July was about Langdock working on its own at set times. This month is about the other direction: Langdock meets you where you already spend your day.

Within four weeks, two plugins have shipped. Excel on July 2, 2026, and Outlook on July 31, 2026. Both work on the same principle: Langdock sits as a panel next to your inbox or your workbook and knows what you currently have open. You ask about the email in front of you or the spreadsheet you are working on, without copying anything back and forth.

In almost every workspace we work with, we see the same pattern. The people who use Langdock daily have made it a habit to start the day there. Everyone else knows perfectly well that Langdock could help them with this one email, but they do not use it. The reason is rarely skepticism. The reason is that you are in the middle of a task, switching takes three clicks, and by then the thought is gone.

What follows from that: AI gets used for planned work, the kind you deliberately set time aside for. For running work, meaning the forty emails in the morning and the spreadsheet from a colleague, it stays untouched. But that is exactly where most of the day happens.

The Outlook plugin runs in the browser and in the desktop app. You open an email or a meeting, pop Langdock open next to it, and ask your question. Langdock sees what is open and works with it directly.

Six things it is good for day to day

• Catching up on the inboxA summary of what came in, and which of it actually needs your attention.
• Summarizing long threadsPull the key points, open questions, and next steps out of a thread, without rereading every message.
• Drafting repliesA reply based on the open thread, which you then refine in the chat for tone and content.
• Composing new emailsLangdock fills in the body, subject, and recipients.
• Tidying the inboxSort messages into folders and clear out what is done.
• Planning your weekCheck the calendar and create or change meetings, from the same conversation.

The point that builds trust

The most common worry about AI in the inbox is: what if the thing sends something? The answer is clear. Langdock only writes into the open draft and never sends it on its own. An email or an invite only goes out when you explicitly ask for it and confirm the action.

With the Excel plugin, it is the same principle applied to a different kind of work. The panel sits next to your workbook, and Langdock writes its results directly into the sheet.

Where this pays off

• Building tables and plansBudget plans, project overviews, comparison tables, reporting templates, or charts, right inside the workbook.
• CalculatingDescribe the calculation you want and Langdock adds the formulas, sums, percentages, or growth rates.
• Cleaning dataStandardize names, dates, categories, and currencies before you even start analyzing.
• AnalyzingPull out trends, outliers, changes, and the key findings from the numbers.
• EnrichingResearch companies, markets, or topics and write the context into the sheet.
• PresentingTurn the numbers into a summary that fits into a report, an email, or a presentation.

The point that builds trust

Here too the obvious worry is fair: what if this overwrites something of mine? Langdock never overwrites filled cells unless you explicitly ask for a replacement. Otherwise, it suggests a different range or asks. Formulas that pull external data or open links are always refused.

As in Outlook, "Ask before changes" is the default. The prompt shows you the action, the target range, and the number of cells affected before anything is written.

A thread anyone knows. A tender has been running for two weeks, seven messages, four people from two companies. The commitments are scattered across different emails, some from the logistics colleague, some from key account. At the top, the customer writes that her committee meets on Monday and everything must be settled by Friday.

Until now that would mean: read the thread from bottom to top and take notes along the way about who committed to what. With the plugin, you open the email and put a single instruction next to it:

Langdock reads the full thread and checks the calendar in parallel, both without you copying anything in. Out comes a short version that cleanly separates things. Committed: the pricing tiers with their thresholds, the payment terms including discount, the delivery date for all four warehouses, the delivery rhythm afterward. Open and on our side: the sustainability certification and the sample delivery.

The real find sits below that. Asked about unanswered points, Langdock delivers both that exist in the thread: the sustainability figures were requested twice and never delivered, and the question about the date for the sample delivery also stayed open. Both were buried in messages two weeks apart. Points like these are exactly what gets lost in daily work, and they are exactly what ends up costing the deal.

We tried this on a list of the kind that sits around in every company: half a year of supplier spend, 50 rows, dumped together from three sources. The same freight carrier appears in four spellings, once with a stray space before the name. Four date formats sit stacked underneath each other, from 14.01.2026 through 2026-01-16 to a plain "January 2026". The amounts are text and carry their currency with them, sometimes in euros, sometimes in francs, sometimes in dollars. Plus a credit note in parentheses, a duplicate invoice, and one empty row in the middle. Cleaning it by hand is a solid hour of grunt work before you can even ask the first question.

The first instruction was: create a copy on a new sheet, standardize the supplier names, turn the entries into real dates, split amount from currency, remove duplicates, and leave the original sheet alone.

The result was in front of us after a good minute. All four spellings of the freight carrier merged, the missing umlaut corrected, the duplicate invoice removed, the credit note correctly negative, and the one row without a category sensibly filled in. The sheet with the raw data sat next to it unchanged.

The second step was more interesting: convert everything into euros and analyze. Three things stood out, because no one had asked for them.

• Exchange rates as an assumptionLangdock placed the exchange rates used as a separate block in the sheet and marked them as an assumption. The premise is visible instead of buried inside a formula.
• Invoices and credits kept apartIt separated invoices and credits into two rows, instead of blending them into one number.
• Gaps flagged, not guessedThe one entry without a payment status showed up as its own category, "unknown". Langdock flagged the gap instead of guessing at it.

A useful detail on the side: when Langdock refers to cells in an answer, the reference appears as a clickable element, for example "Cleaned B2:B49". A click opens the sheet and highlights exactly that range.

One small thing you will run into too: as soon as the text becomes real numbers, Excel shows them in the format of your installation, in our case with English separators. A follow-up sentence in the same chat is enough, and the whole workbook switches to German format. That is really the rhythm you get used to quickly: one instruction, one glance at the result, one sentence to refine.

If you are an admin

The Langdock side is quickly done. In your workspace settings under Products and Integrations, you will find the two plugins and enable them with a toggle. Without this step, your people cannot sign in from the plugin.

For Outlook, there is one more condition on top: the plugin works through the Outlook Email and Outlook Calendar integrations. Both must be active in the workspace, because your people will be prompted to connect them the first time they open it.

If you run your own environment, you will also need a Microsoft administrator. That person uploads the app in the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal under Settings and Integrated Apps as an Office add-in, via a link to the manifest file, and defines the target audience there. The recommended step in between is to roll it out to a small group before enabling the entire organization.

If you just want to get started

For Excel, it is four steps: open the Langdock page in the Microsoft Marketplace, click "Get it now" and confirm the details, then choose "Open in Excel" and sign in with your Langdock account.

For Outlook, it is five, and three of them are easy to miss:

1. Open an email first

   You have to have an email open, otherwise the apps in the toolbar are greyed out and you simply cannot find Langdock.

2. Connect the same account

   Connect Outlook Email and Outlook Calendar to the same Microsoft account you use in Outlook. Otherwise, Langdock ends up working with a different mailbox than the one in front of you.

3. Pin the panel

   Pin the panel with the pin icon. Outlook closes an unpinned panel as soon as you switch to the next email. In the compose window for a new email, you have to repeat this once separately.

Both plugins have a field under "Preferences" in the top menu for your own instructions, which only applies to chats inside this plugin and is independent of your global account settings. Below it, you pick a default model that is preselected for every new plugin chat.

If you have already built Skills in Langdock, they are available inside the plugin as well.

Both take less than ten minutes to set up, and both answer the same question from your own experience: what changes when the hurdle disappears? Our experience says this is exactly the point where occasional experimentation turns into a habit.