# Why doesn’t the AI Assistant answer my questions, e.g. about my Gmail or Drive data?

The AI Assistant uses a method called RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to answer your questions. This means it first searches your data for documents similar to your question, then uses those results to generate an answer.

# What works well

You’ll get good answers when asking about specific documents or topics. For example:

• “Summarize my flight confirmation email”

• “What’s the main point of this Google Doc?”

• “What’s the latest version of the meeting notes?”

These questions work because the assistant can find the right documents, then summarize or explain them.

# What doesn’t work (yet)

Questions that require reasoning, sorting or filtering aren’t supported yet. For example:

• “When was my last email from Jane?”

• “What’s the most recent document I edited?”

• “How many emails mention the budget?”

These types of questions need the assistant to do more than just summarize content — they need it to analyze and compare results. That’s something we’re working on, but it’s not available today.