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The Limit Is Your Imagination

What this covers

Every list of examples is a list of things somebody already thought of. The useful question is the one nobody has answered yet: what would you ask for, if asking were free?

This is the last page in the section on purpose. Once you know what AI Assist is and how to talk to it, the limit stops being the software and starts being what occurs to you.

The shift worth making

Most software teaches you to think in screens. You want to invoice someone, so you think: Invoices menu, new, pick the Client, add a line, choose the tax, save.

AI Assist asks you to think in outcomes instead. You want Sarah invoiced for six hours, so you say that. The screens are still there, and you can still use them, but you no longer have to plan the route.

That sounds like a small change. In practice it is the difference between doing the admin you scheduled and doing the admin as it occurs to you — which is the only version that keeps up with an actual week.

How to find your own uses

Notice what you put off

Whatever is still on your list on Friday is the thing to try first. Not because it is important, but because avoidance is a reliable signal that the current route is too much friction.

Notice what you do more than once a day

Anything repeated is worth one experiment. If it works, you have bought back that time every day from now on.

Notice where your hands are full

Driving, on site, carrying something, between appointments. These are the moments that used to be dead time and are now the moments the notes get written.

Just ask for the odd thing

The worst outcome is that it says it cannot. That costs you five seconds and tells you something. People consistently underestimate what can be phrased as a single sentence.

Tips and best practices

Ask for the whole outcome, not the first step. “New Client, with a note about what she wants and a Follow-Up for Tuesday” is one request, not three.

Try the request you assume is too complicated. The assumption is usually wrong, and it is a cheap thing to test.

Keep a note of what did not work. Send it through Submit Request. A fair amount of what exists today came in exactly that way.

Do not wait until you trust it completely. Nothing saves without you, so the cost of an experiment is reading a form and closing it.

Show one person one thing. The fastest way to get a team using this is not a demonstration of the feature — it is solving the one job they complain about.

Where the ceiling actually is

Being straight about this matters more than being enthusiastic.

It works inside your own data, so it cannot tell you things your data does not contain. It drafts, so it will not act on your behalf while you are asleep. It does not give you tax advice, and it is not a substitute for knowing whether an entry is right — it is a faster way to make an entry you already understand.

Within those lines there is a great deal of room, and most people are nowhere near it.

What this connects to

The reason imagination is the limit here and not elsewhere is that everything underneath is one system. A request can cross what would normally be three products — create the person, bill them, post it to the books — because there is one database, not three with exports between them.

An assistant on top of disconnected tools can only ever draft text for you to re-enter somewhere. This one can draft the work itself.

Troubleshooting

It could not do what I asked. Try phrasing it as an outcome. If it still cannot, tell us — that is genuinely how the list of what it can do grows.

I cannot think of anything to use it for. Start with the last thing you did not get round to this week.

I am worried about getting it wrong. You cannot save anything by accident. Every route ends at a form you approve.

My team will not adopt it. Pick one job each of them dislikes and show them that one. Feature tours do not work.

Common questions

What is it actually not able to do?

It will not act without you, will not send anything on your behalf, and cannot tell you things your data does not contain. Everything else is worth trying.

Will it get better?

Yes, and what it gets better at is shaped by what people ask for and cannot get. Which is why telling us matters.

Is there a list of every command?

No, deliberately — it takes plain language rather than a fixed vocabulary. What People Use It For is a starting point, not a menu.

Can I suggest something?

Please do. Submit Request is read by real people, and a fair amount of the product started there.

Is it safe to experiment?

Yes. Nothing is saved, sent or posted without you pressing the button.

Where should I start?

Open it and try one command. Ten seconds tells you more than this page can.

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