This article covers Ask, available on the Basic plan. If your workspace is on Pro or Enterprise, Ask is replaced by the Slite Agent, which searches across your docs and connected tools.
What is Ask?
Ask lets you ask questions in plain language and get summarized answers drawn from your workspace docs. It returns a direct response alongside the source documents it used to build it.
How Ask works
Instead of matching keywords, Ask understands the intent behind your question. It finds relevant passages across your docs — even when the wording doesn't match exactly — and synthesizes them into a single coherent answer.
New or edited content is indexed approximately 10 minutes after the last edit session ends.
Ask is available in any language. Ask your question in any language and you'll receive an answer in the same language. You can also explicitly ask it to respond in a different one — for example: "What is our time off policy? Answer in Spanish."
Getting started with Ask
Click the Ask button at the top of the left sidebar, or press Cmd+Shift+K (Ctrl+Shift+K on Windows), then type your question in the modal that appears.
If you're already using Search, add a question mark to the end of your query and you'll be prompted to switch to Ask.
Usage limits
Basic plan — Ask searches within your Slite docs, limited to 30 questions per seat per month. Once the limit is reached, Ask is unavailable until the quota resets on the 1st of the following month.
Pro and Enterprise plans — Ask is replaced by the Slite Agent, which searches across your connected tools (Slack, Linear, HubSpot, Google Drive, and more) in addition to your docs.
Instead of pinging a colleague, you can ask Slite directly from Slack. On the Basic plan, Ask answers from your Slite docs. On Pro and Enterprise, the Slite Agent handles questions and can pull from your connected tools too.
Ask uses natural language, so specific questions get better results than keyword searches. Instead of "time-off approval policies?" try "How do I submit a time-off request for approval?"
Keep your docs verified and up to date
Verified docs are prioritized in Ask results. Docs flagged as outdated are ranked lower. Use the Doc Verification feature to keep your workspace in good shape.
Track usage with Ask Insights
See which questions your team is asking — and spot gaps in your documentation — using Ask Insights. You can also assign unanswered questions to a teammate directly from Insights.
FAQ
What content does Ask have access to?
Ask searches the same documents you can access via general search, filtered by your permissions. It will not include docs from your private channel, content from comments, or Collection attributes such as tags.
Is my content used to train AI models?
No. Your content is not used to train Ask's language or AI models. Nothing is retained or learned from what Ask reads when processing a response.
Is any data sent to a third party?
To generate an answer, Ask retrieves the most relevant passages from your docs and sends only those to Anthropic for processing. The rest of your workspace content is not transmitted. Read more in Privacy at Slite.
Does Ask work with PDFs?
Yes. Ask can read and reference content from PDFs uploaded to Slite.
Can Ask be enabled on public docs?
Yes. You can enable Ask on docs published to the web, allowing visitors to use it too.