Multi-Assistant Collaboration

Now that you’ve learned how to interact with a single assistant, let’s explore one of Envole’s most powerful features: getting multiple assistants to work together on complex tasks. When you need diverse expertise or want different perspectives on a challenge, you can bring multiple specialized assistants into the conversation with a simple @-mention.

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Why Use Multiple Assistants?

Sometimes a single assistant, no matter how capable, isn’t enough. Maybe you’re working on a product feature that needs both technical and marketing input, or you’re tackling a customer issue that requires both support and sales perspectives. Instead of having separate conversations with different assistants, Envole lets you bring the right expertise together in one seamless collaboration. The beauty of multi-assistant collaboration is that it happens automatically. You simply mention the assistants you want to involve, and Envole coordinates everything behind the scenes, ensuring you get comprehensive, well-rounded responses.

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How to Start a Collaboration

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Step 1: Find Available Assistants

When you’re typing in the chat, simply type the @ symbol to see all the assistants available in your organization. A dropdown will appear showing all the assistants you can collaborate with. Each assistant has a unique handle (like @sales_enrichment, @product, @engineering) that makes it easy to identify their specialization.

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Step 2: Mention Multiple Assistants in Your Message

To start a collaboration, simply mention two or more assistants in your message. You can write naturally - there’s no special syntax or complicated commands to remember. In this example, the user is asking for help creating a Product Requirements Document (PRD) and mentions @sales_enrichment to get input about marketing and sales widgets. You can write your request just like you would in a normal conversation, mentioning the assistants whose expertise you need.

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Step 3: Collaboration Begins Automatically

Once Envole detects that you’ve mentioned multiple assistants, it automatically initiates the collaboration process. You’ll see a “Collaboration response complete” indicator, letting you know that the assistants are working together on your request. During this phase, Envole is coordinating between the different assistants, ensuring they understand the context and can provide complementary insights. You don’t need to do anything - just wait for the collaborative response.

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Step 4: Receive Your Collaborative Response

The result is a comprehensive response that combines the expertise of all the assistants you mentioned. You’ll see which assistant contributed which parts of the response, giving you transparency into the collaboration. In this example, @sales_enrichment provides detailed information about marketing and sales widgets, including specific recommendations for pipeline tracking, communication sync, deal flagging, and performance dashboards. The response is thorough and actionable because it draws on the assistant’s specialized knowledge. After the specialized assistant provides their expertise, the main assistant you were originally interacting with often follows up to tie everything together and provide additional context or next steps. This follow-up response from your primary assistant helps synthesize the collaborative input and ensures you have a complete, actionable path forward. The main assistant acts as a coordinator, making sure all the specialized knowledge comes together in a way that directly addresses your original request.

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Key Benefits of Multi-Assistant Collaboration

Comprehensive Expertise: Get insights from multiple specialized assistants in a single response, ensuring you don’t miss important perspectives. Seamless Coordination: Envole handles all the coordination automatically - you don’t need to manage separate conversations or merge different responses yourself. Context Preservation: All assistants understand the full context of your request, ensuring their responses work together rather than conflicting. Time Savings: Instead of having multiple separate conversations, you get everything you need in one comprehensive response. Quality Improvement: Multiple perspectives often lead to better solutions, catching potential issues or opportunities that a single viewpoint might miss.

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When to Use Multi-Assistant Collaboration

Multi-assistant collaboration is particularly valuable when:

• Cross-functional projects: When you need input from different departments or specializations (like product + engineering, or sales + marketing)
• Complex problem-solving: When a challenge requires multiple types of expertise to solve effectively
• Comprehensive planning: When you’re creating documents, strategies, or plans that benefit from diverse perspectives
• Risk assessment: When you want multiple viewpoints to identify potential issues or opportunities
• Learning and exploration: When you’re entering unfamiliar territory and want to understand different aspects of a topic

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Tips for Effective Collaboration

Be specific about what you need: The more context you provide, the better the assistants can tailor their collaborative response. Instead of “help me with this project,” try “help me create a go-to-market strategy for our new feature.” Choose the right assistants: Think about what types of expertise your request requires. If you’re working on a customer issue, you might want @support and @sales. For a technical project, consider @engineering and @product. Ask follow-up questions: If the collaborative response raises new questions or you need deeper insight into specific areas, don’t hesitate to continue the conversation or mention additional assistants. Use natural language: There’s no need for special commands or formatting. Write your requests as you would naturally speak, mentioning the assistants you want to involve.

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Getting the Most Value

The goal of multi-assistant collaboration isn’t just to get more information - it’s to get better information. By bringing together different perspectives, you’re more likely to:

• Identify blind spots in your thinking
• Discover innovative solutions you hadn’t considered
• Avoid potential pitfalls by getting diverse viewpoints
• Create more robust and well-rounded strategies

Remember, you’re not just getting multiple answers to the same question - you’re getting a coordinated response where each assistant contributes their unique expertise to create something more valuable than the sum of its parts.

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What’s Next?

Now that you understand how to leverage multiple assistants working together, you’re ready to tackle more complex challenges with confidence. Whether you’re planning a product launch, solving a customer issue, or exploring new business opportunities, you have a team of specialized assistants ready to collaborate on your behalf. As you become more comfortable with multi-assistant collaboration, you’ll start to recognize patterns in which combinations of assistants work best for different types of tasks. This intuition will help you get even more value from the platform over time. Ready to dive deeper into Envole’s capabilities? Check out our API Integration guide to learn how developers can build on these collaboration features.