Using the Chat
What you can do with Alloy AI — search, analyze, visualize, and create reports through conversation
Alloy AI is a conversational interface available throughout the platform. Ask questions, run analysis, build visualizations, and generate reports — all in natural language.
Where to find it
- Home page — the chat is front and center
- Chat panel — click the Alloy AI button on the right edge of any page
- "Ask AI" buttons — quick-launch buttons on mission summaries and other pages, plus the Ask AI option at the top of Search results
The chat is context-aware — it knows which page you're on and what you're looking at. Ask a question on the Missions page and it references your current filters. Ask on a report and it can modify that report.
What you can do
Find data across your mission library:
- "Find moments where two robots were at the same waypoint but reported different terrain classifications"
- "Can you find any joint temperature spikes that correlate with the gait stumbles?"
- "Find all perimeter patrols that completed without intervention and summarize the stats"
- "Search for images where the robot encountered standing water"
Supports text search, log pattern matching, and image search — describe what you're looking for visually.
Run analysis on your data, including SQL queries and Python code:
- "Walking speed should drop from 1.2m/s to 0.3m/s when the robot enters a confined space — find cases where that transition didn't happen"
- "Describe path-planning failures and how they lead to missed waypoints on the inspection route"
- "Track CPU, GPU, RAM, and joint motor temperatures per robot per mission — identify spikes and how they trend week to week"
Behind the scenes, Alloy can query your data warehouse and run Python with pandas, numpy, matplotlib, geopandas, scikit-learn, and more — all in a secure sandbox.
Create interactive visualizations for reports:
- "Plot where the leg servo errors begin and how they accumulate over the patrol"
- "Show me a map of all inspection routes overlaid on the facility layout"
- "Build a weekly comparison dashboard of system health metrics per robot by serial number"
- "Make a timeline of key events during this inspection run"
Visualizations can be embedded in reports for sharing.
Generate and refine custom reports:
- "That stair-climb failure you found for QP-07 during the warehouse inspection — make a report about what happened"
- "Create a report on how joint calibration drift builds up across back-to-back patrols"
- "Remove the battery section and focus on navigation"
See Creating a Report for more.
Set up pattern scanners:
- "Create a scenario to flag any patrol where battery drops below 20% before returning to dock"
- "Set up a scanner for leg motor fault events"
See Scenarios for more.
Open the Replay Viewer at exactly the moment you're discussing — with the right panels already laid out. Be as vague or as specific as you want:
- "Show me the altitude drop around 14:32 on yesterday's patrol"
- "Open the replay where the obstacle avoidance kicked in"
- "Show me battery and motor-current time-series with the map on top and camera5 in the bottom left"
Alloy AI picks the panels — 3D scene, map, time-series, text log — arranges them, and seeks every stream (video, telemetry, map cursor) to the exact instant in question.
Save the layouts you want to reuse. Once a layout works for the question you're asking, save it — next time you ask something similar, the agent will reopen it instead of rebuilding from scratch.
Tips
- Iterate — start broad, then refine with follow-ups
- Use the context — on a report, ask it to modify sections; from Search, select Ask AI to explore a topic with AI
- Highlight text — select text on the Home page, Chat, Missions, or Reports and click "Ask about this" to include it as context