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Prophecy’s AI chat is a conversational assistant built for city staff. You type a question or request in plain language and Prophecy searches your city’s records, municipal code, Data Vault files, past conversations, and the web to produce a cited answer. Every claim links to a numbered source so you can verify it in one click.

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Starting a conversation

Open Chat from the sidebar. Each session starts fresh in its own conversation. Type your question in the input box and press Enter or click the send button. To start a new conversation at any time, click New Chat at the top of the sidebar. Previous conversations are listed below and remain searchable.

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Attaching files to a message

You can attach files directly to a message so Prophecy can read and reference them alongside your city’s documents.
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Click the paperclip icon

Click the attachment icon in the message input bar.
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Select your files

Choose one or more files from your computer. You can also drag and drop files into the input area.
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Send your message

Type your question or instruction and send. Prophecy reads the attached files and incorporates them into its response.
Supported file types: PDF, DOCX, DOC, XLSX, XLS, PPTX, PPT, TXT, CSV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WEBP Size limits:
  • Images: 20 MB per file
  • All other files: no individual file size limit within the batch
  • Total batch size: 1 GB across all files in a single message
  • Maximum files per message: 100
Files you attach to a chat message are used only within that conversation. They are not added to the Data Vault or shared with other team members.

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How Prophecy searches

When you send a message, Prophecy determines which sources to query based on your question. It can search across:
  • Meeting documents — agendas, minutes, staff reports, and attachments from your city’s meetings
  • Municipal code — local ordinances, zoning codes, and codified regulations
  • Data Vault — internal files your city has uploaded (policies, procedures, reference documents)
  • Past chats — previous conversations, so you can pick up where you left off
  • Web — public government sources and peer municipalities for benchmarking
Prophecy queries these sources in parallel and synthesizes the results into a single, coherent response.

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Citations and source documents

Every factual claim in a Prophecy response includes an inline citation badge (for example [1]). Click any badge to open the source document at the exact location Prophecy referenced, with the relevant passage highlighted.
Use citations to verify findings before including them in official reports or recommendations. Clicking a citation opens the original document so you can read the full context.

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Stopping a response

If a response is taking too long or went in the wrong direction, click the Stop button (the square icon in the input bar) to cancel it immediately. You can then refine your question and try again.

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Feedback on responses

After any AI response you can rate it with a thumbs up or thumbs down.
  • Thumbs up — marks the response as helpful
  • Thumbs down — opens a feedback form where you can tag what was wrong (incorrect information, missing information, incorrect source, incomplete response) and add a note
Your feedback helps improve Prophecy over time.

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Managing your chats

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Renaming a chat

By default, Prophecy names each conversation automatically. To rename it:
  1. Hover over the chat in the sidebar.
  2. Click the menu icon that appears.
  3. Select Rename and enter a new title.

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Deleting a chat

  1. Hover over the chat in the sidebar.
  2. Click the menu icon.
  3. Select Delete and confirm.
Deleting a chat is permanent. Deleted conversations cannot be recovered.

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Reasoning modes

Prophecy offers three reasoning modes you can select before sending a message:
Prophecy automatically selects the best approach based on your query. This is the default and works well for most tasks.
To change the mode, click the mode selector in the input bar before sending your message.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. You can attach up to 100 files per message, as long as the total size does not exceed 1 GB. Images must each be under 20 MB.
Each chat is independent by default. However, Prophecy can reference your past conversations when you explicitly ask it to — for example, “pick up where we left off last week.” It uses a memory system to carry important context across sessions when you’ve saved information there.
Yes. Use the filter bar above the input to restrict which sources Prophecy searches — for example, limit results to meeting documents or the Data Vault only.
Prophecy only cites what it can verify in your city’s indexed documents. If a document hasn’t been processed yet, or the information isn’t in the configured sources, Prophecy will say so rather than guess.