How a task runs
Everything in Workbench follows the same arc: you ask once, in plain English, and finished work comes back into the matter. This page walks that arc end to end so the rest of the section makes sense as parts of one flow.
One ask, start to finish
Take a real, everyday-shaped request, typed as one message inside a matter:
"Explain contract-for-deed under Texas law, pull the applicable Property Code text and the key cases with summaries, build the memo as a Google Doc, and draft an email to the partner for review."
Workbench plans the task
It breaks the ask into steps before doing anything: what to read, what to research, what to produce. You can watch the plan and the work unfold in the reasoning trace as it runs.
It works across your documents and accounts
It reads the right matter documents, researches the statute and the controlling cases, and reaches into the accounts you have allowed for that chat (Drive to create the doc, Gmail to prepare the draft). You connect accounts once; every task can then use them, within the permissions you set.
Citations are checked as it works
Case law comes from real sources with working links to the actual reporters, checked against CourtListener's 50M+ opinion database, never invented. Unresolved citations degrade to plain text rather than fake links.
Finished work comes back to the matter
The run above returns real deliverables: the memo as a Google Doc, a downloadable Word version, and an email draft sitting in your drafts folder, created, never sent. Results fold back into the matter, so the next ask already has what the last one produced.
You stay in control the whole way
- Steer it live. Add an instruction to a running task ("also create a Word version", "link every citation") and it adjusts course without starting over.
- Stop it. Interrupt any run mid-task.
- It never acts beyond your permissions. Email is drafted, never sent; actions are confirmation gated; each chat only reaches the accounts you allow.
Where depth comes in
The same flow runs at three depths, set by the mode selector: Quick for a fast direct answer, Standard for a memo-quality report, Thorough for a full cited investigation. The arc above doesn't change; how deep Workbench digs does.