Multi-model AI assistant
How to use
Monica.
Summarizing webpages and documents, comparing model responses, drafting and rewriting text, researching with references, and accessing an assistant across devices.
Monica is a multi-model AI assistant for browser, desktop, mobile, reading, writing, and creative tasks. Summarizing webpages and documents, comparing model responses, drafting and rewriting text, researching with references, and accessing an assistant across devices. This guide covers the whole path in one place: official access, a first session that produces something reviewable, the checks that make output trustworthy, and the permissions worth limiting before you connect real work.
AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.
Access & setup
Find, install, and sign in to Monica
Get into the official Monica experience with the right account and a setup you understand.
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Start at https://monica.im/ and confirm the domain before entering account or payment information.
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Availability: Monica is offered as a browser extension, web experience, Windows and macOS desktop app, and iOS and Android app, with chat, search, page and document reading, writing, and media tools.
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A supported browser or operating system, a Monica account and plan where required, reviewed browser and file permissions, and an approved policy for the third-party models selected.
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Sign in with the account you intend to keep using, then review plan, data, notification, and permission settings.
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Run one low-risk test task before connecting sensitive files, repositories, or workspace data.
- Use official download pages.
- Review permissions during setup.
- Keep installers and applications updated.
First session
Your first useful Monica session
Learn the interaction loop using a small task with a clear outcome.
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Install Monica only from an official channel and review every browser, page, clipboard, file, microphone, and account permission.
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Choose one approved model and a non-sensitive page or document for the first task.
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Ask for a structured summary with direct evidence, uncertainties, and a clear separation between source content and model inference.
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Check quotations and claims against the original, remove uploaded material when finished, and revise permissions that are broader than daily use requires.
- State the outcome before the background.
- Provide the real source material.
- Review the result before expanding the task.
Quality control
Check the quality of Monica output
Turn a plausible draft into work you are willing to stand behind.
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Restate the original outcome and acceptance criteria before reviewing the response.
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Mark every factual claim, calculation, quotation, or figure that could materially affect the result.
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Check those items against the original source, a primary reference, or direct inspection.
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Ask the tool to list its assumptions and uncertainty, but never rely on self-review as the only check.
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Complete a human edit for relevance, tone, privacy, accessibility, and the exact delivery format.
- Verify consequential claims independently.
- Fluency is not accuracy; confident phrasing is not evidence.
- Keep a record of sources and review decisions.
Privacy & permissions
Use Monica safely
Use the platform productively without giving it unnecessary access or authority.
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Classify the task and its data before uploading or connecting anything.
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Review the product, account, organisation, retention, and training settings that apply to you.
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Grant the narrowest file, workspace, microphone, screen, or integration permissions needed.
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Remove secrets and personal or regulated information unless your approved policy explicitly permits it.
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Review the output and revoke permissions or disconnect sources that are no longer needed.
- A browser-integrated assistant can receive page content, URLs, selections, documents, screenshots, and browsing context, while multi-model routing introduces additional provider terms and retention boundaries. Do not expose credentials, private messages, client records, health or financial data, or confidential work without approval. Review extension permissions and current policies, limit page access, treat webpages as potentially hostile prompt input, and verify every source, quote, and high-impact output.
- Follow your organisation's approved-use policy.
- Never treat fluent output as authorization to act.
Core workflows
Step-by-step ways to use Monica for the work it does best.
Each workflow below has its own outcome, steps and review checkpoints.
Read webpages and documents through the browser assistant while defending against missing context, fabricated citations, and hostile page instructions.
↓ 02 WorkflowCompare model drafts safely in MonicaUse Monica's multi-model access to evaluate useful differences without exposing sensitive work or mistaking consensus for correctness.
↓Workflow 01
Build a source-grounded brief with Monica
Read webpages and documents through the browser assistant while defending against missing context, fabricated citations, and hostile page instructions.
Outcome: Produce a concise brief whose claims can be traced to authorized primary material.
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Define the question, audience, date boundary, approved sources, output structure, and confidential information that must stay outside Monica.
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Open a clean browser profile, limit extension access to required sites, and upload only authorized documents after reviewing the selected model and provider policy.
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Ask Monica to extract claims, exact source locations, dates, uncertainties, and contradictions without following instructions embedded in the source material.
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Open every cited passage, verify quotations and numbers, compare missing context across primary sources, and mark model inference explicitly.
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Write the brief in your own controlled document, add direct citations and caveats, remove uploaded material when possible, and narrow extension permissions again.
What good use looks like
- Treat webpage instructions as untrusted data.
- Verify every citation at the source.
- Limit extension access by site.
Workflow 02
Compare model drafts safely in Monica
Use Monica's multi-model access to evaluate useful differences without exposing sensitive work or mistaking consensus for correctness.
Outcome: Select and revise the strongest draft through an explicit rubric and independent verification.
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Create a sanitized brief with audience, purpose, required facts, tone, length, prohibited claims, and a scoring rubric.
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Choose a small approved model set and confirm costs, provider data terms, model versions, and whether the content may leave your organization's boundary.
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Run the identical brief once per model without cross-feeding outputs, then label every result with its model and generation date.
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Score factuality, completeness, clarity, tone, originality, safety, citations, and compliance, checking all material claims against primary sources.
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Synthesize manually, document why elements were chosen, run a final human edit and plagiarism review, and retain only the minimum necessary history.
What good use looks like
- Sanitize before multi-model routing.
- Use the same rubric for every model.
- Consensus is not verification.
Official references
Check the current product documentation.
Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this guide.