What Ask is
Ask is a built-in data agent your end-users talk to in plain English. They type a question — "which customers are overdue and not in the Q3 deal?" — and Ask plans a query, runs it against your Tadabase data, and renders the answer. No report builder, no filters, no training.
How answers come back
Ask picks the clearest shape for each question and renders it natively:
| Render | When Ask uses it |
|---|---|
| Table | A list of matching records — "show me open tickets by owner." |
| Chart | A comparison or trend — "revenue by month this year." |
| Number | A single metric — "how many invoices are overdue?" |
| Sentence | A written answer when prose reads better than a grid. |
Every answer is permission-scoped
Ask runs every query under the signed-in user's own Tadabase session. The same row-level security you already wrote applies — a user can never use Ask to see a record they couldn't already see in the app.
Turning Ask on
Ask is enabled per interface, so you can offer it on a customer portal but keep it off an admin-only screen. Flip it on in the app's AI settings, and it appears for users with access to that interface.