> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.intellikon.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Vera overview

> What Vera does, how it is laid out, and who can do what.

Vera lets you build chatbots that answer questions from your own material. You give each chatbot its knowledge: documents, web pages and videos. When someone asks a question, the chatbot looks for the answer in that knowledge and replies with the sources it used. Vera keeps every conversation, shows you which questions went unanswered, and lets you fix answers so the next person gets a better one.

Vera does not search the internet or answer from general knowledge. A chatbot only knows what you have given it.

## Not knowing is part of the design

When a chatbot cannot find the answer in its knowledge, it says it does not have information on that, instead of guessing. This is intended behaviour, and a sign that you can trust the answers it does give. When nothing in its knowledge matches the question, Vera keeps the question, so you can see what your knowledge is missing and add it.

## How Vera is laid out

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/intellikon-ai-ltd/C7Pz0tg3xUt34WNF/images/vera/overview.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=C7Pz0tg3xUt34WNF&q=85&s=806946c488194cf52c8113f47c9d5f9c" alt="The top of the Vera dashboard, with the period and account menus and the Active chatbots and Sessions cards." width="1096" height="1320" data-path="images/vera/overview.png" />
</Frame>

| Area      | What you do there                                                               |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Dashboard | See activity, answered rate and knowledge freshness across all your chatbots.   |
| Chatbots  | Create chatbots, change their settings, try them out and improve their answers. |
| Knowledge | See and manage the sources behind every chatbot in one list.                    |
| Sessions  | Read conversations and rate the answers.                                        |
| Analytics | Compare chatbots and look closely at one of them.                               |
| Accounts  | See how many conversations came from each of your customer accounts.            |

## Key ideas

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Chatbot" icon="bot">Answers questions only from the knowledge you give it.</Card>
  <Card title="Knowledge source" icon="book-open">A file, web page or video a chatbot can answer from.</Card>
  <Card title="Session" icon="message-square">One conversation with a chatbot, from the first question to the last.</Card>
  <Card title="Unanswered question" icon="circle-question-mark">A question the chatbot could not answer from its knowledge.</Card>
  <Card title="Curated answer" icon="message-square-quote">An answer you write yourself, given word for word when the same question comes in.</Card>
  <Card title="Stale source" icon="clock">A source that has not been read again for more than 90 days.</Card>
</CardGroup>

## A chatbot has three states

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Draft" icon="pencil-line">Just created, and not answering anyone yet.</Card>
  <Card title="Active" icon="power">Turned on and answering questions.</Card>
  <Card title="Inactive" icon="power-off">Can be turned on again at any time.</Card>
</CardGroup>

## A source moves through four states

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Pending" icon="hourglass">Added and waiting to be read.</Card>
  <Card title="Processing" icon="loader">Vera is reading it.</Card>
  <Card title="Ready" icon="circle-check">The chatbot can answer from it.</Card>
  <Card title="Failed" icon="circle-alert">Vera could not read it, and you can try again.</Card>
</CardGroup>

## Who can do what

| Task                                                                          | Tenant Owner | Workspace Admin | Workspace Member |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | --------------- | ---------------- |
| See the dashboard, sessions and analytics                                     | Yes          | Yes             | Yes              |
| Create a chatbot and change its settings                                      | Yes          | Yes             | Yes              |
| Add and remove knowledge sources                                              | Yes          | Yes             | Yes              |
| Rate answers and summarise conversations                                      | Yes          | Yes             | Yes              |
| Export conversations                                                          | Yes          | Yes             | Yes              |
| See recommendations on the dashboard                                          | Yes          | Yes             | No               |
| Use the **Training** tab: chatbot health, flagged answers and curated answers | Yes          | Yes             | No               |

Account Admins and Users do not use Vera.

## Where to start

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Create a chatbot" icon="bot" href="/products/vera/chatbots">Set one up and turn it on.</Card>
  <Card title="Give it knowledge" icon="book-open" href="/products/vera/knowledge">Add the files, pages and videos it answers from.</Card>
  <Card title="Read conversations" icon="message-square" href="/products/vera/sessions">See what people asked and how the chatbot replied.</Card>
  <Card title="Improve answers" icon="sparkles" href="/products/vera/training">Fix answers and fill the gaps in its knowledge.</Card>
  <Card title="See how they are doing" icon="chart-no-axes-column" href="/products/vera/reports">Follow activity, answered rate and unanswered questions.</Card>
</CardGroup>

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</CardGroup>
