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  • Brief me on an unfamiliar topic

    Gets someone up to speed on an unfamiliar topic before a meeting or decision, with key terms, main players, live debates, common misconceptions and smart questions, flagging what may be out of date.

  • Build a news digest

    Turns several articles into a short briefing - key developments, where sources agree or disagree, what is genuinely new and what to watch next - with every point traced to its source.

  • Build a timeline from documents

    Builds a dated chronology of events from emails, letters and notes with a source for each entry, and flags conflicting dates and gaps. For disputes, claims, complaints and investigations.

  • Catch up after time away

    Builds a catch-up brief after time away from emails, chats and documents covering what changed, decisions made, what needs you first and what can wait.

  • Compare two documents

    Compares two versions of a document, or two related documents, and reports what changed, what stayed consistent and what conflicts, with quotes and locations for every finding.

  • Debate the author of a text

    Defends an article's or essay's thesis using only its own text while the user challenges it, then summarises which objections landed and what the author would need to answer.

  • Extract deadlines and dates

    Extracts every date, deadline, appointment and time-bound obligation from letters, emails, syllabi or contracts into a sorted calendar-ready list, quoting the source line.

  • Extract the key numbers from a report

    Pulls every statistic from a report or article into a table with value, unit, date, population and cited source, noting where context changes what a number means.

  • Extract the open questions in a document

    Lists the open questions, unknowns and unresolved disagreements a document raises, ranked by how much answering each would matter for what the reader does next.

  • Extract the predictions from a text

    Lists every prediction in a text with who made it, the timeframe, how checkable it is and what would count as right or wrong, ready to score later.

  • Extract every reference mentioned

    Lists every book, paper, tool, person, organisation and link mentioned in a transcript or text, with what was said about each and where, marking unclear names instead of guessing.

  • Extract the reusable ideas from content

    Extracts what is worth keeping from a talk, interview, article or chapter into core ideas, surprising insights, exact quotes, practices, figures and references, inventing nothing.

  • Ask questions of a document

    Answers the user's questions about a supplied document using only its contents, quoting the passage behind each answer and saying plainly when the document does not cover something.

  • Quiz me on what I just read

    Quizzes the reader on an article, chapter or report they just read, one question at a time, mixing recall and application, and explains each miss with the passage that answers it.

  • Rate whether content is worth my time

    Rates a long article, video or podcast transcript against the reader's interests for relevance, novelty, density and evidence, then says read it, skim named parts, or skip.

  • Summarise a book

    Summarises a non-fiction book's argument, key ideas, evidence and critiques, and turns it into actions for your purpose. Says when it does not know the book instead of inventing content.

  • Summarise the positions in a discussion

    Summarises a long discussion (forum thread, comments, RFC or email debate) into the positions held, the arguments for each, points of agreement and the open questions.

  • Summarise an email thread

    Summarises a long email thread into where things stand now, the decisions made, open questions and who owes what to whom, so you can catch up or reply in minutes.

  • Summarise a group chat

    Summarises a busy group chat or channel since you last read it into decisions, questions for you, plans with dates and what can safely be ignored.

  • Summarise a long document

    Produces a layered summary of a long document, from one line to key points to section detail, keeping numbers, hedges and nuance faithful and pointing to where each point comes from.

  • Summarise reviews before buying

    Summarises many product, place or service reviews into consistent praise, complaints, deal-breakers and who it suits, and notes how representative the reviews seem.

  • Summarise a video or podcast transcript

    Summarises a video or podcast transcript into key points with timestamps, exact quotes and a verdict on which parts are worth watching in full, without inventing times or claims.

  • Synthesise several sources into one brief

    Synthesises several supplied documents into one brief answering a question, with where they agree and disagree, what each adds and what none covers, citing which source says what.

  • Turn content into personal actions

    Turns an article, podcast or course lesson the person consumed into a short action plan for their situation, with what to try this week, what to discard and how to tell if it worked.

  • Turn a voice note into a clear message

    Turns a rambling voice-note transcript into a clear written message or email, with the main point first, every ask, date and number kept, and the rest trimmed.

  • Write a book club guide

    Builds a book club guide with a spoiler-safe summary up to the agreed chapter, themes, discussion questions and an activity. For book club hosts.

Domain-specific summaries go to their domain (a paper goes to literature-review).