Introducing Notebooks: a new way to build AI workflows for experts
Today marks the biggest leap Normain has taken. We are launching Notebooks, a new way to turn your expertise into AI workflows your whole team can use. The people who know the work best can now build the AI that performs it, so your team’s hardest, most valuable work is no longer limited to a handful of senior people.
Scale your expertise
Your team’s edge is its proprietary knowledge and the way your best people work. A Notebook turns that into workflows anyone can pick up and put to work, so the quality of your strongest expert shows up on every job. It builds on the templates and know-how you already rely on, keeping your IP in your team’s hands while scaling it. The result is days of expert work done in hours, and at a higher quality, because your best approach is applied consistently, every time. That is what lets your team take on more work and raise the bar as they do it.
Most of us are familiar with the endless AI chat threads, with buried answers that are difficult to find or to prove, and a method that is impossible to scale. Notebooks change that completely. Your instructions, the results they produced, and the citation behind every answer sit side by side in a single view, the whole method captured in one place for anyone to carry forward.
A virtual machine for every task
Notebooks are built on a completely new approach to AI. Every task gets its own virtual machine, a computer of its own. That is what lets it do the real, precise work on your documents: open your actual files, work across hundreds at a time, check itself before answering, and write the finished result directly into a real Word, Excel or PDF in your own template. Normain can also propose its edits as suggestions you accept or reject, so nothing changes without your sign-off.
And you can always see exactly how it got there. For every step, you can see the line of reasoning, the files and passages used, and the citation behind every answer. That is what makes the work defensible, right down to the last line.
Start your first Notebook
Bring your most complex, document-heavy work and break it into plain-language steps, the same way you would brief a colleague or lay out a checklist. Each step feeds into the next, all the way to the finished deliverable, which can be built from scratch or straight into a template you already use, always with the citation carried through. When a Notebook works the way you want, save it as a template and share it with the whole team, and the next engagement starts from a finalised method, not a blank page.
Not sure where to start? Describe what you want to build in the chat and watch Normain draft the steps for you live.
“The hardest thing to grow in any team has always been judgement. It sits with a few people, and everyone else picks it up slowly. Notebooks hand that judgement to the whole team at once, so a smaller group takes on more, moves faster, and holds to the standard of its very best.”
Sara Landfors CEO and co-founder of Normain See it live
Notebooks are available today. Open Normain, start a Notebook, and describe the first piece of work you want to build.
Want to see it first? Join our live demos on Tuesday, 27 October, where we build a Notebook end to end on a complex, document-heavy case and take all your questions.
If you already have a process in mind and want a hand setting it up, book a demo and we’d be happy to build it with you.