What is a Box?
Goal
Understand what a Box is, what goes in one, and when to use a Box instead of a regular chat or folder.
What a Box is
A Box is a shared space for a specific purpose: a course, a research lab, a grant, a team project. Everyone in the Box works from the same instructions and the same files, and each chat can draw on what's already been said in the Box's other chats. You set things up once, and nobody has to explain the project to the AI again.
Boxes is new, so it carries a Beta label in the main menu while we keep improving it.
What's in a Box
Instructions: guidance you write once for the whole Box, like the tone, the audience or the rules. Every chat in the Box follows them. See How to write instructions for a Box.
Box Knowledge: files every chat in the Box can use, like a syllabus, a rubric, an SOP or survey results. See How to add knowledge to a Box.
Chats and folders: everyone's chats for the project, sorted into folders. See How chats work inside a Box and How to organize a Box.
People: the people you invite, or who join with the link. Everyone in a Box can see and work on everything in it. See How to share a Box and add people.
Box, chat or folder?
Use | When |
|---|---|
A regular chat | A one-off question, or work that's just for you. |
A folder | You want to sort your own chats. A folder doesn't share instructions or files with the chats in it. |
A Box | A group is working toward one goal over time and every chat should know the same background. |
Examples
A course team keeps the syllabus, the grading rubric and the course policies in one Box, so every chat drafting feedback or materials follows them.
A research lab keeps its safety SOP and protocols in a Box, so new lab members get consistent answers.
A grant team works through drafts in one Box, and each new chat can pick up what the team already decided.
A work team keeps a product launch in one Box, and can bring in a client or contractor by email.
Get started
Still stuck?
See Troubleshooting Boxes, or reach out through our contact form and we'll get back to you.