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Mesa is built around a central home page with a sidebar for everything you’ve created and saved. Once you know the layout, you can move between research, conversations, files, and customization without losing your place.
New to Mesa? Read this page before moving on to chat features; knowing the layout makes every other page in this guide easier to follow.

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Top bar

Click your organization name in the top-left to open a dropdown with links to other pages, including your settings. If you hold the Owner role, you’ll also see the Organization page here.
Learn what Owners can manage in Organization admin.

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Search and Ask AI

The toggle in the center of the home page switches between two modes:
  • Search looks through a curated legal corpus.
  • Ask AI sends your request to Mesa’s agents for research, drafting, and analysis.
For everything you can do in Ask AI, see Models, Text editor, Attachments, Tagging files, and Exhaustive search.

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Notifications and side panel

The bell icon in the top-right opens your notifications, where Mesa alerts you when long-running requests finish.
Learn how to request alerts for long-running tasks in Notifications.
Next to it, you can open the side panel to multitask, for example by keeping a document in view while you chat.
The left sidebar holds everything you’ve created and saved in Mesa.

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Conversations

Click Conversations to see a list of all your prior conversations and pick up where you left off.

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Library

The Library tab shows jurisdictions and collections pinned by you or your organization. Click Browse the full library to find specific jurisdictions to read, or My annotations in the top-right to review the highlights and notes you’ve made.
Learn how to read, annotate, and pin content in Library.

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My Files

The My Files tab shows all of your uploads, organized by category.
Learn how to organize, share, and archive documents in Files.

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Customization

The Customization tab is where you set up personal and organization-wide features, including skills and preferences.
Learn about personal customization in Skills and Preferences, and workspace-wide defaults in Organization customization.

Getting started with Mesa

Walk through your first conversation from login to finished request.

Settings

Configure your theme, sidebar behavior, and message controls.

Models

Pick the right model and effort level before starting chat work.
Last modified on July 6, 2026