# Ask Documents

> Ask BuildX Studio's AI assistant questions about a submittal, based on its details and revision items, from the Ask Documents page or the drawing preview.

Source: https://docs.buildx.pro/docs/studio/ask-documents/

Ask Documents lives at studio.mybuildx.com/ask. It's a chat with an AI assistant about one drawing set (submittal) at a time. The same **Drawing Assistant** also opens from the robot button in a submittal's drawing preview.

## What you can do

- Pick a **Job** and a **Drawing set**, then ask questions in plain language.
- Start from a suggestion: "What are the key revision items?", "Any coordination issues?", "Summarize this submittal".
- Jump back to sets you asked about in **Recently asked**.
- Open any finding from **Findings in this set**.

## Ask a question

1. Open **Ask Documents** in the sidebar.
2. In **Job**, pick a job. In **Drawing set**, pick a submittal.
3. Type your question in **Ask about this drawing...** and send it, or click a suggestion under **Try asking:**.
4. Read the answer. The assistant is told to cite a sheet for every claim and to say when it can't.
5. Click a finding under **Findings in this set** to open it on its sheet.

## What the assistant knows

For the selected submittal, the assistant gets:

- The submittal's name, spec section, revision number, and status.
- Every revision item on it: description, sheet, location, priority, and status.

It doesn't read the drawing PDFs themselves. Answers about dimensions or details that aren't in a revision item are not grounded in the sheets, so check them against the drawings. To get markups into revision items, run [Analyze Redlines](https://docs.buildx.pro/docs/studio/revisions.md) first.

## Good to know

- **Recently asked** lasts for your current visit only.
- Conversations aren't saved. Reloading the page starts over.
- If the AI service is down, you'll see "The drawing assistant is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in a few minutes."
- Ask Documents is separate from Ask BuildX on buildx.pro, which answers cost questions for property owners.

## Related

- [Revisions and redlines](https://docs.buildx.pro/docs/studio/revisions.md)
- [Projects and submittals](https://docs.buildx.pro/docs/studio/projects-submittals.md)
- [What BuildX Studio is](https://docs.buildx.pro/docs/studio/overview.md)