Capability guide · Plain language first
Work with files and data
Pull information out of documents, tables and spreadsheets, then work out what is actually going on inside them.
The pattern
See what changes, and where you return.
Files or a table go through analysis, then a person verifies the finding against the original.
Recognisable examples
Begin with work you already understand.
A capability is a broad kind of help. The linked task guides explain how to complete a specific piece of work.
Make sense of a spreadsheet someone handed you
Find the recurring themes in a pile of customer feedback
Compare two contracts for what genuinely differs
Draft a chart from figures you provide
AI can contribute
Repeatable effort and a first pass
- Reads files you upload and describes how they are put together
- Runs the analysis in a sandbox and can show its working
- Finds patterns, outliers and likely data-quality problems
- Can read a chart or photo you attach and pull the figures out
The person contributes
Meaning, checking and responsibility
- Explains what the columns and documents actually mean
- Checks the numbers back against the original source
- Decides whether a finding is real or just a coincidence
Featured Human Partnership
Research a topic with reliable sources
Research becomes useful when it changes the quality of a decision. A long report is not evidence of good research unless the scope, sources, disagreements and remaining uncertainty are visible.
- AI capability
- Editable research planning. Deep research features can turn a broad question into a proposed plan, source strategy and sequence of subquestions that the person can review before a long search begins.
- Human expertise
- Decision framing. You know what action the research must support, which uncertainty is blocking progress, and what level of confidence is sufficient for the consequence involved.
- Decision
- The person decides whether the evidence is credible, relevant and sufficient for the real decision. AI can assemble and challenge a case, but it cannot set the organisation's evidence threshold or accept the consequence of being wrong.
- Skill built
- Evidence judgement. Used well, the workflow strengthens question framing, source evaluation, uncertainty handling and the discipline of matching the strength of a conclusion to the strength of its evidence.
- Finished result
- A focused briefing that keeps its links, its disagreements, its gaps and your next questions all in view.
- 01Turn the topic into a decision
State what must be decided, what is already known, the time and geographic boundaries, and which source types should carry the most weight.
- 02Propose the research route
Generate a research plan, candidate questions and source strategy for review before using deep research, web search, uploaded files or connected sources.
- 03Interrogate the emerging evidence
Refine the search when terms are ambiguous, important viewpoints are absent, or early evidence suggests the original framing was too narrow.
- 04Decide what the evidence earns
The person decides which conclusions are supported, which remain provisional, and whether more evidence, a subject matter expert or a real world test is required.
- 05Open the claims that carry the decision
Read the most important sources directly, check publication dates and jurisdiction, trace quotations and numbers, and record what the search could not find.
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