# Ascend

> The AI logbook that means you never repeat yourself again. Ascend captures your work and turns it into playbooks the whole team can build on.

Ascend is a browser extension and web platform that captures AI work across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Midjourney, NotebookLM, and DeepSeek, then turns what works into reusable playbooks a team can share. It is made by Ascend Platform Ltd, based in London, United Kingdom.

## The problem Ascend solves

People use multiple AI tools every day but have no record of what they tried, no way to compare approaches across providers, no way to reuse what worked, and no way to share a proven method with colleagues. Everyone figures it out alone. Ascend fixes this with proof, not opinion.

## How it works

1. **Explore** -- Browse proven playbooks from your team and the wider community before starting from scratch.
2. **Capture** -- Install the browser extension and carry on working. Ascend silently captures prompts, responses, and outputs across every AI tool you use. Nothing changes about how you work.
3. **Share** -- When something works, turn it into a playbook with one click. Every playbook preserves the exact prompts, context, and steps so anyone can follow along.
4. **Optimise** -- Playbooks are living. Ascend tracks whether they still deliver results and tells you when something stops working.

## What Ascend is not

- Not a prompt library or prompt management tool. Ascend captures full sessions (prompts, responses, outputs, context), not isolated prompts.
- Not a workflow automation builder like n8n, Make, or Zapier. Ascend learns from how you actually work, not from manually constructed workflows.
- Not a process documentation tool like Scribe. Ascend captures AI-specific work (prompts, model outputs, iterations) with cross-provider replay, not generic screenshots of business processes.
- Not an MLOps or model training tool like Weights & Biases or MLflow. Ascend tracks how people use AI tools, not how models are trained.
- Not an AI memory product or second brain. Ascend produces reusable, shareable playbooks with evidence, not personal notes.

## Key concepts

- **AI workflow capture**: Recording prompts, context, outputs, edits, and outcomes across AI providers so work can be repeated, compared, and improved.
- **Logbook**: A searchable record of everything worth remembering -- prompts, notes, inspirations, problems, and todos. The logbook organises itself.
- **Playbook**: The current best-known way to get a specific result with AI. Includes the exact steps, prompts, context, and checks so anyone can follow along. Playbooks are living -- Ascend tracks their health and tells you when they degrade.
- **Space**: A workspace that organises work by project, team, or topic. Shared Spaces let teams build collective knowledge that compounds over time.
- **Cross-provider capture**: One browser extension captures across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Midjourney, NotebookLM, and DeepSeek. Work is not locked to one provider.

## Who it is for

- Teams using multiple AI tools who want reusable, proven ways of working instead of everyone starting from scratch.
- Individuals who want to stop losing useful prompts, workflows, and approaches across different AI tools.
- Managers and team leads who need visibility into how AI-assisted work is actually done, with evidence rather than anecdotes.
- Anyone comparing AI tools and wanting methods backed by outcomes, not just opinions.

## Use cases

- **Research and analysis**: Capture research workflows across Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Share the method that produced the best results so the whole team can use it.
- **Content creation**: Record the prompting sequences that produce high-quality output. Turn the best approach into a playbook others can follow exactly.
- **Financial modelling**: Capture iterative prompting sessions with ChatGPT or Claude for financial analysis. Preserve the exact sequence that produced accurate models.
- **Sales enablement**: Build playbooks for competitive analysis, prospect research, and proposal drafting. New team members follow the proven method from day one.
- **Engineering**: Capture debugging sessions, code review workflows, and architectural explorations across Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT.

## Differentiators

- **Proof, not promises**: Playbooks include the actual evidence -- captured sessions, verdicts, outcomes. Not just instructions someone wrote from memory.
- **Cross-provider neutrality**: Works across every major AI tool. Compare the same workflow run on ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini.
- **Ambient capture**: No manual logging. The extension captures silently while you work as you normally do.
- **Living playbooks**: Ascend tracks whether playbooks still deliver results. Stale methods get flagged automatically.
- **Team knowledge that compounds**: What one person figures out becomes something the whole team can use. Shared Spaces aggregate proven methods across contributors.

## Product details

- Type: Chrome browser extension + web platform
- Category: SoftwareApplication / BrowserExtension
- Stage: Early access (pre-launch, free to use)
- Company: Ascend Platform Ltd, United Kingdom (company number 16442743)
- Founded: 2025
- Founders: James Kerr, Thomas Beckley
- Supported AI providers: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Midjourney, NotebookLM, DeepSeek

## Links

- Website: https://www.curn.io
- How it works: https://www.curn.io/how-it-works
- Compare AI models: https://www.curn.io/compare/chatgpt-vs-claude-vs-gemini
- About: https://www.curn.io/about
- Privacy: https://www.curn.io/privacy
- Terms: https://www.curn.io/terms
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ascendplatform/
- X: https://x.com/ascend_platform

## Contact

- Email: info@curn.io
- Location: London, United Kingdom