Getting started

Ask Studio

Say what you want done, or give it a proposal, and it does it on the screen you are on.

Press the sparkle in the top bar, or ⌘ J (Ctrl J on Windows), and say what you want: “Add a Design phase to Meridian website for ₹50,000”, “dark mode kar do”, “What’s waiting on clients?”. It works on the screen you are on, so “add a phase here” needs no name. Type a sentence in ⌘ K search and Ask Studio is the first row: press Enter to send it. Simple commands (“dark mode”, “open inbox”, “billing kholo”) happen at once and do not count against your daily messages.

Describe a project and ask for its phases (“a school website with AI features, include every phase it needs”) and it writes the whole plan at once: phases with their features, and no prices unless you gave them. Undo takes it all back.

Ask what to charge (“what should I charge for this project?”) and it suggests a price for each draft phase, from what you charged for phases like them before and typical rates for Indian agencies, with a reason for each. Nothing changes until you press Apply; Undo puts the old prices back, and you can change any price yourself after.

It can do what you can do in Studio, with your role: a contractor’s Ask Studio sees no prices, because Studio never shows them one.

When you open it, its suggestions come from where things stand: the plan to send, the version to share, the fixes to send for checking, the clients waiting more than three days.

Help where you work

Some screens have Ask Studio’s help built in, behind a sparkle button, so you never have to open the panel for them. On a review, Group puts the open comments into the changes they ask for, new work first, each with how to fix it and whether your plan covers it: merge the repeats in one press, and send the new work to Add to plan, where Name it with Ask Studio names it for your client and says why it is extra.

Open a comment and Suggest replies drafts three; pick one and it fills the reply box for you to change and send. When you share a version, Write it with Ask Studio drafts the note from what the version fixed. On an empty plan, say what the work is and Draft the plan writes its phases and features for you to use or draft again, never its prices. On a phase, Suggest features lists what it still needs, to add one at a time or all together. Before you send a plan, Check the plan first finds features too vague to approve and phases most plans have that yours lacks, and, if you see prices, shows what you charged for phases like these before, from your own projects.

Each is a suggestion: nothing changes or goes to your client until you press the screen’s own button. They use the same daily allowance as the chat, and opening something you already checked costs nothing.

Notes it keeps in mind

Owners and admins can give Ask Studio notes for the whole team in Settings › Ask Studio (“We always add a Testing phase”, “Write to clients in Hinglish”), or just say “remember that…”. It follows them in every chat and suggestion, up to twenty notes. Remove one there, or say “forget the note about…”; both can be undone.

You see everything it does

Each change shows as a card with Undo, and the screen behind updates; a reply that made several changes has Undo all. Anything that reaches your client — sending the plan, sharing a version, a reply, an addition, an invitation — waits on a card that shows exactly what will go out and to whom, and nothing is sent until you press Send.

When something is missing or a name matches two things, it asks one short question. It never makes up an email address, and never sets a price you did not write or apply: prices are read from what you wrote, suggested prices wait for Apply, and totals are added up by Studio.

It stays on Studio

Ask Studio helps with your work in Studio and nothing else: your projects, clients, plans, reviews, team and settings, how Studio works, and writing things for your clients. Ask it about anything else and it says so, with a few things it can do instead. How-to answers come from these help articles, and it shows which one.

A few things you do yourself, for your safety: your password, signing out other devices, deleting your account or the workspace, and paying. Ask for one and it opens the right screen.

How it stays safe

Your clients’ comments and the documents you give it are read as information, never as instructions. If a comment or a document tries to tell Ask Studio what to do, it ignores it and tells you. After reading something your client wrote, it asks you before changing anything, with Apply on a card, and anything that reaches a client still waits for Send.

It will not share how it is set up, and it will not act as anything other than Ask Studio. It can only do what your role allows.

From a proposal to a plan

Drop a proposal (PDF or Word, up to 10 MB) on the panel, attach it with the clip, or use Import a proposal on New project, on an empty plan or in a project’s ⋮ menu; add a note if you like and send. Studio reads it, lists the phases, features and prices it found and what it could not, and Create draft plan makes the draft. From New project it becomes a new project. From a project it goes into that project: an empty plan is filled; a plan with phases asks whether to add them as new phases (any the plan already has are left out), replace the draft, or make a new project. A plan your client has seen is never replaced: new phases go to them as an addition. Undo puts the plan back as it was. Anything it was unsure of is marked Check this until you edit it or press Looks right. Nothing is sent: you read the plan and press Send plan as always.

What it keeps

Your conversations are yours alone (not even an owner can read a teammate’s) and are kept for thirty days under History. A document’s file is deleted once it is read. Everything it changed stays in Activity and the audit log under your name, marked “with Ask Studio”. Studio also keeps, without your words: how much you used it (25 months, for billing and planning), a note of anything it declined or ignored (400 days, for security), and your thumbs up or down (400 days, to make it better). See the Privacy page for what is sent to our AI provider.

Each plan has a daily allowance, per person in each workspace: Free, 5 messages and 1 proposal a day; Plus, 15 and 3, with 20 messages for the whole team; Pro, 25 and 5, with 50 for the team. The team also shares one allowance for the work those messages take. Long requests, where Studio reads and changes a lot, use more of the day’s allowance than a quick question. Nothing is said until 80% is used; then the panel shows what is left, and Settings › Usage shows it any time. It all starts again at 5:30 am India time. What you use in one workspace does not count in another.