What you take on by building your own
Approvals and governance
You design and maintain the approval flow yourself, and keep it current every time a new tool is added.
Model routing
You wire up provider APIs, choose models per integration, and update that wiring as providers and models change.
Connectors
Each connector is a custom integration your team writes, tests, and keeps working as the external system changes.
Web, desktop, and Slack
Web is one build. Desktop and Slack presence each mean another integration to design and maintain.
Sidekick vs. a built-in-house workbench
Sidekick is the governed workbench so your team doesn’t have to build and maintain one. It does not replace a bespoke internal service where that service is the product itself, or so specific to your business that it can’t be a shared, company-wide tool. Choosing Sidekick is a decision about a company-wide AI workbench, not a substitute for a system you’re building to sell or to run your core business on.
Where to go next
Governance model
How user and administrator approvals control sensitive actions.
How work runs
Choose a Harness and decide where Sidekick should run the work.
Web, desktop, and Slack
One product across web, desktop, and Slack.
Plan a rollout
Bring Sidekick to a team or the whole company with a staged plan.