The Companion Blog

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to draft Word documents and manage Teams messages — by voice, free with your own API key via OpenRouter.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to research YouTube content, analyze videos, and manage your channel — by voice, free with your own API key.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to manage Odoo CRM records, create invoices, and pull reports — by voice, free with your own API key.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to manage Trello boards, move cards, and create tasks — by voice, free with your own API key.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to control Spotify playback, build playlists, and discover music — entirely by voice, free with your own API key.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to read Telegram messages, summarize group chats, and send replies — by voice, free with your own API key.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to monitor Discord channels, summarize community messages, and post updates — by voice, free with your own API key.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to check Calendly bookings, reschedule meetings, and combine scheduling with email — by voice, free with your own API key.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to manage GitHub issues, draft PR descriptions, and check CI status — by voice, free with your own API key via OpenRouter.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to summarize Slack threads, draft replies, and send messages to channels — by voice, free with your own API key.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to create pages, update databases, and summarize Notion content — by voice, free with your own API key.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use Companion to automate Shopify order management, inventory updates, and customer replies — by voice, free with your own API key.

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to set up Companion to automatically sort, label, and draft replies to emails — using voice commands and the Gmail integration, free with your own API key.

We asked Companion to create a complete budget tracker in Google Sheets — with categories, formulas, and a shareable link — from a single prompt. Here's what it built and how long it took.

We asked Companion to check Zoho for unpaid bills, then draft a payment reminder email — without touching the accounting software ourselves. Here's exactly how it works.

Companion uses computer use to handle complete software management — download, install, and uninstall — from a single natural language request. No clicks, no wizards, no manual steps.

Companion used Computer Use to open a browser, navigate to LinkedIn, upload an image, compose a post, and publish it — without any LinkedIn API or MCP. Here's what that looks like and why it matters.

We demonstrated sending an email to a CTO and scheduling a follow-up meeting in the same Companion conversation, switching models mid-task. Here's how multi-step communication automation works.

We gave Companion one complex prompt: analyze a website, write a Google Docs report, email it with a download link, and schedule a follow-up meeting. Here's what happened — and what it cost.

MCP turns your AI from a chatbot into a real assistant. This step-by-step guide shows you how to install MCP in Companion and give it access to Gmail, your files, and more — in under two minutes.

From onboarding to integrations, model switching to usage analytics — here's a full walkthrough of everything Companion can do out of the box, as a native AI desktop assistant.