Chat & AI
Choosing how hard the AI thinks
The Effort picker trades speed and cost against depth. Pick it per chat, and it carries over to your next one.
Step 1
Find the Effort picker
It is the pill with the gauge inside the message box, just before Send, on the start screen and in every chat. Hover it to see the current level, press it to open the slider.
Press Enter to send, Shift+Enter for new line
Step 2
The five levels
Drag the slider or press a name. Auto uses the model's own default. Fast gives quick answers with the least thinking and the lowest cost. Balanced suits everyday questions and drafts. Thorough is deeper reasoning for complex work and for extracting everything from long files. Max is everything the model has, the slowest and the most expensive. The box above the track explains whichever level is under the thumb.
Everyday questions and drafts
Step 3
Higher levels cost more
Thorough and Max use more of your credits per reply, and the gauge turns from green through amber to red as you go up. Use them for long documents, careful analysis or tricky problems, and drop back to Balanced for ordinary chat.
Everything the model has. Slowest, costs the most
Step 4
Some levels may be locked
The levels you can pick follow your plan and role. Locked levels are faint at the end of the track, the slider stops before them, and the box reads "Higher levels are available on a higher plan." Ask your organisation admin if you need them.
Everyday questions and drafts
Higher levels are available on a higher plan.
Step 5
One choice, remembered
Once you pick a level the pill turns grey and the gauge shows its colour. Your last choice is remembered on this device and applies to new chats, existing chats and document summaries until you change it.
Press Enter to send, Shift+Enter for new line
Try it in Secretary, or create an account to get started.
Related guides
Starting a new chat
The start screen, starter prompts, temporary chats, and what New chat does once you are already in a conversation.
Attaching files to a chat message
Add a file from your computer so the AI can read it: press the paperclip, drag it in, or paste it.
Scoping a chat to specific documents or folders
Point the AI at exactly the files in your library it should answer from, and choose how deeply it reads them.