What buddies can do.

Anything you do in a window, a buddy can do with you. Here are the things people ask for most, and how a buddy pulls each one off.

✉️ Re: Thursday?
Hi Dana! Thursday at 3 works great 😊
Say yes, keep it friendly
Drafted ✓ Send it?
Email

Write and answer email

Attach a buddy to Mail or Gmail. It reads the thread and writes the reply right in your draft, in your tone.

  • Replies, follow-ups and summaries of long threads
  • Finds the email you meant, by what's in it
  • Always asks before it presses Send
“Answer Dana, yes to Thursday”
📄 Q3 Plan.docx
Launch moves to Nov 14
Budget +12%
Summary
• Launch Nov 14
• Budget up 12%
• 2 open questions
Docs

Read and write documents

In Word, Pages, Google Docs or a PDF, it reads along with you, then summarizes, rewrites or drafts new sections in place.

  • Summaries, red flags and key dates
  • Rewrites a paragraph, fixes tone, translates
  • Turns notes into a polished doc
“What changed in this version?”
🎧
Wireless headphones
$249 $299
🛒 Checkout
Ships to Home
Total $249
Waiting for your OK
Shopping

Find it, compare it, order it

It searches stores, compares prices and reviews, fills your cart and checks out with your saved address.

  • Side-by-side picks with prices and ratings
  • Your address filled from your vault
  • You confirm the total before it pays
“Best noise-cancelling under $300”
JFK
8:40 PM
✈️
LIS
May 12
🏨 Alfama · 4 nights
🚆 Sintra day trip · Sun
Aisle seat, as you like ✓
Travel

Plan and book trips

Flights, hotels, restaurants and day trips: it searches, compares and books, remembering how you like to travel.

  • Finds fares and watches for drops
  • Builds a day-by-day plan
  • Puts it all on your calendar
“A long weekend in Lisbon in May”
✅ This week
☑ Send launch deck
☑ Book dentist
☐ Review Ana's PR today
☐ Pay Con Ed bill
2 done, 2 to go 💪
Tasks

Keep your to-dos moving

In Todoist, Notion, Linear or Reminders, it turns emails and notes into tasks, sorts them and nudges you on time.

  • Captures tasks from anything you're reading
  • Plans your day by priority
  • Reminds you of what only you can do
“Turn this thread into tasks”
✈️ NYC → LIS fare
checked every morning
🔔 $389, under $400!
Tracking

Keep an eye on anything

Prices, packages, stocks, a page that changes: it checks on its own schedule and pings your notch when it matters.

  • Alerts when something crosses a line
  • Live widgets on your desktop
  • Runs quietly, even with the tab closed
“Tell me when this drops under $400”
● Recording · 12:40
Dana: Ship the beta on the 14th.
Ana: ¿Y el post? (And the post?)
📝 Summary
✅ Beta Nov 14
☐ You: post by Nov 13
Meetings

Record, transcribe, summarize

Attach a buddy to Zoom, Meet or any call. It notices the call, records, transcribes in any language and hands you the notes.

  • Live transcript with translation
  • Decisions and action items, ready to share
  • Ask about any past meeting
“What did we decide about the launch?”
▶︎
📺 iPhone Duo review · 15:59
🎧 Listening along…
📝 Key points
0:03 The trade-offs
0:12 Why he kept it
🔖 iPhone 18 Pro
Watch & listen

Listen along to videos and podcasts

Play a YouTube video, a podcast or a voice note in your window and say Listen. Your buddy hears only that app, transcribes it, and answers your questions while it plays.

  • Summaries with key points and their times
  • Names, products, books and links pulled out
  • Ask “what did he just say?” mid-video
“Tell me about what we just listened to”
⚙️ Log new orders
🕘 Weekdays 9:00 & 16:30
👀 Orders page → 📊 Sheet
Last run: 3 rows added
Runs on its own ✓
Automation

Put routine work on autopilot

Describe a chore once and it becomes a job: on a schedule, it looks, acts, and tells you only when something changed.

