Chat and Workflows

Chat and Workflows are the two ways to put Papero's AI to work on your sources. Chat answers questions beside your document, from your PDFs and the text you are writing, and cites the passages it used. On Plus it can also search the web and read an image you attach. A Workflow takes a topic, finds papers in the background and writes a first draft with cited papers as a new document.

In this section

1. Chat with your library: ask about your PDFs and your document, pick papers with @, upload a PDF from the chat, search the web or attach an image on Plus, and insert answers with their citations.
2. Saved prompts and actions: save the questions you ask often, reuse them with /, and run actions such as Summarise or Check my citations.
3. Workflows: set up a literature review or a research gap analysis, choose its depth and where it looks, and work on the draft it writes.
4. Your AI allowance: what uses your allowance, the monthly fair-use limit, and where to see what you have left.

Chat or a Workflow?

• Use Chat to understand your sources while you write: what a paper found, how two studies compare, or which claims in a section need a citation. You choose the papers, and you decide what goes into your document.
• Use a Workflow to get started on a topic you have not written about yet. Papero plans the search, picks the papers, writes the sections and cites them. You come back to a draft you can edit.

How they fit together

1. Add the PDFs of the papers you rely on to your library. See Upload PDFs.
2. Start a Workflow from New in the sidebar for a first draft on your topic, or start writing on your own.
3. Open Chat beside the draft and ask about your papers. Press a source in an answer to cite it, or open the passage it used in the PDF reader. See The PDF reader.
4. Check the draft with Review my draft before you hand it in. You can also start a check from Chat by typing /. See Review checks.

Free and Plus

Chat and Workflows are on both plans. On Free, Chat answers from your PDFs and the document you are writing, and Workflows run at Low depth. On Plus, Chat can also answer from the abstracts of papers that have no PDF, search the web and read an image you attach, and Workflows run at every depth. Each plan has its own allowance of chat answers and Workflow runs. To compare the plans, see pricing.

Your data

When you use Chat or a Workflow, Papero sends the text it needs to OpenAI, such as your question or topic and passages of your PDFs. Your conversations and runs are stored privately with your account and never used to train AI models.

With Web on, OpenAI's web search runs searches for the answer, and an image you attach goes to OpenAI with that question only. What Papero stores and for how long is in Privacy and your data and the Privacy Policy.

To see Chat and Workflows as they look in the app, read the features page on papero.ai.