Ask Read is Read's AI-powered search and discovery engine that enables you to seamlessly search your entire knowledge base, which includes your meeting reports as well as your connected integrations. It allows you to get answers to your most pressing questions quickly and easily, and is available for free to all Read users. 

Ask Read works with all of your meeting reports, as well as your:

• Email (Gmail & Outlook)
• Calendar (Google, Outlook, & Zoom)
• Chat (Slack & Microsoft Teams)
• Cloud storage (Google Drive & Microsoft OneDrive)*
• Documentation (Confluence & Notion)*
• CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce)*

*Premium integrations are only supported on one of Read's paid plans.

If your tool isn’t listed, please contact us here—we're constantly adding new integrations!

How to use Ask Read

Using Ask Read is easy, just type your question or prompt into the search bar and hit enter/return. You can find the search bar on the Ask Read page, along the top of most pages on Read's web app, or in most of our apps and extensions:

You can ask a question using natural language, like "What issues came up in my meeting yesterday?" or even a more involved prompt like "Write a status update for my manager on the things I worked on last week." There's no limit to the number of searches or prompts you can submit.

If you want to narrow your query to ensure Ask Read is pulling from only the most relevant sources, you can click on the globe icon, and then click on 'Custom' to make filters appear. There are options to filter by date, by source (both at the category level and for specific integrations), and whether the content was created by you or by others.

Sharing Ask Read results

If you get an answer from Ask Read that you want to share with others, you can either click on the copy button to copy the response to your clipboard, or you can click the paperclic button to get a link that you can share with others:

Ask Read chat history

Ask once, and revisit anytime. On the Ask Read page, you can open up a side panel to display your recent chats. If you do not see it, click the icon at the top right to open the chat history. On the left-hand navigation, you'll also see your 3 most recent chats if you expand where it says 'Ask Read'. Click "All Chat History" to go to the Ask Read History table to search prompts, delete prompts or rerun chats.

To turn chat history on or off, or delete all chat history, you can visit Account Settings > Ask Read
 

Workspace settings for Ask Read

Workspace admin can enable or disable Ask Read and Chat History for workspace members.

Go to Workspace Settings > Settings > Ask Read

Additionally, when both of these settings (Ask Read and Chat History) are enabled or disabled, that preference can be enforced across the workspace, or admins can allow workspace members to turn it on or off for themselves. If an admin disables Ask Read, it will automatically turn off Chat History because the users have to be able to use Ask Read in order to have chat history.

Chat history across the workspace can also be deleted here. This delete action applies to all chat history of all workspace members. Once deleted, shared links to these chats will no longer work.

How it works

By leveraging our proprietary models, Free Agent capabilities, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology, we bring relevant data from various sources into a unified search experience and then use advanced large language models to generate accurate, context-aware responses with citations.

Ask Read will only search the content that is available in your account, it does not have access to e.g. other content from people in your workspace unless they have shared it with you. Your search results will get more comprehensive the more integrations that you connect - look for the "Ask Read" label to see whether an integration is supported for this feature.

Also, note that all for integrations which support both pushing and pulling content from and into Read, you have the option to disable the pulling of data into Read while still using the feature to push meeting notes from Read. For example this is the relevant setting in the HubSpot integration:

Ask Read also works with all of the different languages that Read supports. Ask Read will naturally return answers in the language you query it with, or you can even ask it to return answers in a completely different language.