AI automation is a team sport. Recipes get written by one person, reviewed by another, and run by a third. Workflows cross department boundaries. Outputs need sign-off from stakeholders who didn’t build the automation. Yet most AI platforms treat every user as if they’re working alone.
JieGou’s real-time collaboration suite changes that. Here’s what it includes and why each piece matters.
Presence: know who’s here
When you open a recipe or workflow run, you can see which teammates are looking at the same page. Presence indicators show online, idle, and offline status across the console. This sounds small, but it eliminates the “hey, are you looking at this?” Slack messages that interrupt deep work.
Route-level tracking goes further — you don’t just see that a teammate is online, you see that they’re on the same workflow run you are. That’s the signal to start a conversation.
Contextual chat: discuss where the work lives
Every recipe run, workflow run, and recipe detail page has its own chat panel. When you spot an issue with an AI output, you don’t screenshot it and paste it into Slack. You type a message right next to the output, @mention the recipe owner, and they get notified instantly.
Messages are attached to the specific run, so when you revisit a run weeks later, the conversation is still there. Search works across all messages in a thread, making it easy to find past decisions.
Team chat: one shared space
Not every conversation belongs on a specific run. The platform-wide team chat drawer gives your team a place for quick questions, coordination, and general discussion. It’s accessible from anywhere in the console and supports full-text search across all messages.
Typing indicators show when someone is composing a message, so you know a response is coming without having to ask.
Screen sharing: show, don’t tell
Some things are easier to demonstrate than describe. JieGou’s built-in screen sharing lets you walk a teammate through a workflow configuration, review AI outputs together in real time, or onboard a new team member by showing them around.
Powered by Daily.co, screen sharing starts with one click and works entirely in the browser — no downloads, no meeting links, no context switching to Zoom.
Follow mode: co-browse in real time
Follow mode takes screen sharing a step further. Instead of watching a shared screen, you see your teammate’s cursor overlaid on your own view of the console. As they navigate between pages, you follow along automatically.
This is especially useful for:
- Onboarding — A senior team member walks through the console while a new hire follows along in their own browser
- Debugging — “Show me exactly where the workflow fails” becomes “I can see your cursor — click on that step”
- Review sessions — Walk through a workflow’s logic step by step with the whole team watching
Recording: async collaboration for distributed teams
Not everyone can be online at the same time. Session recording captures screen sharing sessions so teammates in other time zones can replay them later. Recordings are stored and browsable from a dedicated page, making it easy to find and review past sessions.
Why this matters for AI specifically
Traditional automation (Zapier, Make) doesn’t need collaboration features because the automations are simple enough to build and review alone. AI automation is different:
- Prompt quality is subjective — You need team input to determine if an AI output meets the bar
- Workflows are complex — Multi-step workflows with conditions, loops, and approval gates are hard to reason about solo
- Outputs affect customers — A bad AI-generated email or report goes to real people, so review matters
- Iteration is constant — Recipes and workflows improve through feedback, which requires conversation
Building collaboration into the automation platform — rather than relying on external tools — keeps context intact, reduces tool sprawl, and makes it natural to review and improve AI work as a team.
Get started
Real-time presence and contextual chat are available on all Pro plans. Screen sharing, follow mode, and session recording are available on Enterprise. Learn more about collaboration features or start your free trial.