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An AI workspace for ideas that branch
Asterism AI puts your AI conversations, notes, and summaries on one infinite canvas. Branch from any message, connect the notes each chat should see, and bring what you learn back together.
Why a canvas
Linear chat was built for one question at a time
Branching muddies the context
Trying a second approach means starting a new thread from scratch, or dragging the first attempt along with it.
You cannot see what the model reads
Context builds up invisibly in one long transcript. There is no way to choose what the next answer draws on.
Conclusions drift away from their reasons
Findings get copied into a separate document, and the path that led to them is lost in the scrollback.
Features
Think with AI, spatially
Every conversation, note, and summary is a node. The connections between them decide what each conversation knows.
Branch from any message
Fork a conversation at the exact message where the idea splits. Each branch keeps its own clean history.
Choose what the AI sees
Connections carry meaning. Link a note or another chat and it becomes context; nothing else on the canvas is sent.
Summarize and merge
Distill a selection of nodes into a summary, or merge branches into one conversation you can keep talking to.
Rewrite input with injectors
Save a reusable instruction that rewrites your message on its own model before it reaches the chat.
Zoom out to see the shape
Zoom out for the outline of a whole investigation, zoom in to read and write. Detail follows the zoom level.
Write notes in Markdown
Keep your own notes beside the AI in a Markdown editor that preserves tables, task lists, and images.
Models and data
Your models, your canvas
- Auto is included
- Accounts come with 20 Auto requests a day, served by MiniMax. No API key needed to start.
- Bring your own key
- Add an Anthropic or OpenAI key to chat with Claude or GPT. Keys are encrypted at rest and only used on the server.
- Canvases stay in your browser
- Canvases are saved in this browser, not on Asterism AI's servers, and only the context you connect is sent to a model. Export to JSON or Markdown at any time.
Start your first canvas
Sign in and ask a question. When it starts to branch, let it.