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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.

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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 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.