By skyforbes 
Everyone thinks they know ChatGPT. You open it, ask a question, and get an answer. End of story, right? Wrong. ChatGPT is hiding capabilities that even daily users haven’t scratched. Once you uncover them, it stops being a chatbot and becomes a business partner, creative studio, and automation powerhouse rolled into one.
This isn’t hype. This is the real, hidden layer of ChatGPT — the one people making serious money are quietly using while others just write blog posts about “prompt engineering.” Let’s lift the curtain.
The Secret Superpower: ChatGPT Can Read, Understand, and Compare Massive Documents
Most people use ChatGPT for text summaries or blog ideas. The real players upload files. You can drop in a PDF, a spreadsheet, a legal contract, or a full company report — and ChatGPT can analyze, extract data, compare sections, and even catch inconsistencies that a human might miss.
Imagine feeding it five market reports and asking, “Which industries have the fastest growth but lowest startup competition?” It will process them all, summarize trends, and give actionable insight.
Lawyers use it to flag vague clauses in contracts. Analysts use it to reconcile numbers between reports. Founders use it to extract pricing data from competitors’ PDFs.
What everyone else calls “AI summarization” is real research automation.