> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.depost.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How chat works > Chat is where most work in Depost AI starts — ideas, drafts, analysis, plans, and visuals all come out of the same conversation. Chat is the main surface in Depost AI. Rather than a set of separate tools, you ask for what you want and Depost AI works out what to do — analyze your posts, generate ideas, write a draft, build a plan, or make a visual. It's built for going back and forth. You shape an idea, refine the angle, and keep related work together, instead of getting one output and starting over. ## Starting a chat Click **New chat** in the sidebar. You'll land on **What are we creating today?** with a message box and a row of starters. A new chat in Depost AI, showing the message box and the starter prompts beneath it Best used with a topic added — on its own it offers ideas to choose from rather than a draft. See [Create a post](/chat/create-post). Ideas grounded in your brand and history, not generic prompts. A weekly plan you can turn into scheduled posts. A read on your own content before you write anything new. Two more sit alongside them: **Interview me** is worth knowing about separately. Instead of you describing what you want, Depost AI asks you questions and builds the idea from your answers. It's the best starter when you know you should post but don't know what about. **Open editor** isn't a prompt at all — it skips chat and takes you straight to a blank editor. Use it when you already know what you're writing. The starters are shortcuts, not limits. Typing your own request in the message box works the same way. ## This week's ideas Below the composer, a card cycles through five post ideas prepared for you — generated when your brand was first analyzed, and refreshed weekly. Each shows a title and the angle it takes, such as *Proof / Case Study*. A card below the chat composer showing a suggested post idea titled as a case study, with dots indicating five ideas in rotation * **Hover** to pause the rotation while you read * **Click a card, or a dot**, to stop it cycling and jump to that idea * Clicking a card **fills the message box** with it, so you can edit the wording before sending rather than committing to it as written These are the cheapest ideas in the product to act on — they're already waiting when you open a new chat. If none of the five appeal, ask for [your own](/chat/ideas) instead. ## What you can ask for You don't need to learn a menu. Ask in your own words and Depost AI picks the right action. Broadly, it can: Audit your profile, review recent or best-performing posts, find content gaps, study your voice patterns, or explain what your performance data means. See [Analyze your content](/chat/analyze), or [Find what's trending](/chat/trends) for the outward-facing half. Post ideas, fresh or contrarian angles, and concepts for lead magnets, carousels, and infographics. See [Get ideas and angles](/chat/ideas). Full posts, hooks, CTAs, pinned comments, post series, video scripts, lead magnet outlines, carousel and infographic content. Turn a post into a carousel, an infographic, a lead magnet, or a video script — and back the other way. One idea can become a pack of several formats at once. Rewrite, sharpen the hook, strengthen the CTA, improve readability or structure, humanize, shorten, add proof, apply your brand voice, change tone, or make it less salesy. Weekly and monthly plans, launch campaigns, lead magnet promotion — plus reviewing and updating the strategy profile that shapes everything else. ## From chat to a post When a draft is close, move it into the editor rather than re-prompting the chat repeatedly. The editor is where you format, add media, get review, and schedule. A chat can also stay attached to a post. When it is, a set of one-click actions appears above the message box — rewrite, sharpen, improve the hook, and so on — so you can keep refining without typing the instruction each time. Give the outcome, not just the topic. "Write about hiring" produces something generic. "Write a post for early-stage founders about why our first three hires failed, ending with a question" produces something usable. ## Related Choose which of your material Depost AI draws on — and see what it always uses. Bring files, library documents, and spoken notes into a chat. Favorites, campaigns, archiving, and finding old threads. Take a draft through editing, review, and publishing.