> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.visotrust.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# VISO Chat Agent Overview

> VISO Chat Agent is the AI assistant in VISO TRUST — ask natural-language questions to surface vendor data, assessment findings, and program insights.

**VISO Chat Agent** is the AI assistant built into VISO TRUST. Instead of navigating menus and dashboards to find information, you can ask questions in plain language and get immediate answers grounded in your program's actual data — vendor risk scores, assessment findings, artifact detections, advisory alerts, and more.

VISO Chat Agent is available to all client roles — Admins, Program Managers, Contributors, and Viewers. Open it from the assistant button in the top navigation bar.

## Context-Aware by Design

VISO Chat Agent is a single assistant that adapts to wherever you are in the platform. Open it from anywhere and it automatically scopes to what you're viewing:

* **Across your portfolio** — from most pages, ask about your entire vendor program: risk scores, assessment status, advisories, and more.
* **On a relationship, artifact, assessment, or trust profile** — the assistant narrows to that context, answering from that vendor's analyzed artifacts and assessment findings.

You don't switch modes manually — the assistant picks up the current context automatically, and you can always ask a broader question to widen the scope.

## What Makes It Different from a Search

VISO Chat Agent isn't a keyword search — it understands context. It knows about your relationships, risk scores, assessment statuses, artifact detections, and monitoring alerts, and it uses that data to answer questions rather than just returning a list of matching records.

When you ask "which of my high-risk vendors don't have a completed assessment?", VISO Chat Agent queries your actual program data to produce an answer — not a link to a filter.

## Contextual Prompts

VISO Chat Agent is aware of where you are in the platform. When you're on a risk advisory, for example, it may surface a prompt to help you understand the advisory's impact on your portfolio or draft a vendor outreach request. These contextual entry points are designed to reduce the friction between noticing something and acting on it.

## How It Works

<Steps>
  <Step title="Start a conversation">
    Open VISO Chat Agent from the top navigation or select a contextual prompt within the platform. Type your question or request in plain language.
  </Step>

  <Step title="The agent processes your request">
    VISO Chat Agent draws on your program's data — vendor profiles, risk scores, assessment history, artifact detections, advisory feeds — to interpret your question and determine the best response.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review and refine">
    It may ask a clarifying question or offer suggested next steps. You can accept a suggestion, refine your request, or ask a follow-up.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Take action">
    For action-oriented requests, VISO Chat Agent can execute directly — generating a report or initiating a workflow — and shows you results in real time.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What VISO Chat Agent Can Access

VISO Chat Agent works within your VISO TRUST instance only. It has access to:

* Your organization's vendor relationships and their risk scores
* Assessment history and findings
* Artifact detections and control coverage
* Risk advisories and monitoring alerts
* Questionnaire responses and Trust Profile artifacts (for vendor-specific questions)

It does not access data outside your VISO TRUST environment.