Purpose and best uses
Analyze is the document-centered entry point. Use it when the material you already possess is the starting point for the work: a contract, letter, pleading, memorandum, scanned page, or other document that needs explanation. Instead of beginning with a general legal question, you supply the document and receive an analysis of the extracted content. The interface accepts a file or pasted text, making it useful both for a complete electronic document and for a particular passage you want to understand.
The upload area advertises PDF, Word, image, and text files. A file appearing in the picker does not by itself establish that every page or element was successfully read. Scans, photographs, complex tables, and unusual formatting can affect extraction. The document-coverage information is therefore part of the result you should examine, not an incidental technical detail. It helps distinguish the material supplied from the material actually available to the analysis, especially when an upload is long or contains pages without ordinary selectable text.
How to use it well
Choose the cleanest copy you have and check that it is the correct document and version before uploading. If only one clause matters, pasting that clause with enough surrounding text may make the task easier to assess. If the relationship among several sections matters, supply the document rather than isolate one sentence. Avoid treating headings, signature blocks, schedules, or handwritten additions as unimportant: they can change what the text means, and their extraction may differ from the main body.
After running the analysis, compare important statements with the original. Look for the parties, dates, obligations, referenced attachments, and qualifications that the analysis identifies. If an output describes a provision you cannot find, return to the source rather than assume the description is accurate. If the application reports incomplete coverage or an unfinished analysis, read that status literally. A partially displayed answer is useful working material, but it is not evidence that the entire upload was processed or that all requested checks finished.
Example and practical limits
A useful example is a fictional service agreement containing a payment clause, renewal language, and an attached statement of work. Analyze can help you identify those components and understand how the document is organized before you formulate narrower research questions. You can then use Conversation to ask follow-up questions with appropriate document context, or use Draft's revision workflow when your actual objective is to change the agreement. Those are different tasks: explanation, ongoing discussion, and revision should not be confused.
Analyze is best used for understanding and issue spotting, followed by checking significant passages. It does not sign the document, negotiate with another party, file anything with a court, or make the document legally suitable for a particular person. Supplying a file here also should not be assumed to organize it automatically into a shared Matter. Use Matters deliberately when you need continuing case organization and authorized collaboration. Before relying on the result, preserve the original, confirm what was read, and identify the next concrete step: additional source research, a clarification question, a proposed revision, or professional review. That sequence makes the analysis useful without giving the generated summary more authority than the underlying document supports.
A useful review note records the document name, the version supplied, the reported coverage, and the specific issue you wanted explained. Keeping those details together makes it easier to assess a later answer without confusing two similar uploads or attributing text to the wrong document.