Ask an employee for a spreadsheet, a report, a slide deck, or a data export, and get back a real .xlsx, .docx, .pptx, .csv, or .pdf file, not a wall of text pasted into chat. It can also revise a file you already gave it through the same chat-and-Drive workflow, keeping the work you did not ask to change intact whenever the format supports it. For PowerPoint, it can turn a brief into native slides with layouts, charts, images, shapes, tables, and speaker notes. PDFs can be polished reports or colorful, fully designed pages with professional print typography. Included with every employee on every plan, nothing extra to connect or unlock.
Most chat tools hand back a document as a block of text you copy, paste, and reformat yourself. This one hands back the actual file. Ask for a budget and get an .xlsx with real formulas and number formatting. Ask for a proposal and get a .docx. Ask for a deck and get a .pptx. Ask for a report to send someone outside the company and get a .pdf.
It edits as well as creates. Hand an employee an existing spreadsheet, document, presentation, CSV, or PDF and name the change. Native formats preserve their structure wherever possible; PDFs stay PDFs, with a Sistava-created visual layout carried forward and another PDF regenerated from its readable content.
It's a built-in employee capability, not a separate app to open or connect, and not a document editor you open and type into yourself. You describe what you want in chat, "pull last month's numbers and send me an Excel breakdown", and the employee sends a structured description of the content, never code, to the tool that renders it. The finished file comes back in that same conversation, ready to download from the employee's Drive. If you want a live, click-and-type editing surface inside the app, this isn't that; it's a request-and-receive tool.
Every plan includes it, Free included. There's no upgrade wall on the file itself, the plan you're on only changes how much of the employee's time you can afford to spend generating one.
The output is an actual file in its native format: a spreadsheet with real formulas and cell formatting, a document with real headings and styles, a deck with real slides, not a markdown table you have to rebuild by hand.
Five formats are supported: Excel (.xlsx), Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), CSV (.csv), and PDF (.pdf). Every generated file lands in the employee's Drive next to whatever else it produced that day. The tool only ever returns a download link and a short summary, never the raw file content, so a large spreadsheet doesn't flood the conversation.
This ships with every employee automatically, the same way web search does. There's nothing to connect, no separate account, and no plan it's missing from, Free included.
It also edits files you already have. Give an employee a spreadsheet or document and ask for a change, and it edits that file directly instead of starting over, so the parts you didn't ask to change stay intact.
Create a file or upload one, then ask for a focused change in chat. The employee works from that source and returns the revision to Drive, so you can keep refining the same piece of work instead of describing it again from zero.
Document editing is available now for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, and PDF files. Saved social drafts use the same source-aware revision approach. Image and video editing are available through their generators with the same stable Drive-file workflow. Screenshots and meeting transcripts remain read-only records.
Describe the audience, goal, visual direction, slide count, and content, and the employee creates a native PowerPoint deck rather than a set of static images. It can combine reusable layouts and slide masters with text, tables, native charts, images, shapes, and speaker notes on the same deck.
You can refine the result in chat: ask for a stronger opening, a different colour treatment, a simpler chart, new slides for a specific audience, or a revised order. The result remains an editable .pptx that opens normally in PowerPoint.
An Excel file isn't just rows and columns. A cell value that starts with "=" becomes a live formula, so a budget can carry real SUM and multiplication formulas an employer can keep editing in Excel. Columns can get currency, percent, date, or thousands number formats, a locked dropdown list (for a status or stage column), merged header cells, and colored fills, and the header row is frozen with an autofilter added automatically.
A PDF can be plain flowing text with headings, bullets, and tables, or a fully designed one-pager built from branded panels, text, and imagery, the kind of layout used for a CV, brochure, campaign sheet, or branded report rather than a plain memo. The PDF print engine supports modern typography, print backgrounds, and right-to-left text without extra setup.
Edit works by exact-phrase replacement: you name the text to find and what to swap it for, and only that text changes. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files are edited in place, so every other paragraph, formula, formatting choice, and slide layout in the original stays untouched.
A PDF stays a PDF. For a PDF created in Sistava, the saved visual specification is carried forward for the revision. For another PDF, the tool reads its full accessible text, applies the requested change, and regenerates a PDF. It preserves the content but cannot promise a pixel-identical edit of an arbitrary uploaded layout.
PowerPoint decks go further than swapped bullet points: an employee can build named slide masters and layouts, embed native charts and shapes, add speaker notes per slide, and place multiple text, table, image, and chart objects on one slide, all rendered through a dedicated PowerPoint engine with a 30-second render limit per file.
The employee describes the document; fixed code renders the file
You ask for a document in plain language, in chat or as part of a task. The employee decides what needs to go into it (headings, tables, numbers, slides) and sends a structured description of that content, never code, to the Document Editor.
The tool matches the request to the right library for the format you asked for and renders the actual binary file. For an edit, it first opens the file you referenced (by upload, by a file already in your Drive, or by a file the employee created earlier), preserving the full original content, and only changes the specific text you asked to swap.
The finished file uploads to your private storage and is registered in your Drive, so it shows up as a normal asset with a download link, the same as anything else an employee produces for you.
Ask your employee to pull numbers together and it hands back a formatted .xlsx with a styled header, the right number formats for currency and percentages, live formulas where they belong, and a locked dropdown for a status column, ready to send or drop into your own workflow.
Describe what the document needs to cover and get back a structured Word document or a designed PDF with headings, tables, and bullet points already laid out, instead of retyping a chat answer into a template yourself.
Ask for a PowerPoint deck and your employee produces multiple slides with titles, bullet content, charts, and images placed on each one, using standard slide layouts or a branded master you can keep editing in PowerPoint.
Upload a contract, budget, or deck and ask for specific corrections. The tool opens the exact file, keeps everything else intact, and applies only the change you named, so you get a new version, not a blank rewrite.
Ask for a visually designed PDF, a CV, a pitch one-pager, a brochure, and the employee lays it out with a defined color theme, positioned text blocks, and badges instead of returning a plain text memo.
All of them, including Free. It's a built-in employee capability, not a paid unlock.
Excel (.xlsx), Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), CSV (.csv), and PDF (.pdf).
Yes. Give the employee the audience, goal, content, and visual direction. It can create editable slides with layouts, charts, tables, images, shapes, and speaker notes, then revise the deck from your feedback.
No. It's a built-in tool every employee already has, the same way web search is.
Yes. Hand it an existing spreadsheet, document, or presentation and name the exact text to change, and it edits that file directly, keeping the formatting and content you didn't ask to change.
Yes. A PDF created in Sistava keeps its saved visual specification when revised. Another uploaded PDF is regenerated as a PDF from its readable content, so the requested content change is retained but its original pixel-level layout cannot be guaranteed.
Yes. Any cell value that starts with "=" is written as a live Excel formula, so totals and calculations keep working when you edit the file yourself afterward.
No. You ask for a file or a change in chat, and the finished file comes back as a download from the employee's Drive. There's no in-app editing screen; the file itself opens in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, or a PDF reader like normal.
Yes. Ask an employee to pull data and export it as an Excel file, for example, and both the work and the file come back in the same conversation.
Document Editor is part of Things they can do out of the box.
Every AI employee ships with built-in abilities that work out of the box. Search the live web for real-time information, scrape and crawl any website for structured data, and generate images directly in conversation. No plugins to install, no APIs to configure.