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Congrats on launch. Two questions from a user perspective. 1) How do you handle spec changes across document revisions? 2) Can users export the analysis with links to the exact tables and figures in the PDFs?

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Solid questions, you've clearly been burned before lol. 1) Document revisions can be a bit hard to handle, but we currently look for any dates or document numbers present, and when possible we just show the latest. However, plenty of times there are no dates OR revision numbers, and we'll get different documents from multiple sources. In this case we show all the documents, and have prompted the AI to flag this risk to the user if the question is answered differently between documents. Not the ideal approach, but working with what we're getting...

2) Hmm, not really. You can share the chat, and the specific response, but the only way to export the source would be to screenshot it... Adding it to our list of potential next features!

Appreciate the detailed response. Showing all conflicting docs and flagging inconsistent answers is a practical interim step. Long term, version tracking across sources could be a real differentiator since engineers live and die by revision history. On exports, even a lightweight “copy link to figure/table” feature would go a long way for collaboration.

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