Many users use ChatGPT and Claude to examine papers, including essays, reports, contracts, and resumes. They can provide really helpful insights, but when it comes to iterating together, they’re not so powerful. Feedback comes back as a large chat response, and you are then left to apply changes yourself or accept a completely rewritten version from the chatbot.
There’s a new tool called Revise that aims to improve this workflow by integrating AI chat directly into a full word processor that’s compatible with Word .docx files, not just the basic text box a lot of AI writing apps give you. In Revise, the huge language model may read, modify, and comment on any section of your work using the same interface as you. Revise allows you to import big documents (up to a hundred pages), and the model may sift through them and read only the portions it wants rather than importing the entire thing at once. You can request changes and discuss portions of the document in comment threads.
You Stay in Control
Revise lets you keep full control over your document. Its track changes support means everything the AI agent does is visualized for you as a suggested change and can be individually accepted or rejected.
The amount of editing the agent does on your work is totally up to you and your prompts, and if you prefer, you can simply have the agent mark up your document with comments so that you may amend it yourself. Regardless of the strategy you select, having the AI agent interact with you on the same page in the same interface allows for far faster iteration and more friendly editing than going back and forth with a chatbot.
Works With Your Files, and It’s Free to Try
Getting your documents in and out is easy too. Revise supports importing Word files with full headers, tables, pictures, and footnotes, as well as PDFs. It imports PDFs with the use of multimodal LLMs that look at the pages and extract the text. That means, instead of a picture of text that you can’t modify, scanned documents and image-based PDFs display as real, editable text. When you’re ready, Revise may export to Word or PDF so it fits right into your current procedure.
Revise is more accessible and flexible than Google Docs and Microsoft Word, neither of which lets you change which AI model you’re talking to, and both of which require a monthly subscription to even try their AI chat feature. Revise, on the other hand, has a permanent free tier with a daily limit, plus free usage via MCP through its plugins in the ChatGPT and Claude directories.
If you already use AI to review your documents, Revise is worth a try. You can import a document, ask for feedback, and decide change by change what actually makes it into your work.