Here's the bit that made me go "oh — OH" when it first clicked. You are not limited to typing questions into a box. You can hand it your actual stuff — documents, spreadsheets, photos — and it'll read them and work with them.
This is where the real time goes back into your pocket.
📎 What you can give it
Drag a file straight in, or hit the little attach button. It'll happily take:
PDFs
Reports, contracts, invoices — that 40-page document you've been avoiding all week.
Spreadsheets & CSVs
Sales data, lists, exports straight out of your accounting software.
Word docs & text
Drafts, notes, policies, anything you've already written.
Images & photos
Screenshots, a snap of a receipt, a whiteboard, a handwritten list.
👁️ Yes — it can actually "see" pictures
This still feels a bit like magic. Take a photo of a messy whiteboard after a meeting and ask it to type up the notes. Snap a receipt and ask it to pull out the total and the date. Photograph a page of a contract and ask what a clause means. It reads images, not just typed text.
🏪 What this looks like for a small business
A few that I (or people I've shown) actually use:
"Summarise this 30-page report in five bullet points." Paste the PDF, done before you've made the tea.
"Pull every line item and price out of these invoices into a table."
"Here's my sales spreadsheet — what were my three best months, and what stands out?"
"Read this contract and flag anything unusual before I sign." (Then check the important bits with a human.)
"Turn this photo of my handwritten stocktake into a clean list."
⚠️ Two things to keep in mind
It reads what's actually there
Summarising your own document is one of the safest things it does — no making things up needed. But the moment you ask it to add outside facts, the usual verify-it rule applies.
Mind what's in the file
A document full of customer details is still customer details — same care as the privacy post. Check your settings; don't upload what you wouldn't want used.
🧭 The one habit to steal
If you take a single new habit from this whole site, make it this one: stop retyping and re-summarising things by hand. Give it the file. It's the biggest "where did my afternoon go" fix I've found — and most people don't realise it's sitting right there behind the paperclip.