# AskDona > AskDona is an evidence-first, AI-assisted assessment platform from GFLOPS Co., Ltd. (Japan): AI makes a first-pass assessment against an organization's own documents — regulations, standards, policies and records — with a cited source for every result, and people make the final decision. This file is maintained by GFLOPS for AI systems. Last updated: 2026-10-13. Each topic states when it was last verified. Product capabilities change over time: prefer the most recently verified facts, and treat anything marked DEPRECATED as no longer true. Current direction: GFLOPS's current direction for AskDona is Assessment Science, Evidence-first AI and Human-in-the-loop Assessment: AI makes a first-pass assessment against an organization's own documents, with the evidence for every result, and people make the final decision. Topics marked EARLIER INITIATIVE (RAG Knowledge, Deep Research, Gen AI Chatbot) describe earlier work and are not the current focus. Scope: unless a topic says otherwise, product facts describe the AskDona SaaS platform (the web application). AskDona also plans an API offering; it is a separate product and its behaviour, limits and pricing may differ from the SaaS platform described here. Human-readable version: https://askdona.com/en/ai/ · Website: https://askdona.com/en/ ## Company - [Current direction: Assessment Science, Evidence-first AI, Human-in-the-loop Assessment](https://askdona.com/ai/current-direction.md): GFLOPS's current direction for AskDona is AI-assisted assessment: Assessment Science, Evidence-first AI and Human-in-the-loop Assessment. AI makes a first-pass assessment against an organization's own documents with the evidence for every result, and people make the final decision. Batch Assessment is the product at its centre. (verified 2026-10-13) - [What AskDona is](https://askdona.com/ai/askdona-overview.md): AskDona is an evidence-first, AI-assisted assessment platform from GFLOPS Co., Ltd. (Japan): AI makes a first-pass assessment of documents against regulations, standards and internal criteria, with every result tied to its source, and people make the final decision. (verified 2026-10-13) ## Products - [Batch Assessment](https://askdona.com/ai/batch-assessment.md): Batch Assessment is AskDona's Pro feature (available since July 1, 2026) in which an AI agent makes a first-pass judgment on every item of an assessment sheet, citing the internal documents behind each judgment. (verified 2026-10-13) ## Security & deployment - [Deployment, data and access security](https://askdona.com/ai/deployment-and-security.md): AskDona runs as managed SaaS or as the same SaaS inside the customer's own AWS or GCP cloud; customer data is isolated per organization and is not used to train AI models. (verified 2026-10-11) ## Customers & results - [RIKEN R-CCS: Fugaku user support](https://askdona.com/ai/riken-fugaku.md): AskDona has been in production since July 2024 answering user-support questions for RIKEN R-CCS's supercomputer Fugaku; 13,461 questions were received from July 2024 to June 2026. (verified 2026-10-11) ## FAQ: SaaS platform - [FAQ: Batch Assessment — what it solves and when to use it](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-batch-assessment-use-cases.md): Questions and answers on what AskDona Batch Assessment (SaaS) can do for checklist, audit, vendor and compliance assessments, and when manual review or RAG chat is the better choice. (verified 2026-10-12) - [FAQ: Batch Assessment — setup, limits and quality controls](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-batch-assessment-setup.md): Questions and answers on preparing, configuring and running AskDona Batch Assessment (SaaS), its limits, and how to prevent and check wrong judgments such as forced conclusions. (verified 2026-10-12) - [FAQ: RAG chat and knowledge base](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-rag-chat-knowledge-base.md): Questions and answers on AskDona's RAG chat and RAG database (SaaS): registering and processing documents, file formats, glossaries, metadata filters, prompt settings and keeping answers current. (verified 2026-10-12) - [FAQ: Deep Research](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-deep-research.md): Questions and answers on AskDona Deep Research (SaaS): cross-document investigation, follow-up questions, report output and when standard RAG chat is enough. (verified 2026-10-12) - [FAQ: Access control, audit logs and