Amazon has launched Quick as a full desktop app, putting its workplace AI assistant in direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. The difference it’s banking on: Quick doesn’t wait to be asked. It runs continuously in the background, learning how you work and acting before you need to prompt it.The app lives on your laptop and stays connected to your files, calendar, email, and over a dozen business tools—Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Salesforce, Zoom, Dropbox, and more. Pull data from an internal browser tool, analyze it with a local Python script, paste the output into a doc. One request, no switching tabs.
The bigger idea: AI that knows your job, not just your last question
Quick builds a personal knowledge graph from every interaction—your preferences, your team, your projects, your brand guidelines. Ask it to draft a customer win note and it already knows who needs to be copied, what the deal details were, and that you mentioned this client could be a reference in a Slack message three days ago. That kind of memory is what Amazon is pitching as its edge over rivals.Enterprise adoption is already underway. 3M’s sales reps save five hours a week. Amazon Books cut the time spent on coordinating documents by 80%. New York Life replaced a nightly multi-report reconciliation process with a single conversational agent.
Beyond chat: Quick now builds apps, decks, and live dashboards from plain language
New creation tools let users generate presentations, infographics, and images directly inside the interface. A preview feature takes it further—teams can describe an internal app or dashboard in plain English and quickly builds it, connects it to live data, and deploys it. Microsoft 365 extensions for Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are also coming.Quick is free to start with just an email at aws.amazon.com/quick. Amazon’s bet is straightforward: whoever owns your context owns your workday.
