How to set up a company brain (step by step)

The DIY path (what you would build)

• Inventory where decisions and owners actually live — not where the handbook says they should.
• Pipe events from Slack, Jira, GitHub, and calendar into a single memory model (people, projects, decisions, tickets).²
• Add retrieval that respects permissions — agents must not see what interns cannot see.
• Wire Model Context Protocol or API access so agents query live context, not a one-off export.³
• Put approval gates on every write-back to production systems.
• Run a 30-day pilot with one squad before you declare company-wide rollout.

Vectorize's build guide is honest: stitching pipelines, evals, and governance is real engineering.¹ Most teams underestimate step four and five.

The Morrow path (we set it up with you)

• Discovery call — tools, compliance boundaries, and which agent roles matter first (CEO summary, product, support, etc.).
• Connect — OAuth into Slack, Jira, GitHub, Notion, Linear, Google or Microsoft workspace; we validate scopes.
• Memory rooms — projects, decisions, and timelines mapped to how you already work — not a generic folder tree.
• Agent policies — who Mor can draft for, what requires a second approver, which channels are read-only.
• Pilot week — morning reports, one approval workflow, retro with your ops lead.
• Handoff — admins trained; optional Enterprise for SSO, SCIM, VPC, or air-gapped deploy.

Download vs. guided cloud

Founders often start with the Mac or Windows app — local-first, your machine holds project data. Business and Enterprise teams typically want shared workspace, seat governance, and us in the loop for setup. Same product; different deployment. See /enterprise for VPC and self-hosted options.

If you are comparing build vs. buy: the buy is not a license alone. It is us standing up the brain on your tools so you skip the integration science project.