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Twelve things Flow can do to your words, each waiting for your yes

Twelve actions on your words, from proofread, summarize and translate to tables, charts, sign-offs and forms. Each waits for your yes.

How it works ↓

Agency1 of 12

Proofread

Fixes spelling, grammar and punctuation; shows every change

What it needs
Text in the Editor
In this walk
Nothing to change in 9 s

A blue banner over the plan: Nothing to change. The text was checked and reads correctly as written. Claude Code. The selected paragraph stays highlighted

On a clean paragraph Proofread says so: Nothing to change. The text was checked and reads correctly as written. No review opens, because there is nothing to keep. When it does find something, every change is shown against the original in Review Changes.

Agency2 of 12

Summarize

Condenses the text to its points

What it needs
Text
In this walk
Whole plan to one paragraph in 8 s, figure kept

Review Changes with the whole plan condensed into one highlighted paragraph above the kept figure; the Workbench reads Replace the document with a summary of it

With nothing selected, Summarize read the whole plan and proposed a one-paragraph version. It covers the firm, the close, the hours, the complaint. The figure in the plan was carried through untouched.

Agency3 of 12

Translate

Rewrites the text in another language

What it needs
Text, and a language from its menu
In this walk
Spanish in 8 s

The Translate card's menu: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Hindi, Arabic

Translate opens a menu of eleven languages under its card.

Review Changes with the paragraph in Spanish, highlighted: El trimestre pasado, el equipo registró 312 horas en cierres. The Workbench reads Translate the selected text into Spanish. 96 words added or removed; original: 46 words

The selected paragraph came back in Spanish, with every number intact. Review says how much changed: 96 words added or removed; original: 46 words.

Agency4 of 12

Convert Text to Table

Turns prose into a table

What it needs
Prose with rows in it, such as a list, in one place
In this walk
Four steps to a four-column table in 8 s

Review Changes with a table under Next steps: Step, Who, Action, When — 1 Dana, asks the five largest clients which option they would use, by 7 November; 2 Tomás, sets up the portal for two pilot clients, week of 10 November; 3 Priya, measures the chase hours, November close; 4 The team, decides and switches everyone over, 1 December and February

The four numbered next steps became a table with the columns the text implied: Step, Who, Action, When. On a paragraph with no rows in it, the card says Nothing to make a table from before you press it.

Agency7 of 12

Research Brief

Turns an idea into the brief a draft is written from

What it needs
An idea, a paragraph or two
In this walk
547-word brief in 48 s

Review Changes with a highlighted research brief: a working argument, the person's own words quoted, then a numbered scope for email, the client portal and Receiptly, and a side-by-side comparison to make

Research Brief took the three options for chasing receipts and wrote the brief a draft would be written from. It opens with a working argument and quotes the person’s own words. Then it lays out a scope for each option and the comparison to make. It compares new cost per quarter, setup time and hours of chase left. Review counts 547 words added; it took 48 seconds. Expand with Sources is the action that then writes the draft from those sources, citing each.

Agency8 of 12

Visualize

Proposes a chart or diagram from the selected text

What it needs
Text with numbers or steps
In this walk
Bar chart with 4 rows in 8 s

Review Changes with a bar chart: Reconciliation 140, Chasing receipts 96 in the accent colour, Drafting summaries 48, Review 28; the Workbench reads Adds a bar chart with 4 data rows after the selected text

Visualize read the paragraph about where the hours go and proposed a bar chart with the four steps, the one the passage stresses in the accent colour, placed after the paragraph. A very long title can run past the chart’s edge in Review; you can shorten it in the chart’s editor after you keep it.

Agency9 of 12

Sign-off

Drafts an Approval Card from the selected text

What it needs
Text that lists what is to be accepted
In this walk
Card with 4 items and 2 fields in 7 s

Review Changes with an Approval Card: four risk items to tick, an Accepted by field, an optional Note and a Sign off button

On the risks paragraph, Sign-off drafted an Approval Card. It holds one item per risk, an Accepted by field and a Sign off button. The Components article shows how signing records a signature beside the document.

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Form

Drafts a form with one act from the selected text

What it needs
Text that asks for a decision, a rating or an answer
In this walk
Decision form, 3 options, in 8 s

Review Changes with a form: Decision · How to cut the chase, three ways weighed against about 96 hours a quarter on email; options Keep email, Use the client portal, Buy Receiptly; Reason and Decided by fields; Record decision

On the options paragraph, Form drafted a decision form. It holds the three options as choices, a Reason, Decided by and Record decision. Review spells out what it is: Its one decision asks you before it records anything. It fetches nothing and opens nothing.

