Tuesday Memo · 6 October 2026 · Issue 16
Your phone is now a document scanner for ChatGPT
What is inside: a scanner in the ChatGPT app, a prompt that pulls every date and cost out of a document, and an always-on agent most of you cannot get yet.
A lot of the paperwork that matters still arrives on paper: a supplier contract, a lease, a letter from HMRC.
Getting it into ChatGPT used to mean photographing each page and hoping. On iPhone, that just got easier.
One thing worth your time
A scanner inside ChatGPT
OpenAI has added a Scan option to the camera in the ChatGPT iPhone app. Open the camera, tap the three-dot menu and choose Scan. Photograph each page in a row and ChatGPT joins them into one PDF, ready to ask questions about.
OpenAI lists it for iOS only so far, and it is rolling out, so it may take a few days to reach you. Check anything important against the paper before you act on it.
→ Update the ChatGPT app on the App Store
One prompt to try
The dates that cost money
Contracts keep their expensive parts in the dates: notice periods, renewals, price rises. Scan the document in, or paste it, and pull them into one table before you sign anything.
From the document below, list every date, deadline, notice period and sum of money. Put them in a table: what it is, the date or amount, and the page it is on. Flag anything that renews automatically or needs me to act by a set date. For each flag, say in one line what happens if I miss it. Document: [ATTACH THE SCAN OR PASTE THE TEXT]
Try it on the next contract before it goes in the drawer.
One thing to ignore
ChatGPT’s always-on dot
OpenAI has launched dots: an always-on agent (an Ai that keeps working on a goal without being asked each time) inside ChatGPT. It runs on a computer OpenAI hosts online and reports back.
For most of you it is out of reach. OpenAI’s own help page says UK Pro accounts are excluded at launch. The other route is the Business Premium plan. Usage terms after the first month are not published. Wait until the price and rules are clear.
Scan one contract this week, run the prompt on it, and let the agent headlines pass.
The Breezi Ai team
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