Quickstart
Get from first chat to a grounded Springbase workflow in minutes.
The 2-Minute Sprint
If you want to see Springbase work right away, start here.
- Sign up at springbase.ai with Google or email.
- Open Chat and ask a real question using one of the available frontier models.
- Try Plan Mode by describing a bigger goal, such as "research this market and turn it into a launch plan." Springbase will break the work into steps and execute the plan.
Springbase is more than another AI chat. The moment you add your own knowledge, it becomes a personalized execution engine for your work.
Build Your Knowledge Base With Contexts
Contexts are the heart of Springbase. They let the AI answer from your source material instead of guessing from general knowledge.
1. Create a Context
Think of a Context as a focused knowledge base for one topic, team, project, or workflow.
- Go to Contexts.
- Choose Create New Context.
- Give it a clear name, icon, and description.
Good first Contexts include:
- Company wiki
- Product specs
- Customer support docs
- Sales enablement material
- Meeting archive
- Q3 planning notes
2. Add Your Sources
You can start with simple uploads, then connect live sources when you want the knowledge base to stay fresh.
| Source type | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Static uploads | PDFs, Markdown, TXT, and code files. |
| Live sources | Slack, Notion, GitHub, Google Drive, and other connected tools. |
| Community Contexts | Public knowledge bases you can equip into your own workspace. |
3. Mention the Context in Chat
Once your source material is in Springbase, mention the Context directly from Chat with @.
@CompanyWiki What is our policy on remote work?
Springbase will use that Context as grounding and show citations when answers come from source documents.
Put Springbase To Work
Once your knowledge is connected, you can turn one-off AI work into repeatable systems.
| Feature | What it does | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Recipes | Reusable prompt templates with variables. | Weekly reports, blog outlines, customer replies, code reviews. |
| Plans | Dynamic multi-step execution for complex goals. | Research, analysis, content repurposing, decision prep. |
| Agents | AI workflows that can use connected tools. | Updating systems, monitoring sources, moving work across apps. |
| Citations | Links back to the exact source material behind an answer. | Fact-checking, legal review, technical accuracy, support quality. |
Community And Sharing
You do not need to build every knowledge base from scratch.
- Discover public Contexts created by the community.
- Equip a useful Context to add it to your workspace instantly.
- Publish your own Context when it is useful for others.
Visibility Settings
| Visibility | Who can use it |
|---|---|
| Private | Only you and people you explicitly share with. |
| Unlisted | Anyone with the direct link. |
| Public | Discoverable by the Springbase community. |
Pro Tips
- Start small. One strong Context with a few trusted files is better than a messy knowledge dump.
- Watch citations. Click source references to verify where an answer came from.
- Use live sources for changing knowledge. Slack channels, GitHub repos, and Google Drive folders are great when the source changes often.
- Turn wins into Recipes. When a prompt works more than once, save it as a reusable Recipe.
- Save useful Plans. If a Plan produces a great workflow, keep it so you can rerun it with new inputs later.
Next Steps
- Create your first Context.
- Ask three real questions from Chat.
- Save the best prompt as a Recipe.
- Try Plan Mode on a goal that has more than one step.
Related docs
Learn how to use Springbase Chat with Contexts, @mentions, shared knowledge, live sources, saved outputs, permissions, and practical prompt templates.
Learn how to build living knowledge bases in Springbase with documents, notes, shared access, live sources, community Contexts, and grounded Chat.
Turn reliable prompts into reusable templates with variables and optional Contexts.