# How Sprinto AI Works

Sprinto AI enables you to create, deploy, and use AI-driven workflows that streamline compliance activities across the platform. It consists of two key components: **AI Playground** and **Ask AI**. Together, they allow you to build automation and interact with AI directly in the context of your compliance data.

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### Core Concepts

* **AI actions**: An intelligent, configurable action that performs a specific compliance task, such as summarising a policy or analysing vendor questionnaires.
* **AI Playground**: A dedicated section in Sprinto where you create, configure, and manage AI actions.
* **Ask AI**: A contextual assistant available in entity drawers (for example, Policies, Risks, Vendors) where you can ask questions or trigger AI actions.
* **Display Results**: Actions that present read-only outputs inline.
* **Update Fields**: Actions that apply AI outputs directly to entity fields (planned for future releases).

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### Workflow Overview

1. **Create actions in AI Playground**
   * Navigate to *AI Playground* from the left navigation.
   * Choose to create a new action either by:
     * **Configure with AI**: Enter a plain-text description, and Sprinto AI auto-generates the action configuration.
     * **Manual configuration**: Define the entity, input fields, and instructions manually.
   * Save the configuration to add the action to your Playground.
2. **Deploy and Manage Actions**
   * Actions can exist in different states: **Draft**, **Deployed**, or **Paused**.
   * Once you deploy an action, it becomes available for use across relevant entity records.
   * You can pause, redeploy, or edit actions as needed.
3. **Trigger Actions in Ask AI**
   * Within an entity record (for example, a policy or vendor record), click the **AI button** to open the Ask AI drawer.
   * Select an available action (either Sprinto-defined or custom).
   * Trigger the action to generate inline results or, in future versions, apply updates to entity fields.
4. **Interact with Ask AI**
   * In the same drawer, you can ask natural language questions about the active entity.
   * The AI responds in context, and you can ask follow-up questions to refine or extend the answer.
   * Session memory ensures that context is maintained as long as the session remains active.
5. **Review and Approve Outputs**
   * All AI outputs are displayed for review before being applied.
   * For display-only results, you can copy or provide feedback.
   * For update actions (future release), you must approve suggested updates before they are saved.
6. **Feedback and Refinement**
   * Each AI-generated response includes a thumbs up or thumbs down option.
   * Feedback helps improve the accuracy and usefulness of AI Actions over time.

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### Placement in Sprinto

* **AI Playground**: Accessed directly from the left navigation.
* **Ask AI**: Accessible in the drawer of each supported entity (for example, Policies, Risks, Vendors, Staff, Incidents, Assets). The placement is consistent, but content adapts to the entity context.