# HeyBrain opens Brain to all, with two data connectors listed as live

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> Published: 2026-09-24 00:41:17+00:00

# HeyBrain opens Brain to all, with two data connectors listed as live

**The company pitches a shared workspace for people and AI agents; its product site lists Google Drive and Notion as the sources currently available.**

        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
        · Published 

Primary source: [X](https://x.com/Heybrainio/status/2102745051273244808)

## Why it matters

Brain is selling a governance layer for workplace AI: shared context for staff and agents, with access rules and usage monitoring intended to travel across tools. Its currently listed connectors set a narrower launch scope than the announcement's broad integration pitch.

HeyBrain says its Brain AI workspace is generally available as of September 23rd, offering companies a shared place for employees and AI agents to query company knowledge under existing access controls. The launch was announced in a [21-post thread on X](https://x.com/Heybrainio/status/2102745051273244808); the product is presented on [HeyBrain's Brain site](https://heybrain.io/), which uses the name AIVM Brain.

[https://x.com/Heybrainio/status/2102745051273244808](https://x.com/Heybrainio/status/2102745051273244808)

The pitch targets a familiar problem in workplace AI: staff use separate chat tools, agents operate in separate environments, and company information sits in disconnected systems. HeyBrain says Brain provides one shared knowledge layer, checks a person's or agent's permissions before returning information, and tracks usage across employees, agents, models, API keys and workflows. The company also says teams can use their existing AI tools rather than replace them.

The product's central promise is controlled access to shared context. That is a more specific proposition than another company chatbot: an employee and an AI agent could query the same connected sources, while receiving different results based on their permissions. The company's site says Brain cites the sources behind its answers and records access in a content-blind audit log. Those are product claims; the announcement does not provide independent security testing or customer evidence to establish how the controls perform in deployment.

The list of integrations needs a closer read. In the launch thread, HeyBrain names Slack, Drive, Notion, GitHub, Cursor, Codex and Claude as parts of the stack Brain can connect across. The [product site's current FAQ](https://heybrain.io/) is narrower: it lists Google Drive and Notion as live knowledge sources, and Claude, Cursor and Codex as AI clients connected through MCP, the Model Context Protocol. It identifies Slack, GitHub and several other services as roadmap items, not available integrations. The announcement's broad description therefore should not be read as saying every named service is already a live data connector.

That distinction shapes what customers can test at launch. The current product description says Brain retrieves from connected sources, carries over their permissions and answers with citations. The site also says the service is hosted by HeyBrain, rather than available for companies to run on their own infrastructure. Its value rests on whether organizations trust a third-party service to sit between their existing systems and AI tools, and whether the access checks work consistently across employees and agents.

HeyBrain also frames AI usage as a cost-management problem. Its announcement promises a single view of usage across models, agents and workflows, but gives no launch metrics on spending reductions, customer adoption, or the number of companies using Brain. The [pricing page](https://heybrain.io/pricing) lists a free team tier and a Pro Team plan at $30 per seat per month. Those prices make the launch accessible for evaluation; the announcement offers no evidence yet about how much usage or expansion the product can sustain in larger deployments.

Brain enters a market where vendors are trying to make company information usable by AI without giving every user or agent blanket access. HeyBrain's proposed wedge is to pair shared context with source-level permissions and usage monitoring, while leaving companies' model and interface choices in place. That can reduce the repeated work of supplying context to separate AI tools, if the integrations and permission controls hold up in real workflows.

For now, the launch establishes availability and the product's intended operating model, rather than proof of scale. The sharp test is whether Brain can connect enough of a company's information to be useful while honoring the access rules that make that information safe to share. The live connector list on the product site is a concrete starting point: Google Drive and Notion, with other named sources still marked as planned.
