AskX changelog

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What's next? Shushing Face

Orchestrated mode. Sometimes, you're not really asking, you're searching. We're exploring a mode dedicated to this. → try it in the Ask Labs
New sources (Git documentation and Github wiki, Hubspot, websites, Asana, reach through support to request others!)
Custom sources!
New Ask Insights workflow

Jira, Digest, and a better selection experience!



Weekly digest

You might have received one already, AskX users now receive weekly a digest of the last activities in your team!
We had overwhelming positive answers on this one, and YES the plan is to let you customise it to your personal needs Shushing Face
For now, the Digest is generated based on your Slack public channels activities (only for the users authenticated in your Slack)


Jira joins AskX sources

You can now sync your Jira tickets with AskX, to ask on project status and updates.

Other notable improvements

  • You can now add and remove your sources in bulk.
  • @-mention a space to use it in seconds.
  • New experience to report missing or incorrect answers, you can now comment, assign or dismiss in the flow of your question.
  • Linear, github and Jira metadata are used when answering (You can ask "what's the status of this pull request?").



Threads and voice to text



Keep the context of your questions

When you ask multiple questions in a row and refine your search, you can now scroll to see the previously asked questions!


Don't write down, speak up

Get to your answer even faster, hit the little mic button and say what you need.

Quality of life

  • Much better language detection, no more answers you can't read Grinning Face with Sweat
  • Much higher stability of the AI - no more SSE error Relieved Face


References, Instructions, Github support and a new Slack integration



References in your answers

You can now see which source supported each part of AskX answer, with an explainer attached.

Custom instructions

AskX goes beyond simple questions. You can specify instructions and context for our AI to formulate its answer differently.


New Slack integration

When you @-mention Slite in Slack, you now will get the AskX level of answers, with a direct link to open AskX app with your query


Github support

We now index your Github Pull Requests and Issues. Ask anything on them, or type github to get in a new preview mode letting you retrieve them with advanced search, or even generate charts from your usage :kiss_chef:.

And more

Filter in a flash with date filters presets, last week, last month, last year High Voltage
Tables, quotes, and other new rich text elements are supported in answers.


Chrome extension, Instructions and more



AskX Chrome extension is here

  • Ask your questions without leaving your window, hit cmd/ctrl + shift + K
  • Access AskX fast in any new tab


Beyond questions, add instructions

You can now tell AskX to do more than just answer, using our instruction prompt. For instance, "generate a description for the listing of our extension" (slightly meta).
Hit the instruction button, describe your needs, and voila!


AskX in Slite

If you use Slite for your Knowledge base and decided to upgrade and get AskX, it will now replace your default Ask experience in Slite.
Small but mighty
  • We are finally sending an onboarding flow by email to your teammate getting on AskX
  • You can append ?fillAskQuestion={your question} at the end of your URL to get AskX started
  • You can browse Confluence sources in the source panel
  • The report flow has been clarified

Fixes
  • Confluence authentication now works for all users
  • We added back a way to copy the answer
  • Google source picker opens up after authentication
  • Users can skip the onboarding


AskX v0.9

 - We don't actually have version numbers yet.
But this is how it feels: we spent the last month ironing out all parts of the experience for new and existing users to get to their "Eureka!" moment without frictions.

AskX now runs on Claude Sonnet 3.5

On a EU-hosted version of Anthropic's latest model to be more precise.
It radically improves the quality of our various assistants.

Sources improvements

  • We added Confluence as a new source!
  • .pdf and .pptx are indexed from Sharepoint sources.
  • The number of indexed pages is now live reloaded in the source manager.

Better spaces

We redesigned the way to build Spaces (pre-set filters) and added a way to specify the prompt to be used in them.

A sneak peek at modes Shushing Face

Getting to an answer can take many shapes. We started optimising for "knowledge" type of questions, but are building for more, with modes. You can try 2 of them already:
  • A simple demo mode to ask questions on our AskX guide
  • If you use Linear, try asking for analysis of your usage, or listing tickets, it's able to do these research mixing structured data ("show me completed issues") and unstructured information ("related to improving import")


You can now filter simply by typing @



Source manager improvements for GDrive and Notion

 - You can now explore with more ease the content of your Google Drive (with proper management of Shared drives and Shared with me tabs), we replaced Google official picker Face with Rolling Eyes
And you can explore the pages indexed in your Notion data source.


