Thinking Mode

An AI research agent that works through your library step by step

What is Thinking Mode?

Thinking Mode turns chat into a research agent. Instead of answering from a single search, it works through your library the way a careful researcher would — and you watch it happen live:

1. It analyzes your question and plans an approach

2. It searches your documents — and refines its queries based on what comes back

3. When semantic search isn't enough, it looks for exact matches (names, numbers, quotes) or reads entire documents

4. It can browse your library by filename to locate a document you described

5. When it has solid evidence, it writes the answer with precise citations

The number of steps adapts to the question: a simple lookup finishes in seconds, while a hard cross-document question gets several rounds of research.

Watch it think

While it works, a live panel shows every step — its reasoning, the exact searches it runs, and what it found:

• Analyzing your question…

• Searching: "brand growth penetration"

• Exact match: "09.09.2025"

• Reading a full document…

• Reviewing 31 passages…

• Writing your answer…

When the answer starts, the panel collapses to a single line — "Thought for 45s" — and you can click it anytime to review the full reasoning trail.

Works across languages

Thinking Mode searches in the language of your documents, not just the language of your question. Ask in German about a Ukrainian document (or in English about a Polish one) and it will reformulate its searches in the right language to find the answer.

Precise citations

Answers cite sources inline with [N] markers. Clicking a citation navigates to the exact place the evidence came from — the PDF page, or the exact timestamp in an audio/video recording, which starts playing from that moment.

Reply to a fragment

Select any part of an answer and click Reply — the fragment attaches to your next message as a quote, so the assistant knows exactly which part you're asking about.

When to use it

• Questions spanning multiple documents or languages

• "Summarize document X" — it reads the whole document, not just fragments

• Finding exact facts: dates, names, figures, specific quotes

• Analysis and comparison tasks where a quick search would miss context

How to enable it

Thinking Mode is the default for library chat (Chat All). Use the mode selector in the chat input to switch to Fast Mode when you just need a quick lookup.

Fast Mode vs Thinking Mode

Feature	Fast Mode	Thinking Mode
Speed	Instant	Seconds to a few minutes — adapts to the question
Search depth	Single pass	Iterative: search, refine, exact-match, read full documents
Languages	Question language	Searches in your documents' languages
Reasoning	Hidden	Live step-by-step panel, reviewable afterwards
Best for	Quick lookups	Deep research, summaries, hard questions

Plan requirement: Thinking Mode is available on Pro and Team plans. Because it runs multiple rounds of research per question, each Thinking Mode question counts as 5 queries toward your monthly quota.

Thinking Mode answers only from your library. If your documents don't cover a topic, it says so and points to the closest related material — it won't improvise an answer from general knowledge.