assistants.md): If your team already works in an AI assistant elsewhere, Flexie can safely open its abilities to it through an open standard, so it can look up records, run reports, and trigger automations without anyone leaving the tool they are in.
- [Knowledge bases (Brains)](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/knowledge-bases.md): A knowledge base, called a Brain in Flexie, is your own curated library of facts the assistant can search, read, and ground its answers in. How to build one, lock it, and assign it to an assistant.
- [Settings & models](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/settings-and-models.md): Everything that shapes the assistant in one place. Connect a provider, pick the model, add specialists, switch abilities on or off, set what needs approval, assign knowledge bases, and choose who can use it.
- [Specialists](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/specialists.md): When a request needs deep, focused work, the assistant hands it to a specialist built for that task and brings the result back. You only ever talk to one assistant. How specialists work and what you configure.
- [The chat assistant](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/chat-assistant.md): The most direct way to use Flexie's AI. Type what you need the way you would tell a capable colleague, watch it work, build on your last message, and approve before anything is sent.
- [What the assistant can do](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/what-it-can-do.md): The assistant's abilities in plain language, from finding and understanding your data to taking action, building automations, managing your setup, and reaching beyond Flexie. Every ability can be switched off or set to ask first.