When you search on Findborg, you get tabs.
Web. Image. Video. News. Breakdown. Workspace.
Most searches end somewhere in the first four. You found what you were looking for, you moved on. But there is a category of search — the kind where you are not just looking something up but actually working on something — where none of the first four tabs are the right place to land.
That is what Workspace is for.
What Workspace Actually Is
Workspace is a deep-research environment built on top of Findborg’s Find Engine.
It is not a formatted results page. It is not an AI summary of your query. It is a persistent, interactive layer where you can:
- Work through a research question over time, not in a single session
- Collect, organize, and annotate what you find
- Pull in results from web search, Borg’s synthesis, and The Hive — in one place
- Build toward something: a decision, a document, a clear picture of a complicated topic
The difference between a results page and a workspace is the difference between a library card catalog and a reading room. One helps you find something. The other is where you go to actually understand it.
When You Need Workspace Instead of Web
Here is how to know which mode you are in.
You need Web results when: you have a specific question with a specific answer and you just need to locate it. “What time does the Hernando County DMV open?” That is a Web tab question.
You need Workspace when: you are building understanding over multiple searches, synthesizing from several sources, or making a decision that requires actually thinking through what you found. “Should I switch from Shopify to WooCommerce for my small business?” That is a Workspace question.
Any topic that would benefit from organized notes is a Workspace topic. Any search where “I found a page” is not the same as “I found what I needed” is a Workspace search.
How Workspace and Borg Work Together
Workspace and Borg are built to operate as a pair.
When you are in Workspace, Borg is accessible inside it — not as a separate tab to navigate away to, but as the research engine running underneath the environment you are working in. Ask Borg a question inside your Workspace and the answer lives there, alongside the web results and Hive knowledge you have already collected.
This is the Find Engine architecture at its clearest: community knowledge, AI synthesis, and the open web not as three separate products but as three layers of a single environment where you can actually work.
If your use case is “I need to understand this deeply enough to do something with it” — Workspace plus Borg is how Findborg is designed to serve that.
Getting There
From any search, click the Workspace tab.
Or use the !workspace Beam from the search bar if you already know the topic you want to build into. Drop the term after the Beam and you go straight into a Workspace session scoped to that topic.
The Short Version
Most searches are lookups. Workspace is for everything that is not a lookup.
If you have ever opened twelve browser tabs because you were trying to understand something and could not hold it all in your head at once — Workspace is what was missing.
Findborg is in Public Beta. The Workspace tab is live. Start finding.
