Talk to the assistant

When you open Tredco, you don't land in a menu — you land in a conversation. The home screen is a chat with the assistant, and most of what you do starts with saying what you want. You type or speak in plain words, and the assistant does the work and presents its proposal for your approval.

Say it in your own words

The message field at the bottom is where you start. It says Type a message... — type what you need, exactly as you'd say it to a colleague: "I've got a receipt from Byggmax", "help me invoice Hansen for the Storgata job", "how are we doing this month?".

Once you've saved a prompt of your own, the text changes to Type a message... or / for prompts — more on that below.

Speak instead of type

Hands full, or faster to say than to type? Speak. By the message field sits the microphone — Record dictation. Tap it and the field turns into a recording: a red dot blinks, you see the sound move as you talk, and the timer counts up. Finish talking and tap the green check — Stop recording. The assistant turns what you said into text and drops it in the field, so you can read it over and fix it before you send. Change your mind partway? Tap the cross — Cancel dictation — and the recording disappears without leaving anything behind.

Rather have a proper conversation, without typing at all? Use voice mode. When the message field is empty, the Open voice mode button sits next to the microphone. Then you talk to the assistant like a colleague on the phone: you say what you want, it answers out loud. Along the way you can silence yourself with Mute and turn it back on with Unmute, and you end with End.

Attach photos and files

A photo of the membrane, the receipt from the builders' merchant or the bank statement lands in the right place by itself; you don't have to say where it belongs. You can always drag a file straight into the conversation, or paste it in.

On the phone you take the photo on the spot: tap the camera by the message field — Camera — and shoot. Already have the photo, or want to bring in a file? Tap the small button in the camera's corner — Attach file. Your phone's own picker opens straight away, the one you already know: take a new photo, pull one from the photo library, or choose a file like a PDF or bank statement. No extra menu in between.

On a computer it's the paperclip — Files — next to the message field that opens your files, on top of drag-and-drop or paste.

You can attach a video clip too — a short film of the damage, the leak or the progress on the job. Attach it the same way as a photo, and the clip shows up in the conversation as a card you can play right there, without downloading it first.

See what the assistant is doing

When the assistant gets going, it works step by step, and you see each step as it happens. A line appears for every step: a small spinner while it's working, and a green check when the step is done.

The lines say what the assistant is doing, and what it's doing it to: "Searching customers: Da Vinci Aasen", "Fetching bank balance", "Creating invoice draft". So you can see it's under way, and what it's working on. If it does the same thing several times in a row, the lines collapse into one instead of a long stack of identical rows.

You don't have to do anything with these lines. They're there so you can follow along, and so you can see that the proposal you get in the end is built on something the assistant actually pulled up.

Pull up the views you use most

On a computer the navigation lives in the rail on the left. At the top you can always get back to Home. Below it sit Views, New chat and Payment queue, and at the bottom the list of your chats.

Tap Views to open the catalogue of what you can pull up — views like Invoices, Calendar, Quotes, Customers, Templates and Stats. Pick one and it fills the panel beside the conversation.

In the catalogue you'll see Your views at the top and every Panels below. Tap the star on a view to Bookmark this view — it pins to the top — and Remove bookmark when you no longer need the shortcut.

On the phone the same shortcuts sit as a row at the bottom, just above the message field — one tap brings the view up.

Save messages you write often

Got a message you write over and over — a monthly payroll check, a recurring report? Save it as a prompt. In the top-right corner of the message field is the Prompt library. Tap it, choose New prompt, and give it a title and some text. If you've already typed something in the field, New prompt keeps it for you.

Next time you pull the prompt up in one of two ways: open the library and pick it from the list, or type / at the start of the message field and let the list appear as you type. Up and down arrows move the highlight, Enter inserts the prompt, and Escape closes the list without touching what you've written. From the library you can also Edit library prompt or Delete library prompt.

Keep order with chats

Every conversation becomes a chat in the list on the left, under Chats. Starting something new, you tap New chat; working inside a project, it becomes a new chat tied to that project. You can always tap your way back to Home.

If a chat keeps coming back, pin it to the top with Pin chat from the action menu on the chat row — and Unpin chat when it no longer needs to sit there. Want a name that's easier to recognize than the automatic one? Choose Rename chat and write your own.

Archive what's finished

The list fills up fast with one-off conversations you're done with. Now you can tidy without losing anything: open the action menu on the chat row and choose Archive chat. The chat leaves the active list and settles into the Archive section at the bottom — still there, just out of the way.

Need an archived chat again? Open Archive and tap Restore chat. And if you write a new message in an archived conversation, it wakes up by itself and moves back to the active list.

The archive is shared across the company: archive a chat, and it leaves the list for everyone on the crew — so it's a way to keep things tidy for the whole team, not just for yourself.

Want to know more about what the assistant actually posts for you? See invoicing and bookkeeping. Not started yet? Begin with getting started.