Chat interface

Chat with Bravo from the Chrome extension sidebar or the dashboard. You can choose which AI model handles a chat from the composer. See Choosing a model.

While Bravo works, its latest step shows in a card with earlier steps stacked behind it. Click the stack to see them all.

Sidebar chat is best when the current browser tab matters. Dashboard chat is best for standalone work and chat history, and it works on any device, including your phone, with no extension needed. When the extension is connected, the dashboard can also work with pages you already have open in Chrome. See Dashboard for starting, reopening, searching, renaming, deleting, and recovering chats.

From a sidebar conversation, use Open in dashboard from the chat menu to continue in the dashboard. Shift-click or Cmd-click the sidebar's New chat button to start a fresh chat in the dashboard instead.

The recent conversations button at the top of the sidebar opens Recents, where you can reopen or search your chats without leaving the page.

See Recents.

See the sidebar menu and dashboard.

Formatting your message

Use bold and italic to give parts of your message emphasis: press Cmd+B or Cmd+I (Ctrl+B / Ctrl+I on Windows/Linux), or type **bold** or *italic*. Start a line with - or 1. for a list, and press Shift+Enter to start a new line without sending. Your sent message keeps the formatting.

Page awareness

In the sidebar, Bravo can use the browser tab you are viewing, so you can ask questions about a webpage, email, or document without leaving the page. With the extension installed, dashboard chats can also answer questions about pages you have open in Chrome. See Page and URL access for browser tab details.

See page awareness.

Asking about a selection

Highlighting text on any webpage shows a small Ask button next to the selection. Click it to open the sidebar with that text loaded as a quote above the message box, then type your question and it sends along with the quote attached.

The quote shows the page's favicon and title, and you can remove it with the ×. Anything you leave in the message box is kept as a draft for that browser tab, in the sidebar and the dashboard alike: your typed text, any attachments, and the quote. Navigate to other pages in the tab, close and reopen the sidebar, or refresh the dashboard, and the draft is undisturbed. Each chat keeps its own draft, so switch chats and the quote waits behind in the one it landed in. Come back and it's still there, ready to send, until you close the tab or the browser.

Turn it off by unchecking “Show an Ask button when you select text on a page” in the extension's options. See the options page in Getting started.

See the Ask button and quote.

Working with files

Attach files with the paperclip icon, drag-and-drop, or paste files and images directly into the message box. Long pasted text is attached as a text file so Bravo can work with it as a document. Folders can be dragged onto the sidebar and are automatically zipped for upload. You can send a file on its own, without typing anything.

See file upload.

Each file can be up to 50 MB, and a conversation can have up to 100 files. Once a file is attached, ask Bravo to summarize it, answer questions, compare it with another file, extract data, or turn it into a new downloadable file.

  • Summarize a PDF, Word document, spreadsheet, CSV, image, video, audio recording, or archive.
  • Compare multiple files and pull out differences, action items, dates, or totals.
  • Create a downloadable Word document, PowerPoint deck, CSV, spreadsheet, or ZIP.
  • Redline a Word document you uploaded. Suggested edits come back as real tracked changes you accept or reject one by one in Word.
  • Convert a document, presentation, or diagram to a downloadable PDF, or an older spreadsheet or Numbers file to Excel.

Bravo works best with PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, CSVs, text or Markdown files, saved emails (.eml), images, videos, audio recordings, and ZIP/GZ archives. That includes older Office versions, OpenDocument formats, Apple iWork, and Visio diagrams. Bravo also reads the comments and tracked changes in Word documents (.doc and .docx, with who wrote each one and when, which text each one refers to, any replies, and whether a comment is resolved), the notes attached to spreadsheet cells, and the speaker notes in presentations (.ppt, .pptx, .odp, and .key), where hidden slides are labeled as hidden. With a video or an audio recording (.mov, .mp4, .m4a, .mp3, and the other common phone and browser formats), Bravo describes what is shown and what is said, or writes out a full transcript if you ask for one. With a PDF, Bravo can merge several files into one, split one apart, and fill in form fields. Folders containing these files can be dragged in too.

Files from connected apps work similarly. If Gmail, Outlook Mail, Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox is connected, Bravo can read attachments and files you have access to. Those integrations are read-only: Bravo can analyze the original, and if you ask for changes it will return a separate downloadable file instead of editing the source.

If you want a file back, name the output format, for example make this a CSV, create a Word doc, make a spreadsheet, build a PowerPoint deck, or give me a downloadable PDF.

If an upload fails, remove it or retry the upload. Common causes include files over the size limit, invalid filenames, or too many files in the conversation.

Images

Bravo can inspect images and answer questions about what they show. It can also help with image edits. Bravo can also create images and infographics from a description or the page you're viewing. For exact edits, ask for precise transformations such as cropping, resizing, rotating, adding a border or overlay, recoloring, or converting formats. For changes to the image itself, describe what you want, such as a different object, background, or style. If you want a particular size, a file format, a transparent background for logos and overlays, or extra detail in the result, say that in the request.

