Spot, the in-app agent

Spot answers questions about the project you are in, from the data you can already open. Ask what changed this week, where replies are waiting or what to do first today. Spot reads the rows, compares the numbers and answers with the facts and the links behind them. When an answer points to a change, Spot prepares it as a card, and nothing changes until you apply it. Where your setting under Settings, Agents applies that kind of change at once, it is made at once instead, with "Take back" for a day.

Spot is also the small figure in the rail's foot that shows what Autopilot is doing. In the panel it stands beside each answer, moving while it works.

Open Spot

• Press "Ask Spot" in the strip across the top of any page, or in the rail's foot under "Engine room".
• Press g, then q.
• Open search (Ctrl K or ⌘ K), type your question and pick the "Ask Spot" row. The panel opens with your question already sent. When nothing matches, the "Ask Spot" row is the one highlighted, so Enter asks Spot.

On screens 1280px wide or more the panel docks at the right and the page stays usable beside it. On narrower screens it opens as a full-height sheet. Press Escape or "Close Spot" to close it.

What Spot can see

Spot reads exactly what you can open in the app, under your role and your project access. A member who works on two projects asks about those two.

The "Looking at" row at the top of the panel names what goes with your question: the project and the page you are on (for example "Outreach: Inbox"). What the chips say is exactly what is sent. Press a chip's X ("Leave this out") to remove it, and "Attach again" to bring it back.

Anyone can ask how the projects they work on are doing side by side, and where the plan's limits stand: the same numbers Settings, Billing shows every member. Questions about the account itself, such as who its members are or its usage from a page outside a project, are for owners and admins.

How to ask

1. Open the panel on the project you want to ask about.
2. Check the "Looking at" chips and remove any you do not want sent.
3. Type your question, or press a starter chip. An empty thread offers up to four, such as "What changed this week?", "What should happen first today?" and "Quick decisions only".
4. Press Enter to send. Shift+Enter adds a line.
5. Read the working line while Spot works (for example "Working out what to read" or "Putting the answer together"), with a clock beside it. When Spot prepares a change, the line reads "Preparing a card for you".

One question runs at a time. Outside a project, owners and admins get account starters such as "How are my projects doing?".

How an answer reads

Every answer has the same shape:

• A lead line, good news first, crediting you: "You got 9 replies this week, 4 of them a yes."
• Up to five facts, the value in mono and the label in words. A fact about one thing links to it.
• Short plain sentences. A page, keyword or topic they name shows as a link chip.
• Sources: links to the exact rows in the app.
• "Show the work": the reads Spot ran, each with its row count.
• Up to three buttons that open a view in the app.
• A caveat line when the sample is small, a scan stopped short or the window is short.

Every number comes from a read Spot ran. Comparisons (up, down, by how much) are computed by the platform over complete days ending yesterday, never estimated. When a figure moved, Spot says what moved alongside it, never what caused it.

Tables, charts and drafts

An answer can carry up to two blocks, each drawn from the rows Spot read.

• A table of two to five columns. The first six rows show, and "Show all N" opens the rest in place. "Expand" opens the table full size. On a phone it keeps the name and two more columns, with the rest in the full view.
• A small chart of one figure over days or periods. Hover, or use the arrow keys, to read a value. "Expand" opens it full size.
• A draft: text with "Copy" and "Download" (a .txt file). Nothing is sent anywhere. You take the words where you want them.

A table row that names a page, a keyword or a content topic can carry a small toggle named for the row (for example "Actions for dentist near me"). It opens up to two buttons:

A press never applies anything. It asks for a change card, which appears under the answer.

What Spot can prepare

Ask in plain words and Spot prepares the change as a card. For example:

• Steer the deck. "No listings" becomes a rule for the project; "quick decisions on pricing prompts only" becomes a focus for your deck today. "Make it a rule" or "Just for today" switches the card if Spot read it the other way.
• Set today's decision budget.
• Move pages. Park, bring back or promote pages, up to 200 at a time.
• Start work. Research contacts, draft nudges for follow-ups that are due, run the pipeline now, or run a failed or canceled run again.
• Change what you track. Add or remove keywords, add competitors.
• Content. Outline a page on a topic, check your site again or read your site.

Each card shows its effect, computed from the real rows, before you decide. You press Apply, Edit or Dismiss, and Undo where the card offers it. Change cards: apply and undo covers every part of a card.

Cards your own agent asked for sit first in the panel, under "Waiting for you". See Connect your own agent over MCP.

Threads

A thread is one conversation about one project, or about the account. It follows the project under you and never carries on under another project.

• Press "Your threads" in the panel header to see your earlier threads for that project, newest first. "New thread" starts over.
• Threads are yours alone. Threads your own agent opened are listed too, titled "Your agent asked: …".
• A thread untouched for 90 days is removed.
• "Talk to a person" at the foot of a thread opens a support request titled "About a Spot thread", with the thread attached.

What Spot never does

• Apply a change on its own, unless your setting under Settings, Agents applies that kind of change at once. Every other change waits for your press on its card, and every change runs in your name.
• Send a pitch or a reply, unless Spot's column of "Emails and posts to publishers" applies at once, or post anything. Nudges it drafts wait in Outreach for your approval.
• Pay a publisher, or touch billing, plans and purchases.
• Change members, invites or roles, or connect a mailbox. When a mailbox needs reconnecting, Spot points you to Settings, then Mailboxes, where you press Reconnect yourself.
• Publish anything, or delete anything for good. A keyword you remove through a card moves to the Archived tab on the Keywords page, where you can restore it.
• Claim a win, confirm a placement or lift a do-not-contact on its own. Each waits as a card for you.
• Change how the platform scores pages.
• Read past what you can open.

Limits

Good to know

• At the hourly limit, Spot says when the next question opens: "Spot answers 30 questions an hour per person. The next one opens in N minutes."
• If a turn fails, Spot says "Spot could not answer that" with the reason, for example "The answer was cut off. Ask a narrower question." A failed turn changes nothing.
• A rule you apply shows for everyone on the project, as a chip in the deck header and on the Rules step of Autopilot as "set through Spot". Your questions stay in your threads.