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 and read it there. If the application reports incomplete coverage or an unfinished analysis, read that status literally: a partially displayed answer is working material, and the coverage information tells you how much of the upload was processed and which checks finished.
Example and workflow
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 reading the significant passages in the source. A file supplied here stays with this analysis; use Matters when you want continuing case organization and authorized collaboration. Keep the original beside the analysis, read the coverage information to see what was extracted, and choose the next concrete step: additional source research, a clarification question, or a proposed revision. That sequence turns a first reading into a plan for the work that follows.
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.