Ask OpenFeather: overview

1. 1Your request is classified — conversational, private-data, web-research, location, product-help or a refusal-class request.
2. 2A deterministic planner decides which sources are required and reserves the credit cost before any provider call is made.
3. 3Authorised retrieval runs: connected integrations, workspace memory, and web research only when the request needs current external information.
4. 4OpenFeather synthesises an answer and streams it to the page.
5. 5Usage is settled against the reservation, and the conversation is persisted with its sources.

• Connected integrations, limited to the services inside each authorised connection.
• The current conversation, plus scoped memory for the active workspace and account.
• Public web results, only when the request needs current or external information.
• Authorised workspace records such as team context, goals and authorised analytics.

Ask never reads another user, another workspace, or provider credentials, and it never queries the database directly.

A product-help question uses public first-party documentation rather than scanning connected services. Advice can use information you supply without a connected account; generating an AI answer still calls a model provider.

You can request an inline WorkMap: a proposed task plan with owners, dependencies, milestones and budget constraints. For example, ask for a two-week plan using an explicitly stated one-time budget. Your current request supplies the constraints; an older saved budget does not authorize new spending.

• Model / thinking mode — Core, Pro and Deep Strategy change answer depth and credit cost. See Credits and usage.
• Plugin or channel selector — biases the request toward a chosen connected source.
• New conversation — clears conversation context so the next question starts fresh.
• Stop control — available while a response streams; it cancels the run and marks the turn cancelled.

Specific questions produce specific answers. Compare:

"Tell me about marketing"          vague — OpenFeather must ask what you mean
"Summarise my Q3 sales by channel"     specific, answerable, verifiable
"What changed in this account's spend since June?"   private data, needs a connection

• An empty answer does not mean the source has no data. It usually means the request was not authorised, the account was wrong, or the date range excluded it.
• Generated analysis is interpretation, not evidence. Check citations for anything important.
• Some capabilities depend on the provider, the granted permissions and your plan.