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.

Context

Assistant's capabilities come from the context it has access to. Nomic provides pre-built integrations that connect Assistant to your firm and project data sources:

Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)

Sync ACC projects to give Assistant access to drawings, specifications, and project documentation

Bentley ProjectWise

Sync Bentley projects to give Assistant access to drawings, specifications, and project documentation

SharePoint

Connect SharePoint sites and document libraries to access project documents, specifications, and historical files

Egnyte

Egnyte serves as a backbone for drawings and project files. Sync files and folders from Egnyte to ground Assistant in your document management system

Each integration provides Assistant with different types of context:

• Project delivery software (ACC, Bentley) automatically syncs active project files and drawings
• File storage systems (SharePoint, Egnyte) connect to your document management systems and historical project data

You can also directly upload context like folders and files to the Assistant, giving it immediate access to specific project data without requiring an integration setup.

Scoping Context

There are many ways to scope context in Assistant:

• Directly uploading files or images - Upload files or images directly to the Assistant bar for immediate use
• Setting context to tagged files - Set the context to a specific set of tagged files from a file system integration (SharePoint or Egnyte)

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:

Tool Call	Description
Search Files	Finds relevant files and content across your project data using Nomic Embeddings for semantic search.
Read Page	Extracts and understands content from files using Parse models to gather context for answering questions.
Render Page	Directly places page pixels into a vision language model for visual understanding of drawings and documents.
List Directory	Explores available files and directories to locate the right information needed to solve your task.

Getting Started

To start using Assistant:

1. Provide context - Give Assistant access to your project data by either:
   • Setting up integrations - Connect integrations to sync project files automatically. See the Integrations overview for setup instructions.
   • Uploading files directly - Upload folders and files directly to Assistant for immediate access to specific project data
2. Ask questions - Start asking questions or requesting tasks. Assistant will search, understand, and reason over your project data to deliver answers.

For detailed setup instructions, see the Quickstart guide or visit the Admin section to configure integrations.