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.
Answer when the assistant asks
Sometimes the assistant needs an answer before it can go on — most often which customer you mean. A small field then appears right above the message field, titled Choose customer. You answer right where you are; the conversation stays behind it.
For a customer you search in that same field: Search customers and Brreg. Below the search sit the Saved customers you already have, and hits from the Brønnøysund Register Centre when you type a company name or an organization number. One tap on the right customer, and the answer is given and the assistant carries on. For a private person you can tap "Use … as a private customer" straight from the hit.
When you tap the search or open a step, the field moves in front of the conversation. If you'd started a message, it moves to a row of its own — Write a message — so you don't lose what you'd written. Escape, Minimize or answering hands the conversation back, and the draft is kept.
If you find no customer, you create one on the spot with New customer — it sits in the same row as the search:
- Type the company name or organization number in the search, and pick the hit under Brønnøysund Register Centre.
- A card opens — Check the details from Brønnøysund — with the name and address fetched from there. If something is off, tap Change and correct it.
- E-mail and phone are optional: "Only needed once something is sent to the customer."
- Tap Create and use. The customer is saved and used in the answer right away.
If the customer is a private person or has no organization number, pick Private person instead of Company and fill in the name yourself. However you answer, a message you'd started is left untouched until you send it.
See what changes while you watch
Sometimes the assistant changes something you have open in front of you — a line item in a quote, say. The cells that changed light up for a couple of seconds, so your eye catches what got touched. The lines above tell you what the assistant is doing; this shows you what changed on the screen. The light fades on its own — you don't have to do anything with it.
The same happens when a colleague changes something from another device while you have it open: the change comes in and marks itself, instead of swapping the number out quietly.
With a line item open, the assistant knows that's the one you're working on. So you can point at it in plain words — "make this one cheaper", "change the quantity here" — and it understands you mean the item on the screen.
Open a new line with New item and leave it empty, and it's discarded when you close it — you're not left with a blank row in the quote. But if the assistant managed to write something into it while it was open, that stays.
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.
- Tap Views in the rail.
- Choose the view you want — Invoices, say.
- It opens in the panel beside the conversation. Need the room back? Tap Workspaces by the message field to put the panel away — and bring it back in the same spot when you need it. If you've put something away, the count sits on the button.
In the catalogue the views are grouped by where they belong — Sales, Bookkeeping and Reports, with Panels alongside. Each group shows the ones you use most first; More unfolds the rest in place — and names what it hides, so you see what's there before you open it — while Fewer folds them back. Anything you've starred sits as tiles under Your views right at the top, and each tile shows where the view lives (for example "Bookkeeping · Outgoing"). Tap the star on a view to Bookmark this view — it pins up there — 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.
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