> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.quiva.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Abbie

> Abbie is the AI assistant built into QuivaWorks: a teammate you talk to, hand work off to, and teach over time.

Abbie is the AI assistant built into QuivaWorks. You chat with her the way you'd message a colleague, hand her things to get on with, and she keeps working on them even after you've closed the tab.

She isn't a search box or a one-off chatbot. She has a memory of who you are and how you like to work, a backlog of things she's tracking for you, and the judgement to come back and check in rather than waiting to be asked.

<Note>
  **Abbie is not the same thing as an Assistant.** [Assistants](/assistants/overview) are bots you
  build and configure yourself, each for a particular job. Abbie is the single coworker already built
  into QuivaWorks — there is one of her, everybody gets their own, and you teach her rather than
  configure her.
</Note>

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="How she's different" icon="sparkles" href="/abbie/getting-started/how-shes-different">
    What sets Abbie apart from a typical chat assistant.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Your first conversation" icon="comment" href="/abbie/getting-started/first-conversation">
    What to expect the first time you talk to her.
  </Card>

  <Card title="The Abbie home page" icon="house" href="/abbie/getting-started/abbie-home">
    Your dashboard for everything Abbie is doing.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Chatting with Abbie" icon="messages" href="/abbie/chatting/chat-surface">
    The chat surface, stage strip, sessions and more.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What Abbie can do

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Have a real conversation" icon="comments">
    Ask her questions, ask her to draft something, ask her to look into something: she reasons about the request before answering rather than just pattern-matching a reply.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Keep a backlog" icon="list-check">
    Ask her to do something and she can keep working on it in the background, picking it back up across conversations until it's done.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Remember things" icon="brain">
    She holds onto facts about you and your organisation between conversations, so you don't have to repeat yourself.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Reach out first" icon="bell">
    With your permission, she can check in, follow up on things she's waiting on you for, and suggest ideas, on a cadence you control.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Work where you already do" icon="slack">
    Connect her to Slack and she answers in channels and threads, not just inside QuivaWorks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Learn new skills" icon="wand-magic-sparkles">
    Teach her a new skill with instructions and reference files, or import one someone else wrote.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## A note on how this is written

Abbie is under active development. This documentation only describes what's actually in the product today. Where something is planned but not yet available, we say so plainly: see [Coming soon](/abbie/reference/coming-soon).