Ask answers questions about an existing analysis, grounded against the same set of allowed numbers as the written thesis. An answer that would cite a figure the read never computed is refused rather than filled in. Each analysis carries a number of free follow-ups before one costs a daily credit.
The grounding contract
Every answer is checked against the measurements the analysis actually produced. A model asked a question it cannot answer from those numbers will reliably invent one that sounds right, and on a trading tool an invented level is indistinguishable from a measured one at the moment it matters.
So the check runs after generation and before display. An answer that fails it is refused, and the refusal names the missing measurement rather than apologising vaguely. A refusal that tells you what was not computed is more useful than a confident sentence you cannot audit.
The follow-up allowance
Each read carries 3 free follow-ups on the free tier and 10 on a paid one. Past those, a follow-up spends one of the ordinary daily analysis credits — the same unit, arriving a different way, rather than a second currency to keep track of.
Conversation limits
The conversation is bounded on three axes: how many turns are carried, how much of each prior answer is retained, and how much total text is sent with a question. The bounds exist so a long conversation cannot quietly grow into an expensive one, and so the model is never handed a context so large that the read itself stops being the dominant input.
Refunds
If no provider generated anything at all, the unit is refunded server-side. The panel then reports whether the allowance actually moved, rather than leaving you to work it out from the chip — a silent refund and a silent charge look identical from the outside.
Frequently asked
- Why did Ask refuse to answer instead of giving me a number?
- Because the figure it would have cited was not computed by that read. Ask is grounded against the analysis’s own measurements, and a refusal naming the missing measurement is the product working rather than failing.
- How many follow-up questions do I get on one read?
- 3 on the free tier and 10 on a paid plan, per analysis. Beyond that a follow-up spends one ordinary daily analysis credit rather than introducing a separate allowance.
Updated Sep 1, 2026