Can Cowork actually help with decision-making and creative work?

This is where people underestimate it. Process automation is obvious. But a busy professional making a judgment call often needs to pull information from five different places: old emails, a conversation from three months ago, external research, internal documents, a contact's history. That multi-source legwork is exactly what Cowork is good at. Ask it to gather what you need, and you get a briefing in minutes instead of spending an afternoon digging. Creative work is similar. Cowork won't design your graphics (yet), but it's a capable note-taker, writing companion, and editor. Talk through your ideas, let it capture and structure your thoughts, clean up your prose, check your spelling as you go. For anyone who writes content or makes decisions based on scattered information, the productivity gain is real and often bigger than the process automation savings.