Notion Shares Lessons from Building 100+ MCP Tools and Five AI Agent Rebuilds
Published 2026-04-17Agentic AIMedium
Summary
In a Latent Space podcast episode, Notion cofounder Simon Last and head of AI Sarah Sachs discuss the company's journey building AI agents for knowledge work, including five major rebuilds and the development of over 100 MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools. The conversation explores the practical tradeoffs between MCP-based tool integration and traditional CLI approaches, offering insights into how a major productivity platform is architecting its agentic AI capabilities at scale. The discussion
Alignment: Reinforces current position
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