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Pulse Q&A

Pulse Q&A is the surface where you ask a project question in plain English and get an answer cited to its sources. Pulse answers only from the project's indexed records, such as RFIs, meetings, daily logs, submittals and change orders, cites every claim to its exact source, and says it has no evidence instead of guessing.

By Trueleveler Editorial

Updated September 30, 2026

What does Pulse Q&A show?

Pulse Q&A is the RAG-cited Q&A surface. Empty state shows a prompt + six suggested questions tuned to the project's open risks. Answer state has two columns: the answer on the left with inline [n] chips, and a source panel on the right listing every cited chunk with its kind label (RFI / Meeting / Spec / …) and a verbatim quote. Click any [n] in the answer to scroll the source panel to that source and flash it amber for 1.5 seconds.

Does Pulse ever guess an answer?

No. Every claim Pulse makes points back to a source artifact + a span inside that artifact. No floating sentences. If the model can't find evidence, it says I don't have evidence for that on this project — never guesses. Refusal mode is better than a hallucination.

How does Pulse retrieve its answers?

Every project artifact (RFIs, meetings, daily logs, submittals, COs, emails, tasks, punch items) is chunked at the right granularity per source kind and indexed at upload — Gemini's gemini-embedding-001 produces 1536-dim vectors stored in pgvector. At query time, the question embeds into the same space; we run hybrid retrieval (semantic cosine + BM25 over description, fused by reciprocal-rank) via a single Postgres function. Then Claude Sonnet composes the answer with mandatory citation tokens.

Every control

Ask Pulse

Plain-English question. ⌘+Enter to send, Esc to clear.

Suggested questions

Six prompts the engine generates from the project's open risks.

[n] citation chip

Click any inline citation — scrolls the right rail to source [n] and flashes it amber.

Source card

Right-rail card per cited source: kind chip (RFI / Meeting / …), source label, verbatim quote, confidence %.

↻ Reindex project

Walks every artifact and rebuilds the chunk index. Run after large data imports or model upgrades. Rate-limited.

New thread

Clears the current conversation and returns to the empty state.

Time + permission awareness

Every chunk has a valid_at timestamp; if a question is time-sensitive ("what's the latest on RFI 042"), the retriever filters to current chunks. Owner / sub viewers see a filtered chunk set — chunks tagged with stricter visibility never surface to readers who don't have access. Every query + answer + citations is written to the audit log.