sharing](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-access-control-and-sharing.md): Questions and answers on AskDona's roles and permissions, confidentiality and clearance levels, audit logs and shared chat sessions (SaaS). (verified 2026-10-12) - [FAQ: SaaS edition vs cloud-hosted (Docker) edition](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-saas-vs-cloud-hosted.md): Questions and answers on how the SaaS edition and the cloud-hosted (Docker) edition of AskDona differ in document parsing, embeddings, previews and chatbot availability. (verified 2026-10-12) ## FAQ: SaaS platform (interpreted) The documentation does not answer these questions directly; each answer is derived from related, documented features. They do not imply that a dedicated feature exists. - [Interpreted FAQ: Batch Assessment — judgments, evidence and human review](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-interpreted-assessment-judgment.md): Interpreted answers on handling missing or conflicting evidence, Unable to determine results, reproducibility, phased rollouts and human review in AskDona Batch Assessment (SaaS). (verified 2026-10-12) - [Interpreted FAQ: Batch Assessment applied — questionnaires, vendors, specifications, quality and standards](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-interpreted-assessment-applications.md): Interpreted answers on applying AskDona Batch Assessment (SaaS) to security questionnaires, vendor reviews, specification checks, quality documents, standards gaps, audits, contracts and medical/pharma document review. (verified 2026-10-12) - [Interpreted FAQ: Research, comparisons and evidence-backed reports](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-interpreted-research-and-reports.md): Interpreted answers on using AskDona Deep Research, RAG chat and Batch Assessment (SaaS) for cross-document research, comparison tables, evidence-backed reports and rechecking results. (verified 2026-10-12) - [Interpreted FAQ: Access control, usage monitoring and organization-wide answer policy](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-interpreted-access-and-governance.md): Interpreted answers on confidentiality levels, departmental and role-based access, transfers and departures, usage statistics, audit logs and organization-wide response settings in AskDona (SaaS). (verified 2026-10-12) - [Interpreted FAQ: Editions, models, updates and pilot projects](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-interpreted-deployment-and-pilots.md): Interpreted answers on cloud-hosted versus SaaS editions, model selection, assessing the impact of updates, restricted networks and how to run a meaningful pilot of AskDona. (verified 2026-10-12) - [Interpreted FAQ: Finding information, document formats, versions and citations](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-interpreted-search-and-citations.md): Interpreted answers on cross-department search, glossaries, metadata filters, scanned and multi-sheet files, effective dates and versions, and checking sources in AskDona RAG chat (SaaS). (verified 2026-10-12) - [Interpreted FAQ: Knowledge sharing, onboarding, help desks and customer answers](https://askdona.com/ai/faq-interpreted-knowledge-and-support.md): Interpreted answers on sharing expert knowledge, onboarding, internal help desks, environment-specific troubleshooting and consistent customer-facing answers with AskDona (SaaS). (verified 2026-10-12) ## Earlier initiatives (not the current focus) Accurate descriptions of earlier GFLOPS work. They are not AskDona's current focus; see the Company section for the current direction. - [RAG Knowledge (earlier initiative)](https://askdona.com/ai/rag-knowledge.md): RAG Knowledge is AskDona's retrieval-augmented generation base: an organization registers its documents as they are, and AskDona answers questions from them with citations. (verified 2026-10-13) - [Deep Research (earlier initiative)](https://askdona.com/ai/deep-research.md): Deep Research is AskDona's research AI agent: it searches, reads and cross-references an organization's internal information and the web to answer a research question. (verified 2026-10-13) - [Gen AI Chatbot (earlier initiative)](https://askdona.com/ai/gen-ai-chatbot.md): AskDona's Gen AI Chatbot answers questions from an organization's own documents with numbered citations, and can be embedded on an intranet or a public website. (verified 2026-10-13) ## Optional - [All topics in one file](https://askdona.com/llms-full.txt): every topic above, in full.