--- title: Else documentation description: How Else handles your work — what it costs, what it will and won't do on its own, and how to stay in control. --- Else is something you delegate to. You describe a piece of work; it makes a plan, does the work, and hands back a result — stopping to check with you before anything leaves the app, and telling you what it actually did. These pages are about how that works in practice: how to hand a job over so it comes back finished, what bounds you can put on it, and where the record of what happened lives. ## Getting started [What Else is](/docs/what-is-else) — the idea in full: what it does inside a run, what it isn't, and the three points where you stay in control. [Your first task](/docs/your-first-task) — one real delegation end to end, from the sentence you type to the file you download. ## Delegating well [Writing a good request](/docs/writing-a-good-request) — the four things that decide whether what comes back is usable. [Giving it materials](/docs/giving-it-materials) — the three ways to hand over a file, what it accepts, the size limits, and the one difference between a chat and a handed-off task. [Reviewing what comes back](/docs/reviewing-what-comes-back) — how to tell finished from stalled, where the deliverables are, and what to do when the work came back wrong. ## Billing & usage [How billing works](/docs/how-billing-works) — prepaid, metered, no subscription. The five things that can cost money, and how each is measured. [Model prices](/docs/model-prices) — the per-million-token price of every model you can pick, and which model each tier runs by default. [Reading a receipt](/docs/reading-a-receipt) — every field on a receipt, what it means, and the two places receipts appear. [Topping up](/docs/topping-up) — how to add money, what happens the first time, and what each failure message means. [When a run fails](/docs/when-a-run-fails) — what you are charged when nothing useful came back, what you keep, and why there is no refund. ## Limits & safety [Spending limits](/docs/spending-limits) — the number you set is read on work you hand off, and not on a chat. Exactly what it does, and what it does not. [When it checks with you](/docs/when-it-checks-with-you) — where it stops and waits for a decision, how to widen or narrow that, and why waiting costs you nothing. [Stopping a run](/docs/stopping-a-run) — what survives, what is thrown away, and what happens to money already spent. [What it won't do](/docs/what-it-wont-do) — the limits it actually has, split into the ones enforced mechanically and the ones written into its rules. ## Add-ons & Apps [Add-ons](/docs/add-ons) — the 13 built-in abilities every run already has, how to narrow them for a single run, and how to teach it something of your own. [Connecting your apps](/docs/connecting-apps) — what it can do inside the accounts you already use, how your credentials are stored, and which actions stop for your approval no matter what. ## Troubleshooting [Something went wrong](/docs/troubleshooting) — start here with a symptom rather than a question; each entry names the real cause and the page that fixes it. [It stopped before it finished](/docs/troubleshooting/it-stopped-early) — four different things end a run and they look identical. How to tell which one you hit. [It cost more than I expected](/docs/troubleshooting/it-cost-more-than-expected) — six checks, in the order worth doing them. [The result looks wrong](/docs/troubleshooting/the-result-looks-wrong) — the signals that separate a checkable claim from an invented one. [A connected app isn't being used](/docs/troubleshooting/app-connected-but-unused) — connecting an app doesn't put it into a run, and the home screen can't add one. --- The product itself is at [elsedoes.com](https://elsedoes.com), and [Updates](/docs/updates) is the record of what changed in it, one report per week.