Clear Ideas™ AI Enhanced Search
AI Enhanced Search uses semantic understanding to interpret query intent and meaning, not just exact keyword matches. It understands synonyms, context, and conceptual relationships—searching for "board meeting minutes" also finds "governance session notes" and "director discussions." This eliminates the need to guess exact terminology while finding more relevant results than keyword-only search.
Yes, ask questions in plain English like "What were the key risks identified in Q3?" instead of trying keywords like "risks Q3 report." The AI interprets your question intent, retrieves relevant context from documents, and ranks results by relevance to your actual information need—not just keyword density.
Yes, built-in text extraction automatically processes scanned PDFs, images, and documents to make all content fully searchable. Once processed, you can search text within images, scanned contracts, or handwritten notes just like native digital documents. The system even searches metadata, annotations, and embedded content.
Search results automatically respect all permission controls and site access boundaries. Users only see content from sites they have access to and documents within their permission level. External users never see results from unauthorized sites—maintaining security while providing powerful search capabilities.
Yes, search across all sites you have access to simultaneously or scope search to specific sites for focused results. This enables cross-site discovery (finding similar contracts across subsidiaries) while respecting site-level security boundaries. Site-scoped search ensures sensitive information stays within appropriate contexts.
All major file types including PDFs, Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), text files, markdown, HTML, images with text, scanned documents, presentations, and more. Audio and video files are searchable via transcripts if available.
Search indexes update in near real-time as content is added, modified, or deleted. New documents typically appear in search results within minutes of upload. This ensures users always search against current content without manual reindexing or delays common in traditional enterprise search systems.
Yes, comprehensive search analytics track query patterns, popular topics, result click-through rates, and search success metrics. Site administrators see what users search for, which results they select, and where searches fail—insights that optimize content organization and identify documentation gaps.
AI Chat uses the same semantic search technology to retrieve relevant context for answering questions. When you ask AI Chat a question, it searches your private data using advanced retrieval to find pertinent information, then generates responses grounded in those search results with source citations.