Topics
Topics are the entities Alma extracts from your communications — people, companies, deals, projects, and more. Together, they form your organizational knowledge graph.
Types of topics
- People — Individuals you interact with, including their names, email addresses, roles, and company associations.
- Companies — Organizations mentioned in your communications.
- Deals — Business opportunities, investments, or partnerships.
- Projects — Ongoing work efforts discussed across your channels.
Browsing topics
Navigate to Memory → Topics to see all extracted entities. The center column shows the full entry list with a search bar and controls at the top:
- Search — Find specific entries by name or keyword.
- Filter — Narrow by topic type, entry type, or verification status. Active filters appear as chips you can remove individually.
- Sort — Arrange by most recently updated, alphabetically, or by creation date.
Entries are grouped by date. Select any entry to see its full detail in the right column.
Topic details
Click on any topic to see its full profile:
- Summary — An AI-generated overview of what Alma knows, updated as new information arrives.
- Aliases — Alternative names or mentions Alma has linked to this entity.
- Properties — Structured data like email addresses, roles, or deal values.
- Relationships — How this topic connects to other entities (e.g., a person “works at” a company).
- Episodes — Specific events where this topic was mentioned, with the insights Alma extracted.
- Verification status — Whether the extraction has been verified, is unverified, or has conflicts.
How topics evolve
Topics are living entities. When Alma encounters new information — a role change, a new email address, a deal update — it updates the topic automatically.
Alma also tracks temporal changes. If someone changes companies, Alma records both the old and new relationships with timestamps, so you can see the full history.
Merging topics
Sometimes Alma creates separate entries for the same entity (e.g., “Jane Smith” and “J. Smith”). You can merge them from the topic detail page to combine them into a single entry.