Documentation
How SatyaBoard works — boards, cards, connections, and the AI that reads them.
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Getting started
What SatyaBoard is#
SatyaBoard is an infinite canvas where you collect sources — videos, articles, PDFs, notes — and wire the ones that matter into an AI that answers from them.
That last part is the whole idea. A general chatbot answers from the open internet and hopes it guessed your context right. Satya answers from the specific cards you drew a line to, which means you decide what it works from before you ask the question.
Everything else follows from that: cards hold your material, connections define context, and the chat card is where you ask.
Quickstart#
Five steps from empty canvas to first answer.
- Open
/boardsand create a board. - Add a source. Paste a link anywhere on the canvas with ⌘V, drop a file onto it, or pick a tool from the left toolbar.
- Add a Satya Chat card from the left toolbar.
- Drag from the dot on the edge of your source card to the dot on the chat card. That line is what puts the source in context.
- Ask your question.
What you need#
Boards
Boards and workspaces#
Every project lives on its own board. The hub at /boards lists them, in a grid or a table, and is where you create, rename, and delete them. You can also rename a board from its title in the board header.
Workspaces group boards together. They organise your own boards into separate spaces — client work apart from personal research, for example. They are not shared live editing sessions; two people cannot draw on the same board at the same time today.
Moving around the canvas#
The canvas is infinite in every direction, so nothing you add ever has to fit inside a column or a page.
- Pan
- Scroll, or hold Space and drag
- Zoom
- ⌘ or Ctrl + scroll, or pinch on a trackpad
- Fit everything on screen
- Shift + 1
- Zoom range
- 20% to 400%
Saving and sync#
Boards save themselves as you work. Where they save depends on whether you are signed in.
Cards
Adding cards#
Three ways onto the canvas, and they all end up in the same place.
.pdf or pointing at Google Drive becomes a PDF; anything else becomes a web page.Card reference#
Every card type, what it holds, and how to create one.
| Card | What it holds | How to add |
|---|---|---|
| Sources | ||
| YouTubeyoutube | A video plus its transcript, so Satya can read what was said. | Paste the link, or use YouTube in the left toolbar. |
| TikToktiktok | A TikTok post and its transcript. | Paste the link, or use TikTok in the left toolbar. |
| Instagraminstagram | An Instagram post kept as reference. | Paste the post link. |
| LinkedInlinkedin | A LinkedIn post kept as reference. | Paste the post link. |
| Xx | An X post kept as reference. | Paste the post link. |
| Facebookfacebook | A Facebook post kept as reference. | Paste the post link. |
| Loomloom | A Loom recording. | Paste the share link. |
| Web pageweb | An article or page, fetched and read as text. | Paste any URL, or use Web page in the left toolbar. |
| Pinterest pinpinterest-pin | A public pin, for mood boards and creative reference. | Paste the pin URL. |
| Files | ||
| PDFpdf | A PDF whose text Satya can read. | Use Upload in the left toolbar, or paste a link to one. |
| CSVcsv | Tabular data, parsed row by row for Satya to analyse. | Use Upload in the left toolbar. |
| Excelxlsx | A spreadsheet kept on the board. Satya sees the file, not the cells yet — save it as CSV if you need the numbers read. | Use Upload in the left toolbar. |
| Audioaudio | An audio file, transcribed for Satya to read. | Use Upload in the left toolbar. |
| Videovideo | A video file, transcribed for Satya to read. | Use Upload in the left toolbar. |
| Imageimage | An image Satya can look at. | Use Upload in the left toolbar. |
| Filefile | Any other uploaded file, kept on the board but not read. | Use Upload in the left toolbar. |
| Notes & structure | ||
| Post-itsticky-note | A short written note in your own words. | Press N, or use Post-it in the left toolbar. |
| Voice notevoice-note | A recording you make in the browser, transcribed for Satya. | Press V, or use Voice note in the left toolbar. |
| Tabletable | An editable sheet you can fill in by hand. | Use Table in the left toolbar. |
| Groupgroup | A frame that holds cards together and can carry instructions. | Press G, or use Group in the left toolbar. |
| Satya Chatchat | Where you ask questions about the cards you connect to it. | Use Satya in the left toolbar. |
| Integrations | ||
| Meta admeta-ad | An ad saved from Meta's Ads Library, with its copy and creative. | Save it with the Chrome extension, then place it from the Swipe File drawer. |
| AI output | ||
| Emailemail | A designed email Satya wrote for you. | Ask Satya for one in chat, then push it to the board. |
| Adad | An ad creative Satya generated. | Ask Satya for one in chat, then push it to the board. |
| Landing pagelanding | A landing page concept Satya generated. | Ask Satya for one in chat, then push it to the board. |
Groups#
A group is a frame that holds cards together. Drag cards into it and they snap into a tidy grid, and moving the frame moves everything inside it as one.
Connecting a group to a chat card brings every card inside it into context at once, which makes a group the tidiest way to hand Satya a whole set of research in one line.
Connections
How context works#
Connections decide which of your cards a chat can see.
This is the one rule worth internalising. A card sitting right next to your chat card, touching it, perfectly relevant, is invisible to Satya until you draw a line between them. Proximity means nothing; the wire means everything.
