Guidance
Best Practices & Limits
How to get the most out of Olympus — and a clear-eyed look at what it can and can't do, by design and today.
Best practices
- Work inside a Project for anything with more than a handful of documents.
- Pick the right Being: research → Watson · contracts → Jeeves · evidence → Holmes · strategy → Athena.
- Let it cite, then verify.Click through to the source for anything you'll rely on.
- Use Tabular Reviewfor “the same question across many files.”
- Turn repeat work into a Workflow and share it with your team.
- Ask for a Word document explicitly when you want a downloadable draft or redline.
- Use hand-offs — let the legal trio pass a thread between lenses instead of starting over.
- Mind the limits: ≤ 30 MB per file, supported types only, ≤ 10 attachments per standalone message.
What it can do
- Read PDF, DOCX, DOC, XLSX, and PPTX files (up to 30 MB each).
- Ground answers with verifiable citations.
- Generate downloadable Word documents and tracked-changes redlines.
- Extract structured data across many documents and export to Excel.
- Run recurring jobs from reusable, shareable Workflows.
- Offer four specialist Beings with distinct strengths and hand-offs.
- Keep version history and searchable chat history.
What it can't do (by design / today)
- It isn't a lawyer.Olympus supports professional judgment; it doesn't replace it.
- Standalone chats cap at 10 attachments per message — for bigger sets, use a Project.
- Files must be ≤ 30 MB and a supported type.
- No “bring your own model” key — model choice is managed by the platform.
- Access is gated. Sign-up requires an approved / allow-listed email.
For confidentiality and data handling, see Security & Data.