In brief: HCL Domino Assistant is AI Build Group Ltd's AI assistant for organisations that run HCL Notes and Domino, the platform formerly known as Lotus Notes and IBM Notes. It brings AI agents into the Domino applications, mail, calendars and business processes your teams already use, without a migration away from Domino. See it on Stand B501 at The Business Show London 2026, ExCeL London, on 11–12 November 2026.
Why keep Domino and add AI rather than replace it?
Many organisations have years of investment in Domino databases, workflows and CRM applications that still run the business. Replacing them purely to access AI is costly, risky and disruptive. With Domino Assistant, the existing Notes applications stay the system of record and AI works with them under the access controls Domino already applies.
What are the three ways to use Domino Assistant?
- AI inside HCL Notes: an embedded assistant in the Notes sidebar answers questions and carries out business actions, with each exchange logged in the mail file.
- Your preferred assistant through DominoMCP: compatible AI applications such as ChatGPT can work with authorised Domino data and actions.
- Autonomous agents: agents respond to incoming email, SMS and WhatsApp, and larger jobs run as persistent offline workflows with scheduling, retries and saved progress.
What could AI agents do in your Notes applications?
Typical tasks include classifying and prioritising mail and drafting replies; finding meeting slots and sending invitations with Teams links; searching and updating CRM records, opportunities and tenders without exporting the database; producing Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, including through OfficeMaker; scheduled management reports; and explaining existing forms, views and agents for Notes developers. A single instruction can drive a whole process: an incoming tender email can be read, the customer researched, an opportunity created and first-draft documents prepared, with remaining tasks assigned to people.
How are permissions and governance handled?
People and agents act only with the access Domino already grants. Personal instructions, approvals, separate identities and an audit trail sit on top of that. Our Domino Assistant exhibitor news summarises the security model.
Where can I see HCL Domino Assistant at The Business Show?
Bring a list of the Notes databases and processes that take the most staff time and visit AI Build Group Ltd on Stand B501 at The Business Show London 2026, ExCeL London, on 11–12 November 2026. See our Business Show hub and AI Build Group's exhibitor profile for the full line-up.