The upside is control. A board can hold fifty sources while a question only sees the four that matter, which keeps answers sharp and stops unrelated material from bleeding into them.
Working with connections#
- Connect two cards
- Hover a card to reveal the dots on its edges, then drag from one to a dot on the chat card
- Select a connection
- Click the line
- Delete the selected connection
- Delete or Backspace
- Cancel a drag, or deselect
- Esc
Satya Chat
Asking questions#
A chat card holds as many separate conversations as you want, so you can keep a script draft and a research thread apart without building a second board. New chat starts a thread, and Recents moves between the ones you already have.
If a reply is wrong, the thumbs down on the message opens a report that goes off with a reference to that conversation attached, so it can be traced without you having to reconstruct what happened.
What Satya is allowed to use
Two switches under Settings in the chat composer decide where an answer may come from.
Model reference#
Every chat picks its own model, so you can run a cheap model for summaries and a frontier one for the hard question without changing any settings.
| Model | Provider | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Satya | Built in | Auto — best model for the task |
| GPT-5 | ChatGPT | OpenAI's latest flagship |
| GPT-5 mini | ChatGPT | Faster, cheaper GPT-5 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude | Latest Opus for long agent workflows |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Claude | Most capable Sonnet model |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude | Fast and efficient with near-frontier quality |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | Gemini | Advanced Pro model for complex tasks |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini | Latest fast model with multimodal support |
| Grok 4.3 | Grok | Strong Grok with 1M context and image support |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Llama | Latest Llama 4 with strong multimodal performance |
| Kimi K3 | Kimi | Moonshot's flagship with 1M context |
| Kimi K2.5 | Kimi | Fast, cost-efficient agentic model |
Artifacts#
Some answers come back as something you can use rather than something you read. Satya can produce images, tables, emails, ads, landing pages, and PDF documents.
Add to canvas turns any of them into a real card, already connected to the chat that made it — so the output keeps a visible link back to its reasoning, and you can feed it into the next question.
Exporting
Export formats#
What comes off a card, and in what shape. The full set of options lives on the artifact in chat; a card on the board carries a shorter version of the same menu.
- PNG, JPEG, or HTML with inline styles for pasting into an email platform
- Ad
- PNG, JPEG, or HTML — PNG from the board card
- Landing page
- PNG, JPEG, or its code as
.htmlor.jsx - Table
- Excel workbook, or copied for pasting into a new Google Sheet
- PDF document
- PDF download
- Generated image
- PNG download, or the image URL
Chrome extension
What the extension is for#
The extension does two jobs that a web app cannot do on its own: capture ads from Meta’s Ads Library, and reach pages that block automated fetching.
Once it is in Chrome, open the popup and choose Connect Satya account.
Saving ads
On a Meta Ads Library page each ad gets a Save to Satya button, or use Save all visible to capture everything currently on screen. Saved ads collect in the Swipe File drawer on your boards, ready to place.
Pages Satya cannot fetch
Some sites sit behind a CAPTCHA or a bot check, and a web card for them will come back empty. The extension solves this by using the browser you already passed the check in.
- Open the page in a normal Chrome tab and clear the CAPTCHA yourself.
- Click Sync this tab to Satya in the extension popup.
- Go back to your board and reload it — the web card picks up the page you synced.
Credits and billing
How credits work#
Asking Satya something costs credits, and a long answer over a lot of connected material costs more than a short one over a little. The meter in the corner of your board shows what is left. Everything else — adding cards, moving them, connecting them, importing and transcribing your sources — does not draw on the pool.
Pro tiers
- $49 / month
- 5,000 credits
- $99 / month
- 10,000 credits
- $199 / month
- 20,000 credits
Plans#
- Free
- $0/mo — 1 board · Link & note cards · 500 credits included · Basic canvas tools
- Pro
- $49/mo — Unlimited boards · Shared team workspace · YouTube & media RAG · Priority processing
- Enterprise
- Custom pricing — Unlimited collaborators · Custom credit volume · Dedicated onboarding & SSO
Plans & Billing in your account menu shows where you stand, and Manage subscription there opens the billing portal to change or cancel. Cancelling leaves your boards intact and your plan active until the period you already paid for ends.
Account
Signing in#
There is no password. Either continue with Google, or enter your email and we send a six-digit code for you to type in. First time through, you also give your name, your company, and how big your team is.
Your name, avatar, and details live under Profile in the account menu.
Affiliate program
Referrals and payouts#
Share your referral link and you earn 50% of what the people you refer pay, for their first 3 months.
Your link, clicks, and balance are on the Affiliate page in your account.
Templates
Using a template#
Templates are pre-built boards for a specific job, already wired up with the cards and connections that job needs. Opening one and choosing Use this template creates a real board of your own from it, which you can then change however you like.
Troubleshooting
Common problems#
Keyboard shortcuts
Shortcut reference#
Shortcuts work on the board whenever you are not typing into a card.
- N
- Add a post-it
- V
- Add a voice note
- G
- Add a group
- Shift + 1
- Fit everything on screen
- ⌘V
- Paste a link as a new card
- ⌘ + scroll
- Zoom in and out
- Hold Space
- Grab and drag the canvas
- Esc
- Cancel a connection drag, or deselect
- Delete / Backspace
- Delete the selected connection