Browsing the web
The browser is the workhorse. Your assistant can open sites, sign in, navigate, fill forms, read pages, and download files — everything a person does in a browser tab:- “Book the usual meeting room on the facilities portal for Thursday.”
- “Download last month’s statement from the supplier site.”
- “Check what our product page looks like and tell me if the pricing table is out of date.”
Using applications
Beyond the browser, the desktop itself is fair game: native applications, the file manager, the terminal. If a job needs software, your assistant can download, install, and use it — spreadsheet tools, document editors, whatever the task calls for. You don’t need to provision anything.Working with files
The assistant’s machine has a persistent working folder that ties the whole platform together:- Attachments arrive there. Any file you send — in
Console chat, by email, over WhatsApp —
lands in its
Attachmentsfolder, ready to be opened and worked on. - Downloads and outputs live there. Files it pulls from the web, documents it produces, intermediate work — all on its machine, and it can send you any of them back over any channel.
- Nothing evaporates. The workspace persists across sessions — the spreadsheet it built for you last week is still there when you ask for an update. More on this in The machine.
When does it use the computer vs. everything else?
You don’t have to think about it — your assistant routes work sensibly. As a rule of thumb:- Connected integrations and the workspace come first when they cover the job — they’re faster and more reliable than clicking through screens.
- The computer takes over when there’s no integration for the tool, the work is inherently visual, or files and software are involved.
- The two combine freely: pull data from the CRM, work it over in a spreadsheet on the desktop, email you the result.