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Describe Picture

Writes alt text for the picture under the caret

What it needs
A picture under the caret, and a model that reads pictures
In this walk
Not run: Flow hasn't checked whether this model reads pictures.

The walk covers Describe Picture together with Generate Picture.

Elements in the Editor on the Client Brief: Describe Picture reads Flow hasn't checked whether this model reads pictures, and Generate Picture reads No model you've allowed can make pictures. Turn one on in Settings ▸ Models

Describe Picture writes the sentence a screen reader says for the picture under the caret, and Generate Picture makes a picture from the words you select. Both need a model that handles pictures. On this walk’s route neither had one, and each card said so in plain words instead of running and failing.

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Generate Picture

Makes a picture from the selected text

What it needs
Words describing a picture, and a picture model turned on
In this walk
Not run: No model you've allowed can make pictures.

The walk covers Generate Picture together with Describe Picture.

Elements in the Editor on the Client Brief: Describe Picture reads Flow hasn't checked whether this model reads pictures, and Generate Picture reads No model you've allowed can make pictures. Turn one on in Settings ▸ Models

Describe Picture writes the sentence a screen reader says for the picture under the caret, and Generate Picture makes a picture from the words you select. Both need a model that handles pictures. On this walk’s route neither had one, and each card said so in plain words instead of running and failing.

Elements ▸ Agency lists twelve actions a model can take on your text. Fix it, shorten it, translate it, turn it into a table or back, grow it from sources, brief it, chart it, or turn it into a checklist, a form or a picture's description. Select a paragraph and press a card, and the result waits in Review Changes. In this walk eight of the actions ran on a five-section plan. Seven came back in under ten seconds and the research brief in under a minute, all on the Claude subscription at no extra cost. Nothing changed until it was kept.

What Flow does

Every model action Flow has is one card in the sidebar, and it tells you what it will touch before you press it. Open Elements (⌘5) in Orionfold Flow and the Agency section lists twelve actions, each with a drawing and one line. Its heading says what an action would read, where it would run and on which model: 46 words · selection · Claude Code · Claude subscription. An action that can’t use what you have says why on its own row, in orange, before you waste a run. Press a card and the result arrives in Review Changes, highlighted where it lands, with a sentence saying what it did and how much it changed. Keep it, or discard it and the document is as it was.

The answer first

  1. Open the document in the Editor and select the passage. With nothing selected, an action reads the whole document.
  2. Press ⌘5 and look at the Agency heading. It says how many words, selection or whole document, and the model it will use.
  3. Press the card. Translate and Convert Table to Text pop a menu first. A card with an orange line can’t run on what you have, and the line says what it needs.
  4. Review the result in Review Changes: tick I accept changes and press the check to keep it, or press the bin to discard it. Proofread with nothing to fix says Nothing to change and opens no review.
  5. From the Reader, a card switches to the Editor and runs there; the Agency heading says so.

The job

A model is most useful on one paragraph at a time. That means the one that runs long, the one with numbers that want a chart, the one that has to go to a Spanish-speaking client. Asking a chat window means copying the paragraph out, pasting the answer back and hoping nothing else changed. Agency runs on the passage in place, shows the change against the original, and changes nothing until you say so.

The numbers

FigureValueStatus and source
Agency cards12verified: the panel’s list, read 14:26
Translate’s languages11verified: the menu, captured 14:22
Press to Review: Visualize, Translate, Summarize, Convert Text to Table, Form8 s eachverified: clock, polled every 3 s
Press to Review: Sign-off7 sverified: clock
Press to result: Proofread9 sverified: clock
Press to Review: Research Brief48 sverified: clock 14:24:22 to the review
Translate’s change96 words added or removed; original 46verified: Review’s line
Research Brief’s length547 wordsverified: Review’s line
Actions run in this walk8 of 12verified: journal
Cost of every run$0 extra, on the Claude subscriptionverified: the heading’s route and each review’s Run by Claude Code
MachineMacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB, macOS 26.6verified

Walked on: Orionfold Flow review build elements-1 (dev, main d43eb7f2), macOS 26.6, MacBook Pro M3 Max 36 GB, window 1512×949; walked 2026-10-26 14:15–14:27 PDT by the agent in an away session, one Flow instance, every run on Claude Code with the Claude subscription.

Data: Harbor Close Plan, a fictional plan for a four-person bookkeeping firm written for this walk, and the Flow Guide's Client Brief (fictional). Every proposal was discarded after its shot. The account row is painted over in every shot.

Written by the Flow product team from the walk's own records. Numbers are labelled verified, derived, assumed or unknown.

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