What is a Custom AI
A Custom AI is an AI you build around a chosen set of knowledge — your docs, boards, books, or favorite creators — so every chat starts inside the right context instead of a blank box.
A Custom AI is an AI you build around a chosen set of knowledge. Pick the material — a board of research, a folder of past issues, a stack of book highlights, a few creators you trust — give it instructions, and every chat with it starts inside that world instead of a blank box.
Generic AI chat knows a little about everything and nothing about your work. A Custom AI flips that: it's deliberately narrow. You decide exactly what it can see and how it should behave, and it stays that way across every conversation.
Think of it as a room you furnish once. The books on the shelf, the notes on the desk, the expert voices you invited in — they're all still there tomorrow. You just walk in and start talking.
What's inside one
- A name and a face — so "Newsletter Writer" and "Study Partner" feel like different places, because they are.
- Instructions — how it behaves, what it's for, what a good answer looks like.
- Knowledge — the boards, notes, files, and creators it draws from. Live sources stay current: update the board, and the AI sees the new version.
- Conversation starters — useful first questions, one tap away.
- Its own chats — every conversation with it is collected in one place.
Who it's for
- Creators and writers — a writing partner loaded with your voice, your past work, and your standards, so drafts come out sounding like you.
- Creatives — a research companion built from a swipe file, a moodboard, or a pile of reference material you actually chose.
- Learners — chat with a set of books, courses, or videos like a study tool, or be mentored by a creator whose thinking you want to absorb.
- Marketers — one AI per brand or client, each sealed inside its own positioning, audience, and voice, so nothing bleeds between accounts.
The core idea: narrowed context
The reason a Custom AI gives better answers isn't magic — it's focus. When the AI only looks at the twelve documents that matter, it can't wander off into generic advice. Every reply is grounded in material you picked, and Eden shows you which sources it used under each answer, so you can check its work.
Where to find them
Open Custom AI in the sidebar. My AIs lists the ones in your workspace; Explore has ready-made ones built by Eden you can install in one click. Custom AIs work the same on the web, iPhone, and Android — start a chat on your laptop, continue on your phone.
A good first move
Install one from Explore and talk to it for two minutes — that's the fastest way to feel the difference between a blank chat and a furnished room. Then create your first Custom AI around something you already have: a board, a project, or the newsletter you write every week.
Create your first Custom AI
Three ways to build one — a guided chat that interviews you, a voice builder that studies your writing, or a blank form where you set everything yourself.
Connecting knowledge to a Custom AI
Attach boards, notes, files, links, and creators. Live sources stay current on their own, and every answer shows you exactly which sources it used.
Using Eden's built-in Custom AIs
The Explore tab has ready-made Custom AIs built and maintained by Eden — install one, preview the knowledge it ships with, and save the useful pieces to your Library.
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