Assistant
Nomic Assistant solves tasks across your project data. Context gives it capabilities, enabling it to understand your firm and project knowledge to deliver accurate, cited answers.
How Assistant Works
Assistant searches, understands, and reasons over your project data to deliver accurate, cited answers. Powered by domain-specific models—Nomic Embeddings for semantic search and Parse models for file understanding—Assistant finds the information you need across files, drawings, and documentation. Give it context through integrations or direct uploads, and it will deliver answers grounded in your project data.
Assistant Controls
The input bar includes controls that adjust how Assistant processes your request:
- Model picker — Choose which model Assistant uses for the conversation. Different models offer different tradeoffs between speed and depth of reasoning. We default to models that give the best balance of speed and accuracy for most tasks.
- Deep Research — Toggle on to have Assistant perform a more thorough investigation across your files before answering. Deep Research takes longer but produces more comprehensive, well-sourced results — best suited for complex questions that span multiple documents.
Context
Assistant's capabilities come from the context it has access to. Context is scoped per session and can come from two places: the project a session belongs to, and files attached directly to the session.
Project Context
When you start a conversation from within a project, Assistant automatically has access to all files and tags attached to that project. This includes files synced from external integrations like SharePoint, Egnyte, ACC, and Bentley, as well as files uploaded directly.
Attaching Files to a Session
Use the Add menu in the Assistant input bar to attach additional files to the current session:
- Existing files — Browse and select files already in Nomic, including files from connected integrations and previously uploaded documents
- New uploads — Upload files directly from your computer for immediate use in the conversation
- Images — Attach images to give Assistant visual context, useful for reviewing drawings, photos, or any visual material
Permissions
Assistant can only access files that you have permission to view. If a project or folder contains files you don't have access to, Assistant will not see them or know they exist. This applies to files synced from external integrations like SharePoint and Egnyte — Assistant respects the same permission boundaries as the source system.
Tool Calls
Assistant has access to a set of tool calls that enable it to interact with your project data and solve tasks. These tools allow Assistant to search, read, and navigate your files and integrations:
Citations
Assistant grounds its answers in your project data and cites the sources it used. Citations appear as clickable references in Assistant's messages, linking back to the specific file and page where the information was found. This lets you verify answers directly against the original source material.
When Assistant uses multiple files to answer a question, each claim is cited independently — so you can trace every part of the response back to its source.
Conversations
Past conversations are listed in the sidebar and can be reopened or continued at any time. Conversations started from within a project also appear on the project page.
To share a conversation, copy its link and send it to a teammate. Shared conversations are read-only — recipients can view the full history but cannot edit or continue the session.
Files attached to a shared conversation are not visible to viewers who don't have access to them. However, any descriptions, quotes, or excerpts from those files that appear in Assistant's messages will still be visible in the conversation history.