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The Edge · Workshop
Today's session

You've never hired an AI before.
That's the gap this closes.

Most people pick one AI and use it for everything. That's the wrong frame. It's like hiring one person to write your emails, fact-check vendor claims, design your slides, and review your contracts. They might be good at one of those. They are not good at all four. The skill nobody has yet is knowing who to put on which job.

In about five minutes

You'll know who's on the team, what each one is actually good at, and which of them is worth $20 a month to you.

First, the criteria

Four things separate one hire
from another.

Most everything else is marketing. Hold these loosely. You'll see them again on the candidate cards.

Accuracy
How often it gets things right.And whether it'll say "I don't know" instead of making something up.
Speed
How fast useful output lands.Real speed is time-to-correct-answer, not raw words per second.
Context
How much it can read at once and still keep the thread.Matters the moment you drop in a long contract or a year of email.
Cost
What you pay per useful answer.Headline price is $20 a month. The honest unit is dollars per task you didn't have to redo.
The candidates

Four hires.
Four very different specialties.

Tap any card to read the file. Real strengths, real weak spots. No spec sheets.

"Hand me the messy email. I'll get the tone right."

+AccuracyLowest hallucination rate of the four on writing and reasoning. Will say "I don't know" before guessing.
+ContextReads a 60-page contract and still tracks the clause buried on page 41.
+SpeedSteady, not flashy. Closer to a careful colleague than a sprinter.
LimitsNo native image generation. No voice mode. Search exists but feels bolted on.

"What do you need? I can probably do it."

+SpeedFastest of the four for everyday work. Voice mode lets you talk while doing something else.
+RangeBroadest skill set on the team. Writing, brainstorming, voice, image generation, custom tools. The Swiss Army knife.
+VisualsNative image generation. The newest version handles text inside images well. Useful for posts, slides, mockups.
AccuracyDefaults to surface-level. Bullet-points everything. You have to push it for depth.
CostFree tier now has ads. Plus is $20.

"Don't take my word for it. Here are the sources."

+AccuracyCitations on every claim. Every answer links back to where it came from. You can verify before you forward it.
+SpeedFast for research. Pulls live from the web. Best on the team for anything time-sensitive.
+HonestyWill tell you it doesn't know rather than make something up.
VoiceOutput is functional, not polished. Don't use it for anything that needs a voice.
TrustRecently caught downgrading paid users to cheaper models without telling them.

"I'm already inside your Gmail. Just tell me what you need."

+ContextLargest context window on the team. Drop in a year of email or a 200-page report. It holds it all.
+RangeHandles video and audio natively. Upload a recording and ask questions about it. No one else does this out of the box.
+CostLives inside Google Workspace. If you live in Gmail, Docs, and Sheets, the integration is the value.
VoiceWriting is competent, not great. Use it for analysis and data, not tone-driven prose.
LimitsBest inside Google's ecosystem. Outside it, the experience gets awkward.
The hiring
0 of 4

Four jobs.
Pick the right hire.

No revealed answers until you've assigned all four. Trust your gut.

Job 01Tone

"Draft a difficult email to a client telling them we'll miss the deadline by a week."

Job 02Verify

"Fact-check a competitor's pricing claim before I cite it in a proposal tomorrow."

Job 03Long Doc

"Summarize this 40-page vendor contract and flag anything unusual."

Job 04Visual

"Make a quick image for a LinkedIn post about my new service offering."

0 of 4 hired
Session debrief

You hired a team.
Now you have one.

Tape this to your monitor

Match the candidate to the job.
Don't pick one for everything.

On paying any of them

Each one has a $20 plan, with higher tiers above that. Mostly it buys a smarter model, more messages, and better tools. The free tiers exist so you can test them side by side. Pick the one closest to your week, run it for a month, then try the others on the side.

A note on the team

This roster will look different in six months. Models keep getting better, and the gaps between them keep shrinking. For most everyday work, all four are good enough. The smart move is knowing the differences, not chasing whoever's in the lead that week.

Next week Once you've picked your team, the next question matters just as much. The differences within a single provider.