Sarah Sachs

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Apr 15, 2026
Disclosure
Notion Dedicates 50 Engineers to Core AI and 40 to Packaging
“I manage, ah, the team that's what we'll call like core AI capabilities and infrastructure. That's about 50 people. But then we have, I partner teams that do packaging, so how it shows up in the corner chat versus custom agents versus meeting notes, that's ano…”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 18:11 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Insight
Coding Agents Should Write AI Model Evaluations Like Standard Unit Tests
“It's like the same way that you would have a coding agent write the unit test. You should have a coding agent write the eval.”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 29:49 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026
Insight
Optimizing Vector Embedding Models Is No Longer the Right RAG Retrieval Focus
“We don't spend a lot of time trying to optimize what vector embedding we use anymore. That was a period of time, but that's just not the right level of optimization, right?”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:18:12 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Opinion
Model Behavior Engineers Do Not Need Traditional Engineering Backgrounds
“And so, we have, like, very firm conviction And we have had for a number of years now that that is its own career path, and we have always welcomed the misfits, so to speak. So we really firmly believe that you don't need an engineering background to be the be…”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 28:49 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Insight
Frictionless AI Prototyping Requires Strong Product Conviction to Avoid Feature Bloat
“I think it's put a big pressure point on us to have really strong product conviction, because if anything can be demoed, You really need a strong filter of making sure that if, you know, you're doing X amount of work, you're making the, you're focusing on one …”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 20:52 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The Majority of Notion Enterprise Search Traffic Now Comes From AI Agents
“We're at a point right now in our business and enterprise or AI enabled plans where the search load and the search traffic, a majority of it's coming from agents, not humans.”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:15:41 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Insight
Notion Engineers Faced an Identity Crisis Shifting From Coding to AI Delegation
“Every software engineer in Notion this summer went through like this sheer one of our engineering leads at the company called it like, every software engineer is going through the identity crisis that every manager goes through, where all of a sudden they real…”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 31:17 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Notion Fine-Tunes Its AI Capabilities Entirely Without Relying on User Data
“There are certain aspects of Notion where we do fine tune and do reinforce and fine tuning on our own capabilities. But that's not necessarily trained on user data. You don't need that, that much data in the first place.”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:11:44 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Notion's Internal Bug-Triaging Custom Agent Completely Changed Company Operations
“One of our biggest use cases is bug triaging. So if someone posts something in Slack and you just have a custom agent that lives there that has its own routing constitution of what team this belongs to. Creates a task in your task database and then posts in th…”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 35:43 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026
Insight
Agent Search Prioritizes Top-K Retrieval Depth Over Precise Positional Ranking
“Positional ranking matters less, but top care retrieval mode matters more.”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:15:59 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 negative
Insight
Fine-Tuning Models on Internal Tools Unnecessarily Slows Down Rapid Product Development
“It would actually really slow us down to have a model that was fine tuned on our tools because we'd have to retrain it and cut a new model every time we did that.”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:14:18 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Insight
Goal-Driven Tool Definitions Allowed Notion to Distribute Agent Tool Ownership
“When we went away from few shots to describing the goal of the tool and like goal driven, basically moving from a DAG to like a true system with feedback, that's when we could distribute tool ownership to the teams much better.”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 54:33 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sachs: Custom Agents Was Notion's Most Successful Launch by Conversions
“It was our most successful launch in terms of free trials and converting people and things like that.”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 2:30 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026
Disclosure
Notion Feature Teams Own Their AI Evaluations Running Nightly in CI
“We maintain the eval framework. Every team owns their own evals and a lot of them we've integrated to opt into CI or we run them nightly and we have a team, a custom agent that triggers to a team to look at the major failures.”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 23:08 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026
Insight
Over-Simplifying AI Agent Interfaces Abstracts Interpretability and Nerfs Agent Capabilities
“I'd actually say we don't try and make it as easy as possible to use because the more we do that, the more we abstract away that interpretability that Simon's talking about that basically nerfs the model or nerfs the agent from being super capable.”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 57:29 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
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