Clearer sources restrictions and new file support

 - We added back a tab to upload your own files in the source manager, now with support for pdf, pptx(including Google Slides), docx, .html and .txt.

For each data source we now indicates clearly what restrictions apply, what formats are supported (if relevant), and how we handle access rights.


New AskX help center

 - You can now see official documentation to AskX on our dedicated mini help center:


New website


We just released a new website, preparing AskX's official private beta!


Sharepoint and OneDrive

 - We released OneDrive and Sharepoint as sources!

Quality of life and new Sources panel Person Golfing

 We are working hard on improving our 3rd party data syncing to enhance indexing and unlock many more sources. But in the meantime, we shipped a lot of quality of life improvements!

  • Rework core UI (placement of each block, better buttons, loaders, placeholders, etc).
  • You can now write your questions over multiple lines
  • A whole new experience to add and manage your sources
  • Lot of improvements on Filters (filter only by Slite data, fix excluded sources, date filter resetting others, etc.)



New layout and experience

 - The new version of AskX brings a new experience, with the answer and sources on each side, and a cleaner display of filter and precision suggestions.
Other improvements have been made on the format of the answers and

FYI - While we keep iterating on the front side, our biggest work item coming next will be under the hood.
We are working hard to enable more sources with new types (SQL data, CRM etc).
Keep sending us your feedback and needs on this front Raising Hands



Better answers, better fail management

 - Here is a demo of how you can customise the prompt for AskX and how AskX help you improve your knowledge when it fails. More details below Backhand Index Pointing Down


Pre-prompt for answer styling
You can now select the way your answer should be written (concise, detailed, or custom). Share your best custom prompts with us!

Fix and complete your knowledge with the new Ask Insights
Ask is a terrific tool to detect what knowledge is incorrect or missing. In the new insights panel, you can now see reported or missing answers, and act on them!
  • Retry a failed Ask query
  • Dismiss if it has been fixed
  • Answer in the other case, which will fix the case for the future.

Suggestions on sources and date refinement
Very exploratory - You will now be suggested channels and date range to filter by that could add more precise context and yield better answers.





Enhanced Sources, Media, Databases

 - Following the new AskX interface and focus on assisting you filtering through the noise, we released 3 new blocks.

The "Media" block showing images from sources.
The Database block for data questions, typically on tables in your docs or on your project management tool.
Our enhanced source block explaining why sources have been picked to answer.

New AskX experience Sparkles

 - We pushed our biggest change since starting AskX.


Company data are full of contradictions and outdated information. But hey, that's also what makes it so rich! We embrace this challenge and have drifted away from a pure chat interface to make AskX an iterative search experience enhanced by AI.

AskX now prompts you to:
  • Refine your question
  • Provide much more context on the results it finds
  • Reformulate your question as you iterate




Precision questions
Source explanation
Visual issues fixed (dark mode, tag buttons overflowing)




Chat - Showing the steps taken by Ask to answer you
Chat - Show the Inferred question
Chat - Show the detected language and NER (entities) detected
Spaces - decorate with icons
Add a cleaner way to report questions.
Spaces - filter by subdocs





  • A new chat experience is now here, paving the way to much more refined capacities.
  • You can properly edit and delete Spaces
  • You can now filter by Slite channel and any other external source: Slack channel, Linear team, Gdrive folder, etc.






  • You can use Slite sources in Spaces
  • Suggested questions adapt to the Space you are in
  • AskX works on web mobile
  • Internal - Analytics are plugged for askX




  • Ask Spaces v0.1 live!
  • Files are live with good PDF support
  • Suggested questions are live




  • Ask Signup flow is live
  • Internal - Test suite for Ask is in place. With internal tagging we saw patterns on type of questions asked and issues. We'll continue investigating but it gives us ways to improve the quality without doing back and forth.
  • New prompt shipped for more strict accuracy of answers