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How AI answers work

The AI assistant answers questions by searching your published knowledge base, finding relevant articles, and generating a response with citations to the source content.

Content scope

AI answers come from your published articles only. Drafts, unpublished changes, and internal notes are not included.

If you have no published articles, the AI cannot answer most questions. Publish at least one article before enabling AI answers.

Answer generation

When a user submits a question, the AI assistant:

  1. Searches the published knowledge base for articles related to the question

  2. Retrieves the most relevant content from matching articles

  3. Synthesizes a concise answer based on the retrieved content

  4. Attaches clickable citations to the source articles

Citations

Every AI answer includes clickable citations that link to the source articles. Click a citation to read the full article for more context.

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