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cristina vs Slite
knowledge base for the team. not for the team's agents.
Slite does one thing well: store what your team knows, in text. The editor is clean, the organization is sensible, the AI-over-docs search is genuinely useful. The gap is structural. "What your team knows" increasingly includes things agents built — HTML prototypes, generated analyses, weekly dashboards. Those outputs have nowhere to land in Slite. They stay in a chat window or get lost in a shared folder until someone pastes them somewhere, which nobody does.
feature by feature
feature
Slite
cristina
POST endpoint for agents
no
yes — /api/artifacts
raw HTML rendering (sandboxed)
no
yes — iframe, allow-scripts
permanent URL per artifact
yes (text docs)
yes (HTML artifacts)
API key auth for agents
no write API
one API key
AI search over docs
yes — Ask feature
no
folder organization
yes — channels
yes — color-coded folders
inline comments / annotations
yes
yes — pinned markers
where slite wins
- +Clean, focused editor with good AI-assisted writing tools built in
- +Ask-your-docs AI that summarizes and answers questions across the whole knowledge base
- +Quick onboarding — a new teammate can find what they need within hours
- +Well-designed for async teams that document decisions and processes in text
- +Channel-based organization that maps naturally to how teams think
where slite falls short
- −No POST endpoint for agents — content is human-written only
- −Raw HTML rendering: not the model; Slite is a text/markdown product
- −Permanent URLs for generated artifacts: no concept of an agent-produced artifact
- −Structured data alongside prose — embedded tables and charts from code outputs
- −API for writing content programmatically: very limited
where we're honestly worse
we'd rather say it than have you find out later
- ·AI-over-docs search — Slite's Ask feature that answers questions from your knowledge base is genuinely good; we don't have it
- ·Writing experience — the editor is clean and fast for longform human prose; we're not a text editor
- ·Process documentation — SOPs, runbooks, onboarding guides belong in Slite, not cristina
- ·Channel organization for teams — Slite's structure maps to how ops teams think
- ·Pricing for small teams — Slite's free tier is more generous for text-heavy teams
why cristina anyway
- →Agent outputs land automatically — no paste, no human step, no context switching
- →HTML renders as built — a generated dashboard looks like a dashboard, not a code block
- →Every output gets a URL — link it from Slite, Slack, or wherever the team already works
- →PATCH to update a living artifact — the same URL stays current as the agent re-runs
- →The two products are complementary — use Slite for what humans write, cristina for what agents build
bottom line
Use Slite for what your team writes. Use cristina for what your agents build. They're not competing — they're complementary.