A chatbot with an upload slot is not a document workspace.
You have probably already tried uploading documents to a general-purpose AI and asking questions. It works for a few minutes. Then the session ends, the context disappears, and the next question starts from nothing.
Search+ is not another upload slot. It is a persistent workspace where documents, standing instructions, conversations, and source-grounded evidence stay connected — so the work accumulates instead of resetting.
Upload. Ask. Lose everything. Repeat.
The experience is familiar:
Upload three PDFs. Ask a question. Get a reasonable answer. Ask a follow-up. Get a reasonable follow-up.
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Tomorrow, upload the same three PDFs. Restate what you care about. Ask the same follow-up but phrased differently because the original conversation is gone.
The chatbot never knew what mattered to you. It knew what you uploaded in that session. Those are different things.
Three structural differences.
Persistence. The documents stay. The conversations stay. The standing instructions you set — your priorities, terminology, evidence standards — stay. Return next week and the workspace is where you left it.
Source grounding. Inline citations connect claims to specific documents, available sections, and supporting excerpts. The connection between an answer and its evidence is part of the product.
Scope control. Ask across the entire collection when the answer spans documents. Narrow to one source when precision requires it. The chatbot pattern gives you neither — it searches whatever was uploaded, with no deliberate scope.
Tell the workspace what matters once. It applies to every question.
A chatbot requires you to restate your priorities with every prompt. "Focus on technical findings." "Distinguish evidence from interpretation." "Preserve citations."
In Search+, these become Workspace Context — standing instructions that shape every answer the workspace produces. Set them once. They apply until you change them.
The workspace adapts to your project. The chatbot adapts to your current prompt.
Return to a prior conversation. The context is still there.
A workspace is not a single session. It is the continuing environment for a body of work.
Reopen a prior conversation. The documents, the standing instructions, the scope, and the conversational context remain intact. Ask a follow-up question that builds on what the workspace already knows.
The work does not reset. The understanding compounds.
Move from uploading to working.
Bring your documents into a persistent workspace. Set the rules. Ask across them. Return without starting over.
Start a workspace