Wikis and knowledge bases
Documented onboarding, internal manuals, single source of truth for HR, product and operations. The Figmanual style.
All-in-one operating hub: wikis, project management, OKRs and knowledge bases.
100M+
users reached in 2024
5–7
tools replaced in a typical stack
50%+
of the Fortune 500
20 h/wk
saved by IT at Remote with AI agents
Featured customers of Notion
01. Context
Notion started in 2013 as a modular editor and today is a connected workspace platform: documents, wikis, databases, project management and, since 2024, a deep AI layer. It positions itself as the all-in-one alternative to the traditional stack (Confluence + Jira + Asana + Google Docs).
Over 100 million users and 4 million paying accounts. More than 50% of Fortune 500 companies. OpenAI, Figma, Headspace, Nvidia, Salesforce, run on Notion. For us it is the heart of the stack in SMBs and mid-market: what normally lives in 5 different tools fits here in one.
The novelty of the last 12 months is the AI layer: Custom Agents that execute tasks instead of just suggesting, unified Enterprise Search across the connected stack, AI Meeting Notes and Research Mode. It is moving the center of gravity from 'designing workspaces' towards 'designing operating systems with agents that execute work'.
02. How we apply it
The applications that come up most often in our projects.
Wikis and knowledge bases
Documented onboarding, internal manuals, single source of truth for HR, product and operations. The Figmanual style.
Custom operating systems
Lightweight CRMs, OKRs and event planning on top of relational databases that replace part of the stack.
AI and agent rollouts
Custom Agents for ticket triage, daily standups, status reports and internal Q&A with observability and human-in-the-loop.
Cross integrations
Native connectors with Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Figma or Salesforce, plus bridge automations via Make or Zapier.
Project management
Roadmaps, sprints, kanbans and timeline views with dependencies between tasks. Project documentation lives next to the backlog, not in a separate Confluence.
03. What changes for you
When we work with you, you will always have Notion behind us. That means a direct line to their technical team to escalate critical incidents, if your workspace has a problem, you do not wait in the public support queue. Early access to betas and to the roadmap months before the market: we have deployed Custom Agents, Enterprise Search and AI Meeting Notes in production before their GA.
Team certifications are individual and renew every two years, so the product knowledge we apply to your workspace remains current-year practice, not three-year-old practice. We work following Notion's official frameworks: if tomorrow you internalize maintenance or change providers, the system still follows patterns recognizable to any other certified professional, we do not leave you with an idiosyncratic architecture that only we understand.
04. Related cases
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Scalable project management and coordination system for a modular housing company
Yango
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Four workspace platforms competing for the same B2B mid-market client. The structural differences that matter when choosing a stack.
| Dimension | Notion | ClickUp | Asana | Monday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing (USD/user/month) | Free · 10 · 18 · 25-35 | Free · 7 · 12 · 19 | Free · 11 · 25 · Enterprise | Free · 9 · 12 · 19 |
| Sweet spot | 5–1,000 people | 10–500 | 50–10,000 | 10–500 |
| Best for | Docs + databases + tasks integrated | Deep, robust project tracking | Formal enterprise workflows | Visual, intuitive project management |
| Strength | Flexibility and UX, scales with governance | Feature depth and customization | Enterprise maturity, strong compliance | Visual, very low learning curve |
| Weakness | No native Gantt; entropy without governance | Complex, over-engineered for small teams | Expensive for SMBs; rigid outside its model | Limited beyond project tracking |
| API + automation | API + mature Make / n8n / Zapier connectors | API + built-in automation builder | API + Make / Zapier connectors | API + native integrations |
| Enterprise compliance | SOC2 II, GDPR (Enterprise plan) | SOC2 II, GDPR | SOC2 II, GDPR, HIPAA | SOC2 II, GDPR |
Public vendor data, May 2026. Enterprise pricing is negotiated case by case; verify before finalizing a stack decision.
Four per-user-per-month plans: Free (individual use), Plus (10 USD), Business (18 USD), Enterprise (negotiated, typically 25-35 USD). Notion AI add-on: +8 USD/user. For 50+ person companies, Business is the sweet spot: includes SAML SSO, audit logs, and advanced permissions. Enterprise only when you need contractual SOC2 Type II, EU data residency, or a dedicated customer success manager. Real cost calculation: 50 people × Business × 12 months = ~10,800 USD/year in licenses. Initial deployment (4-8 wks) usually costs 2-5× that figure in year one; recurring drops to almost nothing.
Yes, but it requires governance from the design, it's not a workspace that scales "naturally" from individual to collective use. What breaks Notion in large companies isn't the tool: it's the lack of taxonomy (where does each type of information live?), the absence of mandatory database properties (status, owner, date), and permissions too open where anyone creates loose pages. Companies like Adobe, Toyota, or Figma operate Notion across thousands of employees, because they designed the system with those three constraints from day one. If your Notion is already chaotic at 50 people, it's not Notion: it's the system.
4-12 weeks depending on volume and redesign. The slow part isn't the technical migration. Notion has importers for Confluence, Google Docs, Word, Markdown, but the decision of what to redesign. Brute migration (same tree, different wrapper): 1-2 weeks, low value. Migration with redesign (new taxonomy, databases instead of pages, mandatory properties): 6-12 weeks, real value. Companies that only "lift-and-shift" tend to end up with the same chaos in 6 months. The actual work: deciding what stays as wiki, what becomes a database, what disappears. That's 80% of the time.
Four non-negotiables. (1) Clear taxonomy: workspace > teamspace > database, with explicit rules on what lives where. (2) Templates per content type (project, reunión, tech doc, proposal) that the team uses by default. (3) Permissions governance: editor only in their own teamspace by default, read in the rest, no public links shared by default. (4) Mandatory team onboarding: without formación, each person reinvents how they use Notion and after 6 months you have 50 parallel structures. Without these four, any workspace decays into entropy quickly.
Yes, all three with different methods. HubSpot: via Make or n8n (no robust native integration), bidirectional sync of contacts/deals ↔ Notion databases. Stripe: via API + custom automation, payments create rows in a "Subscriptions" or "Invoices" database. Slack: native Notion integration + bidirectional webhooks, commenting on a page notifies a channel; a message creates a task. What's NOT trivial: maintaining data consistency when all three update in parallel. B2B buena práctica: define Notion as source of truth for X data types, HubSpot for Y, Stripe for Z, without overlap.
Three operational practices. (1) Database-first instead of page-first: new content types (clients, projects, decisions, reuniones) live in a database with properties, not as loose pages. (2) Mandatory properties: each database defines status, owner, type, date, without these fields the row can't be created. (3) Quarterly review of orphan files: one person dedicates 2 hours per quarter to archive what's no longer used and correct taxonomy drift. Without any of the three, any Notion workspace decays into entropy quickly, regardless of team size.
Notion is the all-in-one workspace platform (documentation, databases, tasks, wikis) most widely adopted by B2B companies in 2026. As Notion Solution Partners, we deploy workspaces that scale from 5 to 1000 people: with governance, taxonomy, and mandatory properties from day one so they don't decay into chaos after 6 months.