Advait Sarkar

that sells bottled beverages.

They've just had a meeting to discuss a new industry report that seems to have some pretty important findings about consumer preferences for sustainable packaging.

Clara's colleagues have asked her to write a proposal arguing for how the company ought to respond.

So she really needs to get to grips with this report, understand its findings and its data and how it fits into her business context.

She starts by loading some documents into her workspace.

There's the meeting transcript to remind her what was discussed.

There's a recent internal report from her own business.

And of course there's the industry report which she opens.

She sees an overview of the document along with section by section summaries.

Except these aren't really just summaries.

We think of them more as lenses.

They're customizable micro-representations of the text that can emphasize what is most relevant to the task at hand.

So in this case, Clara selects the consumer's lens.

She can select a section for deeper reading.

As she reads, she makes notes about her thoughts and highlights excerpts from the document.

As she reads, she also sees AI-generated commentary and critiques.

We call these provocations.

Note how this process is a hybrid of completely manual reading and completely relying on AI to read for you.

Clara still reads, but intentionally and strategically.

Now, as Clara is working, she's building up an outline of her argument manually.