An AI research assistant that delivers your weekly report

An AI research assistant in Biilda researches a topic you name, reads your own documents and writes the result up as a short report, on a schedule if you want one. You read the report, check what matters, and decide. The compiling is done for you.

Biilda is a free desktop app for Windows and macOS. You describe the report in chat, approve the plan it proposes, and it builds an AI employee (Biilda's word for an AI agent with a job) and a scheduled task that delivers the result.

What can an AI research assistant take off your plate?

Research and reporting are the jobs people put off. Nobody wakes up eager to compile a weekly summary. Both jobs are well defined, they repeat, and the output is something you can check, which makes them a good first thing to delegate.

For a regular report, describe the structure once: the sections, what to put at the top, where the information lives. A scheduled task then produces it the same way every week, so you can scan it quickly. For a briefing, the same idea applies every morning, built from your inbox and notes.

For one-off questions, ask for a research brief. A good brief has the headline first, the detail after and the uncertain parts marked, so you know where to look twice. If you already keep contracts, proposals, past reports or spreadsheets in a folder, grant that folder and an employee can summarize each document and build one combined list of deadlines and action items.

When several people need the result, a delivery task can post it to a Slack channel, so the report reaches them without you forwarding it.

A word of caution: treat a first report as a draft. Spot-check any figure you will act on and ask the employee where each key point came from. It is a fast, tireless junior researcher, and you supply the judgment.

How does it work in Biilda?

1. Describe it. "Every Friday, read the documents in my Reports folder and write a one-page summary with deadlines on top."
2. Approve the plan. You see what Biilda will build before it builds it.
3. It builds. The employee, its skills and the schedule are created.
4. Switch it on. New tasks and employees start disabled until you enable them.
5. Approve outward actions. Delivering a report to Slack or email asks for sign-off by default.

You choose a quality level for each task: Economy, Balanced or Best. A weekly summary may not need the most expensive one, while a report that feeds a big decision might.

What stays private?

Your documents stay on your computer. Biilda reads files only inside folders you grant through the operating system's picker, the AI cannot grant itself access, and you can revoke a folder at any time. Text in documents is treated as data, never as instructions. To write the report, the content being summarized is processed by the AI service behind Biilda for that task.

What does it cost?

Biilda is free to download and has no subscription. You buy credits in US dollars from $20 and pay only for what each task uses. The pricing page lists researching a topic and summarizing it into a report at a handful of credits, and having an employee read through a folder of documents at a few credits per document. You set a spend cap, and watch the running cost while a task works. Scheduled tasks run while the Biilda app is running.

What does it not do?

An AI research assistant can be confidently wrong, especially about specific figures and dates, so it is not a source of record. Biilda also does not connect to analytics, finance or CRM platforms, so a report is built from what you point it at: your documents, your notes, your question. That keeps the output checkable, which is the point.

How do you start in 30 minutes?

1. Download Biilda and open it.
2. Pick one report you write or wish you wrote, and sketch its sections.
3. Describe it in chat and accept the plan.
4. Grant the folder, or connect Gmail, when Biilda asks.
5. Run it once and read the result critically.
6. Fix the structure through chat, then schedule it at a rhythm that matches the decision it feeds.

A weekly report should run weekly. More often just adds noise.