Brief This Doc assistant Long document in. Clear brief out.
Too many pages, not enough time? Give the assistant a report, a study, a contract or a long press release. It reads it for you and tells you what it's about, what matters and what not to miss.
Every important point is linked to its place in the original – a section, a paragraph, a table or a page – so you know exactly where to look closer.
It works with pasted text, PDFs, Word files, presentations, scans and images – as far as it can actually read them, and it tells you when it can't.
The assistant runs in ChatGPT, so you need a ChatGPT account. As ChatGPT changes how custom assistants work, it will move to a new format – this page will always point to the current version.
What does it do?
Brief This Doc is a guide through long, dense or technical material. It doesn't rewrite the document into an article or a study sheet – it helps you find your way through it.
Tell it what you need to find out, or just send the document. Without instructions it prepares a general overview you can read in a few minutes. Then you can ask follow-up questions about any part.
It sticks to what the document actually says. It separates facts from claims and its own conclusions, keeps figures with their units and periods, and quotes people only word for word.
Who is it for?
- journalists and researchers working with reports and press releases,
- people who need to understand a contract, terms or an official letter,
- managers and teams getting through studies, strategies and minutes,
- students looking for the main line of a long text,
- anyone who has to read more than they have time for.
What do you get?
In a minute
What the document is, what it deals with and its main message.
Map of the material
The logical parts of the document and what each one covers.
What matters
The key findings – each with its place in the original.
Don't miss
Conditions, exceptions, deadlines, contradictions and claims worth checking.
Read in the original
Two or three passages worth reading in full – and why.
Why you can trust the brief
Traceable
Every finding points to a section, paragraph or page. No invented page numbers.
Honest about limits
If a page, image or attachment can't be read, it says so before the overview.
Careful with numbers
Units, periods, per cent versus percentage points – kept as in the source.
No PR fog
“A significant milestone” becomes what happened, who it affects and when.
Brief This Doc doesn't replace the document. It gets you through it faster and shows you where to look.
Long document in. Clear brief out.
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