What is the Brain?
The Brain is Ospri’s AI assistant, powered by GPT-5.3. It has access to your entire organizational context — meeting transcripts, vault documents, CRM data, to-dos, assay catalogs, and external research. Unlike a generic chatbot, the Brain understands your company, your role, and the specific work you’re doing. Every conversation follows a structured approach: the Brain first creates a plan of research steps, then executes them (searching your vault, querying meetings, browsing the web, searching academic papers), and finally synthesizes a comprehensive response with citations.
The Brain welcome screen with greeting and suggestion chips
Two Chat Interfaces
Ospri Brain has two chat interfaces, each suited for different workflows:Simple Chat (Home Page)
The home page (/) provides a streamlined chat experience:
- Quick question-and-answer with the Brain
- File uploads via the paperclip or
/shortcut - Reasoning effort and search depth controls
- Auto-saves conversations to the sidebar
Advanced Chat (/chat)
The dedicated chat page (/chat) adds:
- Plan visualization — See the Brain’s research plan with step-by-step progress
- Document panel — AI-generated reports render in a side panel
- Spreadsheet panel — Generated Excel/CSV files display inline
- Code execution — The Brain can run Python code and generate charts
- Computer Use BETA — Browse live websites, take screenshots, extract data, and interact with web pages
- File analysis — Uploaded files are directly analyzed (attachments are sent to the API)
- Voice mode — Real-time voice conversations
- Meeting context — Persistent meeting context across turns
- Project context — Folder goal and background automatically injected
The Chat Interface
Welcome Screen
When you start a new chat, you see a greeting and four suggestion chips:
Click any chip to instantly start a conversation with that prompt.
Message Display
- Your messages — Right-aligned with a primary color background
- Brain responses — Left-aligned in a card with a border
- Markdown — Full support including headers, bold, italic, lists, tables, and code blocks with syntax highlighting (Prism, VS Code Dark+ theme)
- Generated files — Links to
/storage/v1/object/public/generated-files/render as download buttons with file icons - Attachments — Displayed as clickable chips with filenames; click to download
Input Area
Chat Header
Once a conversation is saved (after first exchange), a header appears:Reasoning Effort
Controls how deeply the AI reasons about your question:Search Depth
Controls how extensively the Brain searches for information:How the Brain Finds Answers
When you ask a question, the Brain follows this structured process:1
Creates a plan
The Brain calls
create_plan() first, choosing a mode (base_analysis, competitive_analysis, or writing) and generating 2-9 research steps depending on complexity.2
Executes research steps
Each step uses a specific tool: knowledge base search, web search, meeting intel, paper search, etc. Progress is streamed in real-time.
3
Searches your Knowledge Base
Semantic search across all Brain-accessible vaults using Pinecone with
text-embedding-3-large (1024 dimensions). Searches up to 5 namespaces simultaneously, returns top 10 results.4
Checks meeting transcripts
Searches recent meeting transcripts for relevant discussions, decisions, and action items with verbatim quotes when relevant.
5
Uses external tools (if needed)
May search the web (Tavily), query academic papers (Semantic Scholar + PubMed), search your assay catalog, or create to-dos.
6
Synthesizes a response
Combines all sources into a coherent answer with citations, links to original documents, and actionable recommendations.
Plan Modes
Streaming Events
On the advanced chat page (/chat), you can see the Brain’s work in real-time. These events appear as the Brain processes your request:
Clarification Mode
If your question is ambiguous, the Brain may callask_clarification instead of proceeding:
- A clarification card appears with the Brain’s question
- 2-4 quick-answer suggestions are provided as clickable chips
- You can click a suggestion or type a custom response
- The Brain then continues with your clarification
The Brain only asks for clarification when the question is genuinely ambiguous. It won’t ask unnecessary follow-ups.
Inline Documents
When the Brain generates a report or document (via thecreate_document tool), it opens in a side panel:
- The document panel opens alongside the chat
- Content streams in real-time with Markdown formatting
- The document is rendered with a title and full formatting
- Generated files (CSV, XLSX, images) appear as download links
Generated Files
The Brain can generate various file types during a conversation:Computer Use BETA
The Brain can browse live websites on your behalf. When you ask it to visit a URL, it launches a real headless browser, navigates the page, and interacts with it step by step — taking screenshots, clicking elements, filling forms, and extracting data. What you can do:- Take screenshots of any website and see them inline in the chat
- Extract structured data from web pages (pricing tables, contact info, product specs)
- Navigate multi-page workflows (click through menus, follow links)
- Monitor competitor websites or regulatory pages for updates
- Check that your own web properties look correct
- A blue monitor icon and the domain name (e.g., “Browser: example.com”)
- Page screenshots displayed inline after each action
- A collapsible log of actions taken (navigate, click, extract, etc.)
- Extracted data formatted as tables or JSON
Computer Use works with any publicly accessible website — no domain allowlisting or configuration needed. For sites that require login, the agent will ask for your confirmation before entering credentials.