Real use cases
You're already doing this.
Just with more duct tape.
Your tools weren't built for AI. You can make them work — with integrations, workarounds, and copy-pasting. Or you can use a pad that works natively. That's AI interoperability — shared context that works across every platform, not locked inside one.
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Without
Your writing voice
You paste "write in my tone — casual, short sentences, no jargon" into Claude's custom instructions. A different version in ChatGPT's memory settings. A Google Doc somewhere with your full style guide that your AI needs workarounds to read. You copy-paste between three places and they're always out of sync.
Claude instructions
ChatGPT memory
Google Docs
Copy-paste
With scratchthepad
One pad your AI can actually read.
Your Google Doc needs integrations for your AI to read it. Your custom instructions are stuck on one platform. The pad sits where both you and your AI agent can natively read and write. Update once, your agent has it.
AI agents · read + write
Any AI · read
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Without
Brand voice for your team
Brand guidelines in a Google Doc. Excerpts copy-pasted into ChatGPT when someone needs on-brand copy. A Notion page with tone examples your freelancer can't access without an account. A Slack message saying "use the voice from the Q3 deck." Meanwhile every AI session starts from zero.
Google Docs
Notion
Slack
ChatGPT
Copy-paste
With scratchthepad
One pad your whole team's AI can read — no login.
Notion needs an account. Google Docs needs "share access." The pad is a URL — your freelancer opens it, every AI reads it. Same brand voice, everywhere, with zero access management.
AI agents · read + write
Any AI · read
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Without
The project brief everyone actually reads
Brief in Google Docs. Status updates in Asana. Decisions in Slack threads. Open questions in an email chain. Your AI needs workarounds to access any of it. You spend 5 minutes per session pasting context from three different tools.
Google Docs
Asana
Slack
Email
Claude
With scratchthepad
One pad both humans and AI can work from.
Your project tools are great for humans. Your AI can read them too — with integrations, plugins, and setup. The pad is where both your collaborator and your AI get the same context natively — no login, no integration, no pasting.
AI agents · read + write
Any AI · read
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Without
Working with AI across sessions
Monday's Claude session was productive — decisions were made. You copy key points into Apple Notes so you don't forget. Thursday you open a new conversation — Claude remembers nothing. You dig through Notes, paste some of it back, forget the rest. ChatGPT has its own memory that contradicts what you told Claude.
Apple Notes
Claude memory
ChatGPT memory
Copy-paste
With scratchthepad
Your agent reads and writes back. Every session builds on the last.
AI agents read the pad at the start of every session and write a summary back — decisions, open questions, status. The context compounds instead of evaporating. AI Chat Assistants like Grok and Perplexity can read it too.
AI agents · read + write
Any AI · read
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Without
Sharing a brief with someone outside your org
Brief in Notion — your freelancer needs an account. Export to Google Docs — "request access." Fall back to email with a PDF attachment. They email questions back. You update the Notion page, send another PDF. Your AI is still working off the version you pasted into custom instructions three weeks ago.
Notion
Google Docs
Email
PDF
AI instructions
With scratchthepad
One URL. They read it. Your AI reads it. No login for either.
Notion and Google Docs are built for humans with accounts. Your AI and your freelancer both get blocked by login walls. The pad has no walls — URL to read, key to write, works for everyone.
AI agents · read + write
Any AI · read
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Without
Collating feedback from everywhere
Feedback lives in email threads, Slack DMs, in-person conversation notes, survey responses, and support tickets. You spend 30 minutes before every product review just finding and re-reading everything. Your AI has seen none of it unless you paste each piece individually.
Email
Slack
Meeting notes
Surveys
Support tickets
With scratchthepad
One pad. Every piece of feedback. Your AI reads all of it.
Drop feedback into the pad as it arrives — a quote from an email, a note from a call, a Slack message. Your AI reads the full picture and spots patterns, contradictions, and themes you'd miss reading each source separately.
AI agents · read + write
Any AI · read
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