Ask iManage empowers knowledge professionals to unlock the full potential of their document repository by enabling natural language searches directly within iManage Work 10. Harnessing advanced AI, Ask iManage swiftly locates, reads, and synthesizes information from relevant documents, quickly delivering cited, trustworthy answers. This seamless process eliminates directionless browsing or the need to move files outside the secure DMS, ensuring that users transition rapidly from question to actionable insight.

Key features

Natural language search: Search using plain, everyday language - just as with colleagues - and get fast, cited answers without relying on keywords, folder paths, or document locations. This removes the need to navigate search tools or refine queries, turning questions into precise, source‑linked results.

Refine results: Use conversational follow‑up prompts to dig deeper into documents and zero in on what matters most—without restarting a search..

• Change criteria of the search if results alter the path forward.
• Add or remove documents from the result set to narrow the search.
• Open results in a table view to continue the workflow

Identify: Search specific clauses, answers, or data points verbatim from documents directly in the DMS, empowering users to retrieve exactly what they need without manually uploading or submitting documents to an external resource. For example:

• Retrieving specific dates or an obligation from a policy file.
• Grabbing a critical data point from a vendor agreement.

Analyze: Assess a document’s content to determine compliance, compare positions, and surface key differences with AI‑powered redline analysis, making it easy to quickly identify what changed between versions. For example:

• Spotting revisions between contract drafts.
• Checking whether updated language meets compliance requirements.
• Comparing negotiation positions across document versions.

Ask across: Analyze multiple documents using the same set of questions with answers compiled into a clear, comparative table for a structured, side‑by‑side view, enabling easy identification of patterns, differences, and vital insights. For example:

• Reviewing confidentiality terms across multiple NDAs.
• Comparing fee structures across engagement letters.
• Assessing liability limits across vendor agreements.

Summarize: Quickly distill a document’s key position into a high‑level overview, saving time by eliminating the need to read deeply just to understand the essentials. For example:

• Getting a fast overview of a long agreement before a meeting.
• Summarizing a regulatory filing for quick team alignment.
• Creating a concise brief of a case file for onboarding or handoff.

Guided actions such as overview, extract, summarize, analyze, and chronology retrieve precise, structured results with a single click, eliminating the need to be prompt experts and going straight to the insights.