AskIt 💼 AI for Work Lesson 2
Lesson 2 of 5 · Premium Track

Research and
summarising
with AI

⏱ 22 min 🤖 Live Claude 📄 Paste your own text

Every week, professionals are drowning in text. Reports. Contracts. Articles. Research papers. Slack threads. Meeting notes. The bottleneck isn't access to information — it's the time it takes to process it.

This lesson shows you how to turn any wall of text into exactly what you need in under 60 seconds. An executive summary, a list of action items, answers to specific questions, or a plain-English explanation — all from a single paste.

⚡ What this lesson covers

Paste any document below and choose how you want it processed. We'll cover four modes: executive brief, bullet takeaways, action items, and ask-a-question. By the end, you'll never read a long document the same way again.


Paste anything.
Get exactly what you need.

Load one of the sample texts to see how it works, or paste something you're actually dealing with right now — a contract, an article, a report, a long email chain, anything.

Document Processor
Paste any text. Get what you need.
Works with articles, reports, contracts, emails, meeting notes — anything
Load a sample to try it:
Your text
0 characters
What do you want?
Or ask a specific question about the text (optional)
✨ Result

The four modes —
when to use each

📋 Executive brief

Use this when you need to quickly understand what a document says without reading all of it. Perfect for reports, articles, and research papers. 3 sentences forces the AI to cut to the core.

📌 Key takeaways

Use this when you need to share highlights with someone else, prepare talking points, or quickly scan what's relevant in a long document. Bullet format is easy to skim and forward.

✅ Action items

Use this on meeting notes, project briefs, or any document that implies something needs to happen. The AI is surprisingly good at extracting implied tasks — things that aren't explicitly listed as actions but clearly need follow-up.

❓ Ask a question

The most powerful mode. Instead of reading a 40-page contract to find one clause, you paste it and ask your specific question. "What are the penalty clauses?" "Does this cover remote work?" "What are my exit options?" You get a direct answer in seconds.

Advanced techniques
for research

Beyond summarising, AI can help you do research in ways that save hours. Here are three techniques worth knowing:

🔍 Technique 1: Comparative analysis

Paste two documents and ask AI to compare them: "What are the key differences between these two proposals?" or "Which contract terms are more favourable and why?" Comparing two 10-page documents manually takes an hour. With AI: 2 minutes.

🧩 Technique 2: Gap analysis

Ask AI what's missing: "What questions does this report not answer?", "What information would you need before making this decision?", "What are the weaknesses in this argument?" AI is good at seeing what isn't there.

📊 Technique 3: Synthesise multiple sources

Paste several articles or documents and ask: "Across all of this, what is the consensus view? Where do these sources disagree? What is the most important takeaway?" You get synthesis that would take a researcher an afternoon.

Key takeaway

Long documents are no longer a time burden. Paste, choose your mode, get exactly what you need. The question is never "what does this say?" — it's "what do I need from this?"

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