Cove

Cove is an aesthetic notes tool. Cove was a visual workspace for thinking with AI. The product has been sunset after its entire team joined Microsoft AI, so it can no longer be used and is listed here as a reference record.

Cove was a visual workspace for thinking with AI, built around the idea that working with a model should feel like collaboration rather than a stream of chat replies. The team described its mission as reimagining how people collaborate with AI, and directories file it among AI research assistants. The current homepage no longer describes the interface in detail, so this listing sticks to what the company itself states publicly. The most important fact for any reader is that Cove is no longer available. The company announced that its entire team accepted offers to join Microsoft AI and that the Cove product has been sunset. The homepage now carries only that notice, with links to an About page, a Blog and a post titled "An exciting next chapter" that explains the transition. There is no sign-up flow, pricing page, documentation or support channel to point to, and nothing on the site suggests a path to export or reopen old workspaces. That makes this entry a reference record rather than a recommendation. It is most useful to former users who want to confirm what happened to the tool, and to people researching canvas-style or visual approaches to AI work who keep running into the name. The team's move to Microsoft AI suggests the ideas behind the product may resurface inside a larger company's offerings, but the source does not say so, and no successor product is named. Among alternatives, Cove belongs to the group of tools that tried to replace the linear chat window with a spatial, visual way of organizing questions, sources and AI output. Anyone who needs that kind of workflow today should evaluate actively maintained research assistants and AI canvas tools instead, and should treat Cove only as a historical example of the category.