Sources

When Bravo uses webpages, files, emails, calendar events, Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox files, or past chats to answer, it cites them: small source icons appear next to the claims they support, and a source count appears with the buttons under the reply. Hover a citation to preview the source, or click it to open the original item and check where the answer came from: a past chat opens at the cited message, and a file from another chat opens the conversation where it was attached or created; a file cited in the chat you're viewing downloads directly.

Clicking a source that's a webpage, or any web link in a reply, opens it in its own tab — jumping to that tab if it's already open, or opening a new one — with the sidebar there showing the same chat.

Sources are most useful when Bravo summarizes, compares, or answers from information outside the current chat. For important decisions, open the sources and verify the details yourself.

See sources on a reply.

Quick replies

When Bravo needs you to choose before it can continue, it may show clickable quick replies at the end of a message. Pick one option, choose several when offered, or add your own answer when the choice allows it. Clicking a quick reply sends that choice as your next message, the same as if you had typed it. You can also ignore the buttons and type a reply.

See quick replies.

In some cases, Bravo also includes an Other option. Select it to type a custom answer below the choices, then send that text as your reply.

See the Other option.

Cancelled or errored replies

If a reply is cancelled or errors after partial work, Bravo may preserve the partial text in the chat. If Continue appears, clicking it picks up where the reply stopped, including when something broke on our end. If Retry appears, clicking it answers your original request from the beginning. If a message never reaches Bravo, your text and any attachments come back to the composer so you can send them again. If Bravo can't take a message at all, it stays in the chat as a greyed-out bubble marked not sent, with the reply "Try rephrasing. I can't handle unsafe or copyrighted content."

Tip: If you notice Bravo heading in the wrong direction, stop the response and send your correction as the next message. Bravo keeps the stopped turn in context so it can continue from the useful parts instead of starting cold.

Copying text

Short snippets meant to be reused on their own, such as a search query or email subject, are underlined. Click or tap one to copy just that text. Longer drafts appear in a bordered block with their own copy button.

Every reply from Bravo has small buttons just below it:

  • Copy: copies the reply (with formatting) to your clipboard so you can paste it into another app.
  • Flag: opens a short “What went wrong?” box so you can tell us a reply was bad. Notes go straight to the team. See Reporting bugs for other ways to reach us.
  • Details (ⓘ): opens a small menu showing when the message was sent, how long Bravo worked on it, credits used, and which AI model answered. See Choosing a model for more. Hold Option on Mac, or Alt on Windows/Linux, while clicking to see technical information about the response.
  • Sources: shows how many sources the reply used, and appears only when it used any. Click it to see the list and open any source. See Sources for more.

Sharing a chat

Click Share in the top corner while viewing a conversation, or choose it from the chat menu in the Chrome extension sidebar. Bravo copies a link and confirms with “Share link copied.” Hold Command (Ctrl on Windows) or Shift while clicking Share to also open the link in a new tab. Anyone with that link can read the chat, with no Bravo account needed.

The shared page is a frozen copy. It never picks up new messages. It shows:

  • The chat title, either the one Bravo wrote or the name you gave it when renaming a chat.
  • Your name, as shown on your account.
  • The date you shared it.
  • The date and time of the first message of each day, in your timezone as of when you shared.
  • The model that answered the last message in the chat.
  • The conversation up to the moment you shared it. If you stopped a reply or it failed, your question still shows but the unfinished answer does not.
  • The titles of the sources Bravo cited. That includes private email subject lines, calendar event names, and the names of private Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox files. Emails also show who sent them, by name or by email address when there is no name, and the date they were sent. Calendar events show their date and time, and earlier chats show their date. Web sources link to the page, and Drive and OneDrive files link to the file, which opens only for people who already have access to it. Everything else is a title only and does not link anywhere.
  • Files you uploaded to the chat, and files and images Bravo made for you. Images appear on the page. Other files can be downloaded. Files over 25 MB show their name only.
  • When you asked about a page, a link to that page and any text you selected on it.

It does not show:

  • Messages you send after sharing.
  • Email bodies. Only the subject and sender appear, along with whatever Bravo said about the email in the chat.
  • Calendar event descriptions. Only the event name and its date and time appear.
  • Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox file contents. Only the file name appears.
  • The contents of anything else Bravo read from a connected app. Only its title appears.
  • Your email address.
  • Which model answered earlier messages, or what the chat cost.
  • Sources Bravo looked at but did not cite.
  • Anything else from your account, like your memory, Topics, or other chats.

Tip: Not sure what you are about to share? Open the link yourself first. What you see is exactly what anyone with the link will see. If you change your mind, delete the link from Your Data settings.

Sharing the same chat again after new messages creates a second link that includes them. Sharing again with nothing new copies the link you already have.

Your links are listed under Shared links in Your Data settings, with the chat title and when you shared it, and you can open or delete each one there. Deleting a link stops it from working within about a minute. For a few seconds after you delete a link, an Undo button appears, and undo brings the same link back. After that, see Recovering a deleted item.