I'm Jay Hack, ClickUp's Head of AI. We just shipped Brain². AMA!
Hey r/ClickUp,
I'm Jay and I lead the AI team here at ClickUp. For the past year my team has been rebuilding ClickUp Brain from the ground up to be a frontier agent offering - We call it Brain².
The short version: Brain² is designed to actually do work with you, not just answer questions. It has full context on your workspace, can take action (create tasks, update projects, search across your tools, draft docs), and reasons across multiple pieces of work instead of treating each prompt like an isolated question. It also has memory, so it learns how you work over time.
Some things I'm happy to dig into:
- What's actually different under the hood vs. the old Brain
- Where Brain² saves real time in day-to-day workflows
- How we think about autonomy vs. keeping humans in control
- The best first use cases if you're just trying it out
- How connected apps and cross-workspace reasoning works
- What feedback from early users changed our direction
- How I think about building useful AI inside a productivity tool (vs. chat-in-a-box)
I'll be answering questions live on the post, Tuesday, July 7th, from 9am to 11am PT. Drop questions below now, and I'll hit them when I'm there.
Thanks! Excited to chat.
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A bit about me:
A bit about me: I've been at ClickUp building the AI org since the acquisition of Codegen, a startup I built over the past 4 years for agentic software engineering. Before that I was doing ML research and building AI products at Palantir and various startups. I think most "AI features" in SaaS are demos pretending to be products, and my job is making sure ours isn't. Happy to talk about that tension too.