Workspaces (co-work)
Workspaces are persistent, shareable Databasin One sessions: a room where a team keeps its data sources, uploaded files, chats and published artifacts.
A workspace is a named, persistent, shareable Databasin One session. Normal chat is ephemeral: close the tab and the context is gone. Workspaces fix that: they live in Databasin One, save themselves as you work, and can be handed to a teammate.
What a workspace is
Think of a workspace as a save file for an analysis. It keeps the conversation, every question and every answer, and the context you were working in, so you can reopen it later and pick up exactly where you left off. Share it, and a teammate can continue the same thread instead of starting over.
Why this matters
Two common frustrations disappear:
- "I'll just save the answer." People paste Databasin One answers into docs because the chat is throwaway. A workspace makes the whole session the thing you save, not just the conclusion, but the path you took to reach it.
- "Let's continue this tomorrow." Closing the tab and coming back is the most common workflow there is. With a workspace it just works.
Starting one
You can create a workspace from scratch, or convert an active chat into one: handy when a quick question turns into something worth keeping. Give it a name and a description, and it's yours.
Auto-save
Workspaces save themselves. About two seconds after the agent finishes responding, the workspace persists in the background. There's no save button. A small indicator shifts from Saving… to Saved so you know the state is safe.
Roles
Shared workspaces have two roles:
- Viewer: can open and read the session and download artifacts, but not change the conversation.
- Editor: full access: ask new questions, refine charts, generate documents.
Both roles run under their own data permissions. Sharing a workspace never escalates what someone can query: if a teammate can't see a table, opening your workspace won't change that.
Sharing and housekeeping
- Share a workspace with specific people in your org.
- List everything you own or have been shared into.
- Browse long sessions: message history is append-only and pages in as you scroll back, so even a sprawling analysis stays quick to load.
- Archive or delete when a workspace has run its course.