Shared context
One context layer every agent reads from and writes to
Outputs, decisions, approvals, and prior runs all live in the same context layer. Any agent can query it for the context it needs.
synapse for multi-agent work
Agents coordinate through a shared context layer. Any agent reads what other agents and humans have produced, and writes its own outputs back. synapse adds permissions, guard rails, and visibility around that layer.
Concepts
An agent
Takes a goal, picks tools, and produces output.
A multi-agent setup
Multiple agents in play, each with its own role, scope, and tools.
A multi-agent workflow
Multiple agents whose outputs build on each other.
Orchestration
The shared context layer agents read from and write to, with permissions, guard rails, and visibility around it.
Inside the orchestration layer
Agents read from and write to a shared context layer. synapse adds permissions, guard rails, and visibility around it.
Shared context
Outputs, decisions, approvals, and prior runs all live in the same context layer. Any agent can query it for the context it needs.
Permissions
Read and write access is scoped per agent and per data type. The CRM agent reads deal records; the marketing agent reads positioning. Neither touches the other’s data unless you grant it.
Guard rails
Each step declares which tools it can call, which actions need approval, and what to do when an input is missing or the agent’s confidence is low.
Visibility
A timeline of every agent’s actions — the context it pulled, the tools it called, the outputs it produced, and where humans signed off.
Use cases
Release readiness across product, engineering, QA, and support
Customer escalation triage with account history and policy context
GTM campaign execution across research, copy, approvals, and follow-up
Design review with rationale, constraints, and prior decisions
QA reproduction and regression analysis across tickets, builds, and logs
Roadmap synthesis from calls, feedback, experiments, and prior decisions
Example workflows
Each one coordinates several specialist agents through the shared context layer, with named tool integrations and human approval gates. The tools listed are what the agents actually call.
An enriched prospect, intent signal, or competitor mention turns into a personalized outreach draft enrolled in a sequence.
When a meeting hits the calendar, a one-page brief on the account is on the AE’s screen before they join.
A support spike or escalated case is routed with full account context, with a draft response written in approved playbook language.
Usage drops, champion job changes, and ticket spikes compose into a single CSM action brief with a recommended play.
Before a release ships, an orchestrator confirms every gate: QA pass, support runbook updated, GTM brief written.
Recurring pain themes across Hacker News, Reddit, and LinkedIn become draft posts written in your org’s voice.
FAQ
A coordination layer that lets several AI agents work on the same process. Each agent has a role, calls the tools it needs, hands off state to the next agent, and pauses for human review when required. A working setup includes shared memory across agents, defined approval gates, and a record of every run.
Agents share an operational store of the decisions, approvals, preferences, and work history your org has already produced. Each step declares the tools it can call, the context it needs, and whether a human reviews the result. Agents read from that store at runtime and write back to it as they go.
Workflow automation runs a fixed sequence of pre-defined steps. Agent orchestration coordinates agents that decide what to do based on context, call tools as needed, and request approvals when uncertain. synapse supports both: deterministic steps for stable processes, agent steps where judgment is needed.
Through a shared store that any agent in the workflow can read and write during execution. In synapse, that store holds artifacts, approvals, nudges, and prior outputs. The next agent queries the store directly rather than relying on a human to copy details between threads.
Each agent only sees a slice of the work. One has the customer context, another has the product requirement, another has the QA exception. Without a shared store, a human ends up relaying details between them. With one, each agent looks up what earlier agents already produced.
Map the work into agent-sized missions, decide which steps need human approval, list the tools each agent needs, and define what state moves between them. In synapse, you describe the workflow once. The platform provisions agents with the right tool access, and human review points are stored for future runs.
CRMs (HubSpot, Attio, Salesforce), outbound (Instantly, Loops, Apollo), enrichment (Clay), communication (Slack, Gmail, LinkedIn), project tracking (Linear, Jira, GitHub), and document storage (Google Docs, Notion). Every tool call an agent makes is recorded as part of the workflow history.
Any step can declare a human review gate or a fallback path. When an agent hits a low-confidence decision, an out-of-policy action, or a missing input, the workflow pauses and surfaces the relevant context to the right person. After approval or correction, the workflow resumes and the correction is saved so the next run does not re-ask.
At the decisions that matter: approving risky actions, reviewing exceptions, and nudging agents when context changes. The routine relay work — restating background, copying details between threads — is what the agents handle.
No. Agents handle the coordination, context retrieval, and execution between judgment points. Humans still make the calls that require taste, accountability, or external knowledge. The shift is in what people spend time on, not how many people you need.
Both. It includes the surface for defining and editing workflows, and the runtime that executes them — agents, tools, approvals, and memory. The two are coupled so the workflows your team writes can actually run with the right context.
Product, design, engineering, QA, GTM, support, and operations teams — anywhere a process crosses roles and systems. Common examples include release readiness, customer escalation triage, QA reproduction, roadmap research, sales follow-up, and launch coordination.
Six multi-agent workflows ship today across product, GTM, and support. synapse handles the context layer, permissions, guard rails, and visibility — your team writes the workflows.