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Search & Ask

Search & Ask

Find anything across everything you're allowed to see — or just ask a question in plain English and get the current answer with the source cited. No remembering which room a document is in.

Scoped to you, always. Search and answers only ever reach the rooms and documents you can open. You can never see a result — or an answer drawn from a document — that you couldn't already read. External people (clients, partners, auditors) get exactly their slice, nothing more.

Search across your rooms

Search runs over the real contents of your documents, decks, and prototypes — not just their titles. Type a few words and get the matching documents ranked by relevance, each showing which room it lives in.

"Search our rooms for the current travel policy."
"Find the pricing one-pager we sent Acme."

Ask a question, get an answer

Instead of opening documents one by one, ask the question outright. You get a direct answer in plain English with the source document cited, so you can click through and confirm. If nothing in your rooms answers it, it tells you so — it won't invent one.

"How many vacation days do new hires get in their first year?"
"What's our stance on customer data retention — and which doc says so?"
Honest by design. An answer always comes with a citation, or an honest "I don't have a document that covers that." A confident answer with no source to back it is exactly what we refuse to show.

Why results stay trustworthy

A search is only as good as the pile it runs over. Because every document here is authored by describing it to the assistant, rooms works to keep that pile healthy rather than let it fill with stale, duplicate pages:

  • Current beats stale. Verified, recently-updated, and actively-read content ranks above forgotten or superseded pages — so the answer you get first is the one you can trust.
  • Fewer duplicates to wade through. When you start a document that looks like one that already exists, you're pointed to the original instead of quietly making a second copy.
  • Ownership is known. Documents carry an owner, so "who do I ask about this?" always has an answer — and nothing goes unowned when someone leaves.
  • In Claude — just ask, and the assistant searches your rooms and answers with citations.
  • In the web app — a search box across the top of the console.
  • On a room page — readers can search within what they've been given access to.
Search and Ask respect the same permissions as everything else (see Access & people). Making content easy to find never makes it easier to reach than the person is allowed to.
Search is only as good as the pile beneath it. The features that keep that pile healthy — ownership, a health dashboard, a curation queue, and a report of what people search for and don't find — are on Content health & curation.
Working from your existing content? When you ask the assistant to write or reason from what's already in your rooms, it reads the relevant text for you automatically — see How Claude reads your rooms.