  • Daily reports, syncs and backups
  • Bots and small services that keep running
  • Pause, stop or check any job anytime
“Every morning, log new orders”
📊 Trip budget
ItemCost
Hotel · Alfama$540
Sintra tour$85
✈️ Flight$612
Total$1,237
Added + totals fixed ✓
Spreadsheets

Build and clean up sheets

In Sheets, Excel or Numbers it builds tables, writes formulas, cleans data and charts it, all in your file.

  • Whole styled tables in one go
  • Formulas explained in plain words
  • Charts from any range
“Make a budget for this trip”
🔎 3 options
A · $19/mo · ★4.6
B · $12/mo · ★4.8 ✓
C · $25/mo · ★4.1
Why B
Cheapest, best reviews, has the export you need.
Research

Look things up for you

It browses out of sight, signed in as you, reads the pages and brings back a clear answer with sources.

  • Comparisons, reviews and specs
  • Reads sites you're signed in to
  • Saves PDFs and files to Downloads
“Which of these tools fits us best?”
📅 Next week
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
3:00
Dana
Booked + invite sent ✓
Calendar

Schedule without the back-and-forth

It finds a time that works, books the room or restaurant, and adds it to your calendar with the details.

  • Finds open slots across calendars
  • Books tables, rooms and appointments
  • Adds directions and reminders
“Find an hour with Dana next week”
# launch-team · Slack
Ana: can someone share the beta link?
Yoni: and the release notes 🙏
You (draft): Here's the beta link + notes 👇
Ready to post?
Messaging

Keep up on every chat app

In Slack, WhatsApp, Messages, Telegram or Teams, it catches you up on what you missed and drafts replies in the thread.

  • “What did I miss?” summaries
  • Replies with the right link or file attached
  • Never posts without your OK
“Catch me up on #launch-team”
🍝 Dinner for Mom's birthday
Noa · Sat 7pm ✓
Dad · Sat 7pm ✓
Amit · asking…
Table for 5 held at Via Carota
Coordinate

Get people on the same page

With colleagues or family, it asks around, collects answers, finds what works for everyone and follows up with whoever's late.

  • Finds the time and place that fits
  • Knows who's who from your People list
  • Sends the plan once you approve it
“Plan Mom's birthday dinner with Noa and Dad”
<section class="hero">
  <h1>Fresh bread</h1>
  <a href="#order">Order
</section>
🥖 Fresh bread
Order
Websites

Build and update websites

From a blank page to a live site: it writes the code, previews it in Chrome, and edits it with you in plain words.

  • Landing pages, portfolios, small shops
  • “Make the button bigger” just works
  • Edits in VS Code, Webflow or Squarespace
“A one-page site for my bakery”
Q4 REVIEW
Revenue up 32%
8 slides, on brand ✓
Presentations

Make decks that look great

In Keynote, PowerPoint or Slides, it turns notes, docs or data into a clean deck with charts, in your template.

  • Outline to finished slides
  • Charts made from your numbers
  • Speaker notes included
“Turn this doc into an 8-slide deck”
📥 Inbox · 47 new
Now Contract from legal
Now Server alert · prod
Today Ana's PR review
Later 41 newsletters & FYIs
2 need you now
Triage

Sort what needs you first

Across email, Slack, Jira or GitHub, it reads what came in, ranks it, and tells you the few things that actually need you.

  • Now, today, later, ignore
  • Drafts quick replies for the easy ones
  • Adds the rest to your task list
“What needs me this morning?”
💬 Chat triage · 63 unread
Now WhatsApp · Mom: call me?
Now Slack · @you in #launch
Today Telegram · Yoni's question
Later 58 group chats & FYIs
2 replies drafted ✓
Chat triage

Triage every chat app

WhatsApp, Slack, Messages, Telegram, Teams, Discord, Signal: it goes through what came in, ranks it, and tells you what needs you first.

  • Now, today, later, ignore, on any platform
  • Spots questions, mentions and people who matter
  • Drafts replies, never sends without your OK
“Anything in my chats I need to answer?”
⬇️ Downloads
IMG_2041.jpg
invoice (3).pdf
Untitled-final2.docx
scan_0912.pdf
→
📁 Receipts · 2026
📁 Photos · Lisbon
📁 Work · Q3 Plan
📁 Taxes
Files

Organize your files

In Finder, Drive or Dropbox, it looks inside your files, renames them sensibly and sorts them into folders that make sense.

