Ask Your Assistant

Once an assistant is connected to your farm (see Connect an AI Assistant), you can ask it about your farm in plain words, the way you would ask someone who has the app open in front of them. It reads Sporeline as you, with your role, so it sees what you would see on the same pages and nothing more. A Viewer’s assistant never sees customer names, and contact details only come through when the farm has turned on sharing them with assistants and your role allows it.

This page lists what you can ask about each part of the farm. Each area links to a short section in its own guide with an example question.

What you can ask your assistant

Due today and schedules. What is due or overdue today, which lab items and lots are late, and where they are. See Stage Schedules and Due Today.

Lots and blocks. How many units a lot has left and where they are, what is in a room or on a rack, a lot’s history over a date range, and what a label code points to along with that block’s history. See Lots and Spawn, Lot Transactions and Lot Audits and Scanning on the Floor.

Holds and QC. What is flagged or waiting at a hold stage for release, since when and who put it there. See QC Checkpoints and Release.

Harvests. Which blocks finished, what they yielded and how long they took, filtered by recipe, species or dates. See Harvest Workflow.

Orders. Open orders, what is on them and which lots filled them. See Orders and Packing Slips.

Trace and recall. Where a lot came from and where it went, and what a recall of it would reach. See Traceability and Recall.

Reports. Contamination, yield, losses and the sterilization log, for Managers and Owners. See Reports and Their Numbers.

Materials and readings. Raw materials on hand and their lots, and the temperature and humidity in a room. See Raw Materials and Room Readings.

Counts and transfers. Inventory counts and transfers between sites. See Counts by Scan and Site Transfers.

Lab and logs. Cultures, plates and liquid cultures, cleaning logs and air tests. See The Lab: Cultures, Cryo, Plates and Liquid Cultures.

Some of these areas are reaching the assistant in stages. If the assistant can’t read one yet, it has no way to look it up, so check the page in the app; the app always has the answer.

Previews and approvals

Questions like these only read. When you ask the assistant to change something, it shows you a preview of what it would do before anything is saved, and you say yes or no in the chat. Bigger changes, such as moving a whole batch, imports and anything that deletes, also wait for a person to approve them in Sporeline, and an Owner or Manager can turn on approval for every change. See Approve AI Changes.