For turning messy material into a deliverable

Nine files in.
One document out.

Hand Else the PDFs, spreadsheets, notes and exports you have collected, say what the finished document should be, and it reads them, works in a secure workspace, and hands the document back as a file you can download. What it could not read, it tells you — it will not fill the gap with invention.

Where the week goes

The reading was fine.
It is the assembling that hurts.

Material arrives in whatever shape it arrived in. Somebody still has to turn it into one thing with a beginning and an end.

Reading the same PDF three times
Once to see what is in it, once to find the figure, once to check you copied the figure correctly.
Copying numbers between two windows
Spreadsheet on the left, document on the right, and a transcription error waiting somewhere in the middle.
Formatting instead of writing
Headings, a consistent table, a version that opens on someone else’s machine. None of it is the thinking, all of it is the afternoon.
Six sources that disagree
Two notes and a spreadsheet give three different totals, and reconciling them is nobody’s favourite hour.
The hand-off, word for word

Tell it the shape
of the finished thing.

The more precisely you describe the deliverable, the less of it you have to redo yourself.

Copy this, change the brackets

“Here are six files — two PDFs, a spreadsheet and three sets of notes. Read all of them and write me one brief: a one-page summary, then a section per source with the figures, then a list of anything the sources disagree about. Save it as a Word document, and the figures as a spreadsheet, in the workspace. If a file isn’t readable, say so instead of guessing.”

Attach the files in the composer by picking, pasting or dragging them in — up to five, 5 MB each. That last sentence is not decoration: Else already refuses to invent contents for a document it could not read, and asking for the gap in writing means you get a list of what is missing instead of a silently thinner brief.

What it does, what you get

It reads, then it writes files.

These abilities are switched on by default, and you can see them listed for the run before you send it.

01 — TAKES IT IN
Convert to text, PDF reader
Convert to text turns a file into clean, editable text. PDF reader pulls readable text out of a PDF. Word documents, spreadsheets and slide decks are read directly.
02 — DOES THE WORK
A secure workspace
The run works in a secure workspace where it can open your material, run the numbers, and build the output. You watch the stages as they happen rather than waiting on a spinner.
03 — WRITES IT OUT
Documents you download
Word documents, spreadsheets and slide decks are written as well as read, alongside reports and briefs, code files, and a website built as files. Everything lands under the run’s outputs as a download.
Cost and control

One document,
one accountable run.

Nothing is bundled and nothing is a credit. The run spends from your balance and shows you the itemization.

Which tier it runs on
Auto · Fast · Smart · Max
Price depends on the tier — Auto, Fast, Smart, or Max. Long documents and heavy spreadsheets are exactly where the choice matters: Fast is the cheapest acceptable answer, Max is the deepest reasoning, Auto decides per request.
The limit for this run
$0.15 by default · up to $5
Every run carries a spend limit — $0.15 by default, and you can set it as high as $5. Reach it and the run pauses and asks you before going on. A long document is the most likely thing to reach it, which is why the pause exists at all.
The receipt at the end
Total, limit, itemized
Total, the limit and how much of it was used, and itemized lines describing what was done. Charges are not rounded for tidiness.

You will not find a “$X per report” figure here. A tier carries no fixed price by design, so the honest numbers are the ones on your own receipt.

Where it falls short

What it does badly
with a pile of files.

Most of these are hard limits rather than rough edges, so it is better to know them before you plan a deadline around them.

A scanned PDF is a picture, not a document
If a PDF is a photograph of a page there is no text to extract. It comes back empty with a warning. That is the honest outcome, but it means some of your material may simply be unusable without you re-typing it.
The background hand-off is text only
A conversation takes 5 files at 5 MB each. A hand-off you leave running takes text only, 100 KB across at most 5 files, because PDF, Office and image inputs have to run in the live conversation to be mounted in the workspace. Plan around it: heavy material means staying in the conversation.
It is not a designer
It can generate a design or procedural artwork as a real download, but when image generation is unavailable for a run it says so instead of passing a hand-built layout off as a generated image. Visual polish is not what you are buying.
A website arrives as files, not a link
It builds and previews a website you download. It does not publish it to an address for you — if you want it live, you host it.
The spend limit is a brake, not a wall
The spend limit is a brake, not a wall. It is checked between steps, so one long step can finish a little above the number you set before the run pauses. Read it as “stop soon after this”, not “never exceed this”.
Runs fail, and failure is still billed
Runs do fail. Couldn’t finish is a real outcome you will see, and what already ran is still charged — there is no refund path. Stopping a run yourself works the same way: finished files are kept, money already spent stays spent.
Fair questions

Asked and answered.

How many files can I give it, and how big?
In a conversation: up to 5 files, 5 MB each. Documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, text and source files are accepted, and you can pick them, paste them, or drag them in. If a file is not supported it says so: add a document, spreadsheet, image, PDF, text or source file under 5 MB.
Why does a background hand-off take fewer files?
A hand-off you leave running accepts text only — up to 5 files, 100 KB in total. The reason is stated in the app itself: PDF, Office and image inputs currently run in the live conversation so they can be mounted in the secure workspace. If your material is PDFs or Office files, start it as a conversation.
What can it hand back?
A written answer in the run, plus files under the run's outputs that you download. It can read and write Word documents, spreadsheets and slide decks, create reports and briefs, produce code files, and build a website as files. Results preview in the run as HTML, CSV, Markdown, code, image, PDF or plain text.
What happens with a scanned PDF?
A scanned or image-only PDF has no text layer, so it comes back empty with a warning. Else treats that as an honest result rather than an error, and will not fabricate document content it did not actually read.
Can it save the finished document back into Google Drive?
Google Drive can be connected to read files you share and save finished work back to a folder. Saving is a write action, so it asks you before it happens under the default setting, and every action a connected app performs shows up on your receipt.
Other kinds of work

Not quite your job?

Give it the pile.
Ask for one document.

Free to start · no card needed · Price depends on the tier — Auto, Fast, Smart, or Max.

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