ask ci — the assistant

Ask a question. Get a cited answer.

Ask CI is an assistant that answers competitive questions from your own knowledge base — and shows its sources every time. No feed to sift through, no hallucinated confidence. And it can run its search and retrieval entirely on your own hardware.

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what it does

Inside Ask CI Assistant

01

Run it on-box

Ask CI can search and retrieve entirely on your own hardware — no external AI calls and no per-query cost — so even the questions your team asks never leave your network. On our own testing, on-box retrieval matched a leading cloud model.

02

Sharp, relevant answers

PrismCI blends meaning-based and keyword search, then re-ranks the results, so an answer pulls the passage that actually matters — not just a fuzzy match.

03

Every answer is cited

Each response links back to the documents, pages, or interviews it came from. Trust, not vibes.

04

Or bring a cloud model, fully governed

Prefer a frontier model for the written answer? Use OpenAI, Anthropic, or OpenRouter with oversight on by default — PII redaction, per-feature budgets, a kill switch, and a full audit before anything leaves.

05

Multi-turn threads

Follow up, refine, and branch — the assistant keeps context across the conversation.

06

Grounded in your data

Answers come only from your knowledge base and monitored sources, so they reflect your business, not the open web.

ai does the heavy lifting

How the AI carries the load

Ask CI is where PrismCI's AI meets the rep or analyst in the moment they need an answer.

step 1

Retrieves

Finds the most relevant passages across uploads, pages, calls, and win-loss — on your own hardware, if you choose.

step 2

Synthesizes

Writes a direct answer with talk tracks, landmines, and pricing where relevant.

step 3

Cites

Attaches the sources so anyone can verify — and drill deeper.

why it's different

Crayon and Klue run assistants on an undisclosed cloud model, with no cost visibility and no control over what the AI sees. Ask CI can run its search and retrieval entirely on your own hardware — nothing leaves your network — and when you do choose a cloud model, you pick it, govern it, and see what every query costs.

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