Ask Read is Read’s AI search and chat tool. It searches your meeting reports and the integrations you’ve connected, so you can get quick answers to your questions.
Ask Read is free for all Read users. Some features need a paid plan:
| Feature | Free | Paid plans (Pro, Enterprise, Enterprise+) |
|---|---|---|
| Searching meetings, email, calendar, and chat | ✓ | ✓ |
| Premium integrations (cloud storage, documentation, CRM, project management) | ✓ | |
| ChatGPT and Claude models (LLM modes) | ✓ |
What Ask Read can search
Ask Read works with all your meeting reports, plus:
- The web
- Email: Gmail and Outlook
- Calendar: Google, Outlook, and Zoom
- Chat: Slack and Microsoft Teams
- Cloud storage: Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive*
- Documentation: Confluence and Notion*
- CRM: HubSpot and Salesforce*
- Project management: Jira*
*Premium integrations, available on paid plans only.
If a tool you use isn’t listed, please let us know. We’re adding new integrations all the time.
How to use Ask Read
Type your question or request in the search bar and press Enter. You’ll find the search bar:
- On the Ask Read page
- At the top of most pages in the Read web app
- In most of Read’s apps and extensions
You can ask simple questions, like “What issues came up in my meeting yesterday?”, or give bigger requests, like “Write a status update for my manager on what I worked on last week.” There’s no limit on how many questions you can ask.
Narrow your search
To have Ask Read use only certain sources, click the icon on the left of the search bar, then click Custom. Filters appear above the search bar, so you can filter by:
- Date (for example, Anytime, Last 7 days, or a date range)
- Source (All Sources, or a category or specific integration)
- Access (All Access, Created by me, or Shared with me)
Add images
You can attach images with the attachment (paperclip) button, by dragging and dropping, or by pasting. Ask Read reads the image along with your question, your meetings, and your connected sources. This is useful when what you need is in a screenshot, dashboard, or diagram.
Use ChatGPT or Claude models (paid plans)
On paid plans, you can choose models from OpenAI (ChatGPT) or Anthropic (Claude) in Ask Read. These models search the web for current information. They don’t search your meetings or connected sources. For more details, see FAQ: Ask Read with LLMs.
Workspace admins can turn off these models for their Workspace (see Workspace settings for Ask Read below).
Sharing Ask Read results
To share an answer, either:
- Click the copy button to copy the response, or
- Click the link button (Copy link to answer) to get a link you can share with others.
Ask Read chat history
You can come back to past chats at any time:
- On the Ask Read page: The Recent Chats panel lists your chats from this week, last week, and the last 30 days.
- In the left-hand navigation: Expand Ask Read to see your most recent chats.
- To see all your chats: Click All Chat History to open the Chat History page. From there, you can search your chats, turn a chat’s Public Link on or off, copy its link, or delete it.
To turn chat history on or off, or to delete all your history, go to Account Settings > Ask Read.
Workspace settings for Ask Read
Workspace admins can manage Ask Read for their members from Workspace Settings > Settings > Ask Read:
- Ask Read and Chat History: Turn each on or off. For each setting, admins can apply it to the whole Workspace or let members choose for themselves. Turning off Ask Read also turns off Chat History.
- LLM modes: Under Enabled Ask Read LLM Modes, turn off any ChatGPT or Claude models you don’t want members to use.
- Delete All Chat History: Delete chat history for every member of the Workspace. This can’t be undone, and links to those chats will stop working.
How it works
Ask Read uses Read’s own models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to pull relevant information from your sources. It then uses large language models to write answers, with citations.
What Ask Read can see: Ask Read only searches content you have access to. For example, it can’t see other Workspace members’ content unless they’ve shared it with you. The more integrations you connect, the more Ask Read can search. Look for the Ask Read label on the Integrations page to see which integrations it supports.
Turning off data for Ask Read: For integrations that both send data to Read and receive meeting notes from Read, you can stop Ask Read from using that integration’s data and still keep sending meeting notes to it. For example, here’s the setting in the HubSpot integration:
Languages: Ask Read works in all the languages Read supports. It answers in the language you ask in, or you can ask for an answer in another language.