# Asking questions across transcripts, resumes and notes

> Ask a question in OpenATS and get an answer drawn from every transcript, resume and note, with the candidates it came from cited.

Ask a question like “Who has led a design system migration?” and OpenATS answers from your workspace’s transcripts, resumes and notes, citing each candidate it drew on under **Sources**. In OpenATS Cloud it’s **Ask Scout**: on the dashboard, in the **Insights** tab of search, on a candidate’s profile, and in Slack.

*Search & AI · Last updated 2026-11-11*

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## Where to ask

- **Dashboard:** the **Ask Scout** card.
- **AI search:** the **Insights** tab next to **Results** researches and explains the people you found.
- **A candidate’s profile:** **Ask Scout** in the header answers from that one person’s resume, transcripts and notes.
- **Scout’s panel**, in the corner of every page.
- **Slack:** message the OpenATS bot, or @mention it. See [Slack](https://openats.ai/docs/integrations/slack).

## How answers work

OpenATS finds the passages that match your question, and the answer is written from those passages only. Every claim cites where it came from: **Sources** lists each one with the candidate, the document and a snippet, so you can check it.

Answers only draw on what you can see. In a shared Slack conversation, the bot answers only from what everyone in it may see.

> **Important:** Questions about who someone is are refused before anything is searched: “OpenATS doesn’t answer questions about age, health or disability, family, religion, origin, citizenship or visas, pay history, criminal history, or anything that stands in for one. Ask about skills, experience or the work instead.”

> **Note:** Admins, managers and team members can ask. Limited members and interviewers see **Ask isn’t available for your role.**

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Still need help? Write to the OpenATS team at https://openats.ai/support (or support@b150.ai). We reply by email.

Source: https://openats.ai/docs/search-and-ai/ask
OpenATS help center: https://openats.ai/docs