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A workplace AI assistant that helps staff write, research, and analyze data, kept private and never used to train the model.
An AI add-on for a project management platform that answers questions about your work and runs multi-step automations, sold as a separate tier.
ClickUp Brain is the AI layer inside ClickUp, an all-in-one work management platform for tasks, docs, chat, and time tracking. Staff use Brain to ask questions about their workspace and to generate written content. It runs 'Super Agents' that carry out multi-step automations using more than 500 connected actions across tools like Google Drive, GitHub, and Salesforce, and it can route requests across several underlying models, including GPT, Claude, and Gemini. Brain is not included in ClickUp's base plans; it is a separate add-on split into a 'Brain' tier and a higher 'Everything AI' tier that adds automations and an AI notetaker. The base platform carries SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA-related compliance claims and supports single sign-on.
This fits a team that already runs its projects and tasks in ClickUp and wants AI layered directly onto that work, more than a company evaluating an AI assistant as a standalone purchase. A sensible starting point is turning on the base 'Brain' add-on for one team already active in ClickUp and comparing it against how staff use outside chatbots for the same tasks. As a planning figure, budget about $9 per user per month for the Brain tier and about $28 for Everything AI, both on top of the base ClickUp plan. Heavier automation and agent use also draws down a separate pool of AI credits. Brain was rebuilt as Brain 2 in mid-2026, so confirm current feature names and credit limits with ClickUp rather than relying on older reviews.
These estimates cover licensing, setup, integrations, staff time, security, administration, and support.
| Cost measure | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-year total | $14.2K | $22.9K | $37.5K |
| Three-year total | $27.3K | $42.2K | $67.2K |
| First-year cost per unit | $712 | $1.1K | $1.9K |
| Average annual cost per unit (over three years) | $454 | $704 | $1.1K |
| Component | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensing and usage | $825 | $1.1K | $1.5K |
| Implementation | $3.3K | $5.5K | $9.4K |
| Integration | $2.5K | $4.5K | $8.1K |
| Staff time and change management | $2.5K | $3.5K | $4.9K |
| Security | $2K | $2.8K | $4.2K |
| Administration | $1.7K | $2.2K | $3K |
| Support | $900 | $1.2K | $1.6K |
Estimate assumptions: Based on 20 enabled users. This is a planning allowance, not verified product pricing. Confirm the vendor’s billing unit and current price or quote before budgeting.
Benefits have not been estimated: The current research does not estimate potential savings, return on investment, or how long it would take to recover the cost. Earlier benefit estimates are excluded.
Confirm current product identity, commercial packaging, data processing terms, sign-in and access rules, retention, integrations, support model, implementation effort, and rollback conditions.
Verify identity, package, availability, ownership, pricing, and security evidence before approving a pilot
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
Define what success looks like for a test of ClickUp Brain and assign someone to lead it.
Once the requirements above are met, compare a small trial with how your team works today.
Track adoption, output quality, business results, and actual costs against the estimate.
Use the results to decide whether to stop, adjust, or expand the pilot.
Confirm encryption, how the vendor uses your data, customer data separation, how long data stays and how to delete it, activity records, sign-in and user setup, where data is handled, other companies that process data, past incidents, and what your team must manage.
Review before rollout: confirm how to export your data, revoke access, and return to your existing workflow. Assign an owner and test the rollback plan before expanding use.
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
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