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Use Cairn AI to open up an idea, sharpen your writing, automate the boring half of your week, surface the thing you half-remember, and try a different shape of process — in the same place you already work and think.
We paired space set-up with AI so you can start faster and try a different shape of process without a weekend of clicking. Write a short prompt and Cairn AI builds a space that matches it.
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I run a two-person studio taking freelance contracts across three countries. I want to organise contracts, expenses and income so I can see which clients are actually worth it, and keep notes on every project I've worked on.
Freelance studio ops — space created
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Arrhythmic work is a schedule that isn't bound by routine or monotony. It means injecting variety into your week to spark creativity and new ideas. Routine can flatten job satisfaction because it narrows the scope for new thinking.
Benefits of an arrhythmic schedule
How to inject arrhythmia into the week
Yes, you may reward yourself with eight hours of rest after setting up a custom space in about two minutes.
Formulas in Cairn are genuinely powerful, but you have to learn the syntax to write them. Now you can draft one from a plain-language request and edit from there.
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ƒ # all references
ƒ Cycle time
ƒ Duration
# all references
A number (integer or decimal)
Example: multiply two number fields
"Proficient in spreadsheets" on your CV has never been this close to the truth.
Improve writing, summarise, brainstorm, and plan without pinch-switching to another tab. It all happens inside the document you already have open.
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Rewrite this section so a customer who has never opened the changelog can follow it, keep it under 120 words, and don't promise anything we haven't actually shipped.
Draft: Release 14.2 makes the weekly review quicker. Saved filters now travel with a view, so opening a board on Monday shows the same slice you left on Friday. Comments thread properly on long documents, and the export dialog stops asking twice.
Tone: plain · Length: 96 words · Reading level: 8
Still your writing. Just fewer wasted Tuesdays.
Describe the rule you keep re-doing by hand and let Cairn AI wire it up: a trigger, a condition, and the action you'd otherwise perform 40 times a month.
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· Billing question from Marloes → tagged Finance, priority High
· Refund request from Halvard → linked to Bug #418, owner notified
· Feature idea from Petra → moved to Ideas, thanked automatically
Forty small chores a month, quietly folded away.
Search on the meaning of your query, not the exact words. Even when you only half-remember the phrasing, the right note usually comes back first.
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Hi all — for security reasons we'd like to turn the sharing option off, or at least review every shared entity. Is that possible?
[Margot Ellery]:
Not possible to switch off today. Moved to the Ideas space — I'll ask the team whether a list of shared entities is feasible.
[Laurence Gillan]:
This is also something we'd very much like the ability to do.
[Jean]:
Easiest route would be a sharing action on the audit log — from there you could simply filter it.
Spend less time searching, and more time overthinking the results.
It works on your structure, not on a generic blob of text. Because Cairn already knows your databases, relations and views, the model can create a whole space, write a formula against real field names, or link a note to the exact feature it belongs to.
A mix of hosted large language models and our own retrieval layer. We keep the provider list current in the docs rather than in marketing copy, because it changes more often than this page does.
Every workspace gets 400 free AI actions to start. After that it's $9 per active user per month, billed with the rest of your plan. No separate contract, no per-token maths.
Your content is never used to train third-party models. Requests are sent over encrypted channels, retained for 30 days for abuse monitoring, then deleted. Admins can switch AI off per space, and we're GDPR and SOC 2 Type II compliant.
The user guide has a full AI chapter with every prompt pattern we use internally, and the community forum is where the genuinely odd use cases show up first.
Try Cairn AI free and quietly retire a few of the other tools once you like it. 🧡
What other tool lets you not just auto-create one database from a description, but several interconnected ones? That's a genuine innovation — it helps everyone build more complex, more useful workflows without paying the usual setup cost. Plenty of people are piling onto the AI train; rather fewer have thought about what the carriage is for.
This is genuinely lovely. I created a handful of test spaces and I'm still slightly stunned at how good it is. Future versions of this are going to be hard to argue with. I don't understand why more people on the other platforms haven't moved across yet.
OK — in two minutes I set up a CMS for a travel blog that tracks articles, keywords, keyword clusters, deadlines, resources and sources. It's a little spooky. What would have taken me hours took no effort at all. For a small team this is genuinely transformative. (And no, I don't know these people.)
The product keeps improving, and when there's a new piece of tech to implement they don't just splash it across the UI — they go deep and make it properly useful. Anyone can bolt a summariser onto a text box now. Letting the model work with your actual structure and create spaces and fields? That's a smart use.
Possibilities feel endless. I'm currently designing prompts for content creation — so far I've built a table of content ideas generated from a selected input, plus prompts for metaphors and analogies drawn from the same input. Works beautifully.
Very good. Looking forward to AI-supported report generation and the knowledge assistant landing.
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Gather customer feedback from every channel, link it back to features, decide what actually matters, and shape new ideas together.
Set the strategy, wire it to execution, validate ideas, research your market. Stay focused long enough to find the real insight.
Run internal and client work side by side. Track many projects at once, keep the CRM close, and watch the money — all in one place.
Backlogs, sprints, releases and the engineering wiki in one workspace. Replace most of the stack with a single tool.
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