An AI document assistant that reads, so you can decide
Search+ is an AI document assistant for reading, not writing. You give it the PDFs that matter to a piece of work, and it answers your questions about them: what a document says, where two documents differ, what a set has in common. Each answer cites the passages it used. It does not draft letters, rewrite clauses or edit your files. Think of it as the assistant who has read every page and can point to the line, while you make the decisions and do the writing.
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Jobs you can hand to the assistant
These are reading jobs: questions about documents you already have. The assistant answers in prose and cites the passages.
Ask for a summary of the single PDF. The reply walks through the main terms in order, and each point carries a citation you can open if the call turns on it.
With both proposals in the workspace, ask for the differences. The answer describes each difference and cites the passage in each proposal.
Paste the claim and ask where it comes from. Search+ answers with the passages that support it, each one cited, so you can judge whether the claim holds.
Upload the transcripts as PDFs and ask for recurring themes. Each theme is listed with citations to the transcripts where it appears.
What is an AI document assistant?
The phrase covers two different kinds of tool. Writing assistants help you create documents: drafting, rewriting, formatting or translating text. Reading assistants help you understand documents you already have: answering questions, summarizing, comparing and locating evidence. Search+ is a reading assistant. It works over PDFs in a workspace, answers questions in plain language, and ties every point to the excerpt it came from, so you can check its reading against the source. Standing instructions in Workspace Context let you tell it once how to approach a project, for example which document takes priority, and it applies that to every question.
How to work with the assistant
- Set up the project
Create a workspace and give it a name that matches the piece of work.
- Hand over the reading
Upload the PDFs, up to 10 per batch by drag and drop. Each file shows its status while it is processed in the background.
- Give standing instructions
Add Workspace Context with anything the assistant should always keep in mind, such as the terms your team uses or which source is authoritative.
- Ask, check, continue
Ask questions about the whole workspace or one document, open citations to check the reading, and come back to the conversation later.
What the assistant can do for you
Ask for a summary of one PDF or of everything in the workspace, with citations on each point.
Ask how two or more documents differ and get a cited answer that points to each source.
Find themes and repeated claims across a set of documents.
Check where a claim comes from by asking for the passages that support it, and open each excerpt.
Workspace Context applies your standing instructions to every question in the workspace.
Conversations and workspaces are saved, so a long piece of reading can span several sessions.
What the assistant does not do
Search+ does not write, rewrite or edit documents, and it cannot change the files you upload.
Answers stay in the conversation. There is no export to Word, PDF or spreadsheet.
It can read legal, financial or medical PDFs, but it does not give legal or other professional advice, and its answers can be incomplete or inaccurate.
Search+ compared with a general chatbot
Many people paste document text into a general-purpose chatbot. A reading assistant built around your documents works differently.
| Need | General chatbot with pasted text | Search+ |
|---|---|---|
| Many long documents | Paste in pieces, lose track | Upload the PDFs to one workspace |
| Knowing where an answer came from | Usually no link to the source | Citation to the excerpt on each point |
| Keeping project instructions | Repeat them each chat | Workspace Context applies them every time |
| Returning next week | Start again | Saved workspace and conversation |
| Drafting new text | Yes | No, Search+ reads and answers only |
AI document assistant questions
Is there a free AI document assistant?
Is Search+ on GitHub?
Can Search+ act as a legal document assistant?
Can it write or edit my documents?
How do I make it follow my team's terminology?
Can it handle a long reading list?
Does it remember what I asked before?
How do I know it read the document correctly?
Which document formats can the assistant read?
Hand over the reading, keep the judgment
Put the documents in a workspace and ask your first question.
Start a workspace