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Genie

Published October 28, 2026 · by the AQ team

Genie is your personal assistant in AQ: one standing thread per person that knows your work. Turn it on from the Bots menu in the sidebar, the rail button or your phone. Underneath it is a bot with a job you can read and change.

What Genie does

  • A morning briefing on a schedule in your time zone.
  • What needs you from mail and meetings, through your connected Gmail and Google Calendar.
  • AQ work waiting on you, and what your bots did.
  • Code work, through a work item it starts after asking you.

Drafts, never sends

Genie writes drafts and leaves sending to you. Anything outward follows the per-tool permission you set in integrations. When Genie needs a yes, a Needs you card appears in its thread on every screen; on the iPhone app it also arrives as a notification.

Voice

Where voice is enabled for your organization, you can talk to Genie. What you say lands in the same Genie thread as a message, so voice and text share one history, and questions that need your consent show up as a card in the thread as well as on the voice screen. Product overview: Genie.

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