Industries
General chat assistants for work and personal use.
How to choose · AI assistants
Pick an assistant by the work it must do and the data it will touch, not by how impressive a demo feels. Check whether business plans keep your content out of model training, whether admins can manage seats and sign-in, which file and connector types are supported, how usage is capped, and how easily you could export your history and leave.
Comparison · AI assistants
The practical gap is control, not intelligence. Business tiers typically add contractual data commitments, administrative controls, audit options and support, while consumer accounts offer convenience and personal settings that you cannot enforce across staff. Choose by the sensitivity of the content, the number of users and whether you must demonstrate governance to clients or regulators.
Problems & fixes · AI assistants
Content you enter may be stored, reviewed by staff, used to improve models or surfaced through sharing features, depending on the product and plan. The risk is rarely a dramatic breach; it is ordinary retention and unintended disclosure. Learn the retention, training and sharing rules for your exact plan, and keep regulated, confidential and credential data out unless the agreement permits it.
Suitability · AI assistants
Assistants are strong at structuring a topic, explaining concepts, summarising supplied text and suggesting search angles. They are unreliable as a sole source of specific facts, quotations, citations and recent developments, because fluent text can be fabricated. Use them to accelerate reading and drafting, and verify every claim that carries weight against a primary source.