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Henry is at its best when you treat it like a capable teammate rather than a search box. Tell it the outcome you want, give it the context a new hire would need, and let it use the tools.

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Two kinds of requests

Questions. “What did we decide about the pricing page last week?” “Which customers are past due?” Henry answers with sources: the thread, the record, or the document it drew from. Work. “Draft replies to the three unanswered support emails.” “Create a Linear ticket for each bug in this thread.” “Build a sheet of every active Stripe subscription with its renewal date.” Henry does the work, asks for confirmation before anything that changes your tools, and reports back in the same thread.

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Writing a good ask

  • Name the destination. “Put it in the Q3 planning sheet” beats “make a spreadsheet”.
  • Say what done looks like. “One row per customer, sorted by renewal date, flag anything renewing in 30 days.”
  • Give Henry the thread. Mention Henry inside the discussion the work is about. It reads the thread for context.
  • Ask for sources when it matters. Henry cites what it read. If you need a link, ask.

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Henry keeps working

A confirmation is never the end of the job. When you click Confirm, Henry carries on with the rest of the work and tells you when it is finished. On big jobs, Henry may finish part of the work in the background and post the result a few minutes later in the same thread. See Long-running work.

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Fast replies

In Slack, add !fast anywhere in a message to get a quicker, cheaper answer for that one message. Good for lookups where depth does not matter.

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Feedback

React with a thumbs up or thumbs down on Henry’s replies, or tell it what you wanted instead. Henry learns from corrections. If it remembered something wrong, tell it what to change and it fixes its own note.

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Recurring work belongs in a task

If you find yourself asking for the same thing every week, say so: “do this every Monday at 9”. Henry turns it into a task that runs unattended and reports back.

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Repeatable processes become workflows

When Henry notices a process your team runs regularly, it offers to save it as a standard workflow. Say “standardize this” and Henry drafts the steps for you to approve. See Workflows.