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title: Find and run tasks
url: https://docs.creagents.com/use/tasks/
description: Ask your AI for CRE work in plain words. Start with "Use Vic to" and it finds the right task.
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# Find and run tasks

Ask your AI for CRE work in plain words. Start with "Use Vic to" and it finds the right task.

A task is one ready-to-run job, like abstracting a lease or scrubbing a broker's pro forma. You don't need to know task names. Describe what you need, and your AI finds the right one with Vic.

## Watch Vic at work

Pick a task below and watch it run start to finish. Your AI looks different, but the steps are the same in Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or any other AI.

**Animation:** Six CRE Agents tasks running inside an AI chat app. Each starts with Use Vic to. Vic hands the AI the playbook, the AI asks a question or two, borrows Vic's methods and data, and delivers a Word memo or an Excel workbook. [Watch it](https://docs.creagents.com/demos/vic-harness.html)

Every run has the same beats:

1. **You ask.** "Use Vic to ..." plus your files.
2. **Vic picks the playbook.** Your AI asks Vic which task fits.
3. **A question or two.** Anything the task needs that you didn't say.
4. **Vic's methods and data.** Your AI borrows the know-how and pulls the numbers.
5. **The file.** A workbook, a memo or an answer in chat, with a short summary.

## What to ask

| You say | What you get |
|---|---|
| "Use Vic to abstract this lease." | A lease abstract in standard sections: parties and term, rent, expenses, reporting, default, assignment and more. |
| "Use Vic to compare this T12 to the broker's pro forma." | A line-by-line variance workbook that flags what looks aggressive or conservative. |
| "Use Vic to analyze the lease rollover at this property." | An expiration schedule by year, WALT, mark-to-market, and the cost of re-leasing. |
| "Use Vic to pull a rate briefing for a refi." | A short benchmark-rate briefing (SOFR, Treasuries, the swap curve) framed for your purpose. |
| "Use Vic to do a deep location read on this address." | The site, the trade area, the labor market, and the demand drivers around it. |

These are examples. Your catalogs decide which tasks you can run.

## Tips

- **Attach the file.** A rent roll, a T12, a lease or an OM. Your AI reads it and asks for anything else it needs.
- **Say the property and the goal.** An address and what the work is for (a bid, a refi, an IC memo) gets you a sharper answer.
- **Not sure what's possible?** Ask "Use Vic to show me what you can do."

## Find tasks in the portal

Open **Task + Data** in the portal and click a catalog to see its tasks. Click a task to see what it gives you, what your AI will ask for, and a ready prompt. **Copy prompt**, or open it straight in your AI. You can also search every task at once, or [ask Vic](https://docs.creagents.com/portal/ask-vic.md).

![The Acquisitions catalog page: who it's for, 49 tasks and 34 data sources, a Remove button, a search box, tasks grouped by workstream (Source and screen first) with the hours each saves, and the data in this catalog on the right.](https://docs.creagents.com/media/use/library-catalog.webp)

*A catalog's tasks, grouped by workstream.*

![A task panel for Analyze County Migration: saves about 0.7 hours of manual work, what it's for, what your AI needs (a request, and an optional output format), a starter prompt, and Copy prompt and Open in ChatGPT buttons.](https://docs.creagents.com/media/use/library-task.webp)

*Click a task for its starter prompt. Copy it, or open it straight in your AI.*

## Next steps

- [Catalogs](https://docs.creagents.com/use/catalogs.md): Which tasks you have, and how to add more.
- [Data sources](https://docs.creagents.com/use/data.md): The live data your tasks pull in.