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What the Chatbot Can and Cannot Do

What AI Chat Can Do​

AI Chat helps you work faster with the data that is already available to you in Octostar. It can:

  • Retrieve and summarize indexed content in your Workspace.
  • Use it to summarize documents, extract key facts, and highlight relevant passages.
  • Analyze enriched evidence outputs.
  • It can use transcripts, extracted text (for example OCR), metadata, and other structured annotations created during ingestion and processing.
  • Connect structured data across the platform.
  • It can reason over Record, Concept, and Relationship data to explain how entities relate and where supporting evidence appears.
  • Perform semantic retrieval.
  • It can retrieve relevant content using keyword search and vector search (embeddings), which helps when the wording varies across sources.
  • Provide traceable answers.
  • It can reference the source documents and records used to generate the answer, so you can open and verify the underlying evidence.
  • Use enabled tools when configured.
  • If your deployment supports agent workflows, AI Chat can use available tools (for example launching an app or preparing an export) within the limits of your permissions. Example prompts:
  • “Summarize all WhatsApp conversations related to luxury vehicle sales and list recurring sellers. Provide citations.”
  • “How is this Record connected to the suspect’s phone number? Show the Relationship path and cite sources.”
  • “List all IBANs and phone numbers mentioned in these documents, grouped by file.”

What AI Chat cannot do​

AI Chat operates within strict constraints. It cannot:

  • Access systems that are not integrated or enabled.
  • If a database, external service, or workspace content is not connected to Octostar, AI Chat cannot retrieve it.
  • Override permissions.
  • It cannot access content you do not have permission to open. If you cannot open a file or record, AI Chat should not expose it.
  • Guarantee exact statistical counts across large datasets.
  • It answers using retrieved context. It may miss items that were not retrieved, and it should not be treated as a reliable counting engine for totals unless you can verify the full set.
  • Replace validation or legal review.
  • It does not replace investigative judgment, chain-of-custody practices, or formal legal review.
  • Analyze content that is not ingested and indexed.

Your responsibility​

You remain responsible for the final interpretation and use of results. For critical findings:

  • Ask for citations.
  • Open the referenced documents or Records.
  • Confirm names, dates, amounts, and identifiers directly in the source.
  • Document how you validated the conclusion before acting on it.