# Ambience vs Wato

> Ambience is the stronger fit for a focused governed memory plane that works across approved agents.

Wato is a broader shared AI workspace spanning tools, workflows, cloud sessions, artifacts, and traces. Ambience focuses on the memory substrate teams need: typed context, scopes, redaction, source links, conflict review, and audit.

## Choose Ambience when

- The core problem is reusable team context for agents.
- The company needs policy-enforced memory scopes and audit.
- Existing agents and MCP tools should keep working while Ambience becomes the shared context layer.

## Where Wato mainly fits

- A team wants a broad workspace orchestration environment.
- The main goal is bringing many tools and live artifacts into one AI workspace.

## Related

- [Full comparison](https://ambience.sh/vs/wato)
- [How to stop agents starting from zero](https://ambience.sh/answers/how-to-stop-agents-starting-from-zero)