  • Renames by what's actually in the file
  • Finds duplicates and old downloads
  • Shows you the plan before it moves anything
“Clean up my Downloads folder”
🎁 Gift ideas
Mom · pour-over set
Noa · wool socks
Dad · vinyl player ✨
📚 Books to read
Project Hail Mary
The Overstory
Piranesi
Saved to Gift ideas ✓
Lists

Keep the lists that matter

Gift ideas, books, wines you liked, your kids' sizes: say “save this” anywhere and it lands in the right list, ready for any buddy to use.

  • Makes a new list when nothing fits
  • Fills in links, prices and details for you
  • Shows a list on your desktop as a widget
“Save this as a gift idea for Dad”
⏱ STOPWATCH
12:48.3
Lap 3 · 4:02.7
🍝 Pasta · 4 min left
Timers

Stopwatches and timers on your screen

Ask and it puts a stopwatch, timer or countdown right on your desktop, and rings your notch when time's up.

  • Stopwatch with laps
  • Several timers at once, each with a name
  • Countdowns to a trip or a deadline
“Start a stopwatch” · “Pasta timer, 10 min”
✏️ ⬜ ⚪ ➖
Drew it with the pen tool ✓
Drawing

Draw right in your app

In Freeform, Figma, Excalidraw or any whiteboard, it picks the tools and draws for you: sketches, diagrams, mockups.

  • Uses the app's own pens, shapes and colors
  • Flowcharts and diagrams from a description
  • Fixes and restyles what's already there
“Draw a little house with a tree”
🎟️ Radio City · Sat 8 PM
4 tickets · Orchestra, row K
Total $356.00
💳 Visa •••• 4242 · 📍 Home
🔒
Buy for $356?
YesNo
Buy online

Check out for you

Tickets, reorders, subscriptions, bills: it fills the checkout from your vault and stops for your OK on the total.

  • Address and contact filled safely, never shown
  • Reorders what you bought before
  • Nothing is paid until you say yes
“4 tickets for Saturday's show”
📝 This week
☑ Oat milk ×2
☑ Eggs, bananas
☑ Pasta + basil
☑ Coffee beans
🛒 Whole Foods
14 items · $86.40
Delivery Sun 10–12
Ready for your OK
Groceries

Do the weekly shop

Hand it your list, a recipe or last week's order. It fills the cart at your store, swaps what's out of stock and books a delivery slot.

  • Lists from recipes and what you ran out of
  • Smart swaps, your brands first
  • Instacart, Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh…
“Order what we need for pasta night”
☀️ Sunday with the kids
9:30 🦕 Natural History Museum
12:30 🍕 Lunch at Joe's
2:00 🛝 Central Park playground
4:30 🍦 Ice cream, home by 5
Tickets booked · 72°F ☀️
Family day

Plan a great day out

Tell it who's coming and what they like. It builds the day around naps, weather and travel time, books what needs booking and shares the plan.

  • Kid-friendly ideas near you
  • Checks hours, weather and distances
  • Sends the plan to the family
“Plan Sunday with the kids”
✉️ To: Maya · Head of Ops
Hi Maya, saw your team just opened Austin. Quick idea for onboarding…
✓ Name & role right
✓ Austin news checked
⚠ Too long, cut the 2nd line
2 fixes, then it's good to go
Cold outreach

Validate cold messages

Before you hit send in Gmail, LinkedIn or lemlist, it checks every cold message: the facts, the tone and whether it'll land.

  • Checks names, titles and company news against the web
  • Flags spammy words, long intros and weak asks
  • Suggests a sharper version, never sends on its own
“Is this cold email ready to send?”
Can you also…? Sure 😊
And more

Whatever you're working on

If it happens in a window on your Mac, a buddy can learn it. Design files, code, forms, chats, dashboards: just attach and ask.

  • Works in any app, not a fixed list
  • Remembers how you like things done
  • Make a new buddy for each new job
“Here's how I do it, now you try”

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