What you can ask O

You can ask O in your own words, or start with a command from the / menu. Each section below lists what O can do, an example to copy, and the command if there is one. Swap the bracketed parts for your own, and type @ to pick the exact person, company or Circle. For tips on phrasing, see How to ask O.

People and companies

What you can do	Ask like this	Command
Find people in your network by role, company, skill, location, country, school, industry, language or certification	Find product leaders in Amsterdam who used to work at @[company].	`/people`
Find people by seniority, by whether they make decisions or manage a team, or by whether they’re open to work	Which senior decision-makers do I know in fintech?	`/people`
Find people by when you connected or how many connections they have	Who did I connect with this year?	`/people`
Look up one person	Tell me about @[person]: what they do now and what we have in common.	`/person`
Find companies by name or industry, by where they’re based, and sort them by size, growth, hiring or how many people you know there	Which fintech companies based in the Nordics do I know the most people at?	`/company`
Get a briefing on one company	Give me a briefing on @[company].	`/company-info`
See a company’s leaders, current team and former team	Who is on the leadership team at @[company], and who has left in the last year?
See confirmed changes of role or company among your contacts	Who in my network has changed role or company this month?

Your relationships

What you can do	Ask like this	Command
Find the best person to introduce you to someone	What is the best person to introduce me to @[person]?	`/intro`
Find people in your network who should meet each other	Which people in my network should meet each other? Look for skills that fit together.	`/matches`
Draft an introduction between two people	Draft an introduction between @[person] and @[person] about [purpose].	`/intro-draft`
Find people to get back in touch with	Who in my network should I reconnect with?
See your history with someone: emails, meetings, messages, notes and reminders	Show me my history with @[person].
See how much O can tell about your relationship with someone	How well do I know @[person], based on what you can see?
Find people who may know each other without you knowing	Who in my network might know each other?

How well you know someone is O’s reading of the evidence it has: shared employers, schools, skills, mutual connections, messages, emails, meetings, notes and how recent they are. It doesn’t measure trust, or whether someone would be willing to help.

Your messages, calendar, notes and documents

What you can do	Ask like this	Command
Search your email, calendar events and LinkedIn messages, by person, company or date	What did @[person] and I talk about in September?	`/content`
See what’s in your calendar, with whom	What meetings do I have next week, and with whom?
Search your notes about a person, company or topic	What have I written about @[company]?	`/note`
Add a note to a person or company	Add a note to @[person]: met at the summit, interested in a pilot.
Search the documents you’ve added	What does my document on pricing say about discounts?	`/memory`
Ask questions about a spreadsheet you’ve added: counts, totals, averages, filters and groups	In my spreadsheet of deals, how many are over 100,000, by country?	`/memory`
See which accounts you’ve connected	Which accounts have I connected?	`/list-integrations`

When O finds the right email or message, ask it to read the full text if you need the details.

Your network as a whole

What you can do	Ask like this	Command
Compare two or more people	Compare @[person] and @[person]: skills, experience and education.	`/compare`
See your network in groups, for example by industry, company, location, skills, school or seniority	Group my network by industry.	`/cluster`
See how your network has grown	How has my network grown each quarter?	`/growth`
See where people at a company came from, or where they went	Where do people who leave @[company] go next?
See what has changed in your network	What has changed in my network in the last two weeks?
Make a chart	Make a pie chart of my network by industry.	`/chart`
Draw a diagram, such as a timeline or an introduction path	Draw the path from me to @[person].
Turn an answer into a PDF report	Turn this answer into a PDF report.	`/export`
Find skills your network is missing	Which of these skills is my network missing: data, security, design?	`/skill-gap`
Find companies in your network that could suit someone	Which companies in my network would suit @[person]?
Check a list against your network	Attach a list of companies, then ask: Who do I know at each of these?

Circles

What you can do	Ask like this	Command
Add people to a Circle	Add these people to my Circle @[circle].	`/add-to-circle`
Create a Circle, see who’s in one, or remove someone	Create a Circle called [name] with the people above.

O shows you any change to a Circle first, and makes it only when you confirm.

Research and news

What you can do	Ask like this	Command
Do a quick search of the web	Search the web for @[company]‘s latest funding round.	`/websearch`
Research a person or company in depth	Research @[company]: funding, leadership and recent news.	`/research`
Get the news about a company or topic	What’s in the news about @[company] this week?	`/news`

O only searches the web when you ask it to.

Drafts, sending and reminders

What you can do	Ask like this	Command
Draft a LinkedIn message or an email to someone	Draft a short LinkedIn message to @[person] asking for 20 minutes.	`/outreach`
Send an email from your Google or Outlook account	Email @[person] to confirm Thursday at 10.
Send a WhatsApp message to someone you already have a WhatsApp chat with	Send @[person] a WhatsApp: running 10 minutes late.
Book a meeting in your calendar	Book 30 minutes with @[person] next Tuesday at 10.
Set a reminder, once or on repeat	Remind me to follow up with @[person] every Monday.	`/remind`
Keep an eye on a topic	Keep an eye on @[company]‘s launch.
Tailor your résumé to a job description	Tailor my résumé to this job description.	`/resume`

Nothing goes out without you. Before O sends an email or a WhatsApp message, or books a meeting, it shows you exactly what will go out and waits for you to confirm. Booking a meeting doesn’t check whether people are free. Keeping an eye on a topic needs Follow-up updates turned on; see Proactive follow-ups.

Good to know

O works with what you’ve connected and added. If an account isn’t connected, or a profile doesn’t list something, O can’t see it.
A missing detail is unknown, not false. Profiles and company details can be out of date.
One answer can only list so many people. If you need more, split the question.

How to ask O

Simple habits that get you better answers.

Ask O commands

Every command you can type with /.

The Ask O menu

Ready-made prompts for real situations.

Ask O

The message box, mentions, commands and history.

​People and companies

​Your relationships

​Your messages, calendar, notes and documents

​Your network as a whole

​Circles

​Research and news

​Drafts, sending and reminders

​Good to know

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How to ask O

Ask O commands

The Ask O menu

Ask O

People and companies

Your relationships

Your messages, calendar, notes and documents

Your network as a whole

Circles

Research and news

Drafts, sending and reminders

Good to know

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