Chat
Chat is the fastest way to work in Quanty. It answers questions across your documents with citations, and — when opened next to a sheet — it can build and edit that sheet with the same capabilities you have by hand.

Opening chat
- Click the Ask AI button in the bottom-right corner of the app.
- Press ⌘K anywhere.
- Open the full-page chat from the sidebar for longer sessions.
Next to a sheet, chat docks as a resizable right-hand panel; you can expand it to fullscreen at any time.
Chat with your sheet
When a sheet is open, a context banner shows Working with your sheet — "The assistant sees this spreadsheet and can add rows, columns and edit cells from chat." Everything you can do manually, you can ask for:
- "Add a column that classifies each row by risk level"
- "Delete the rows where Status is empty"
- "Run the AI columns on the new rows"
- "Summarize what's in this sheet"
While the assistant works, live tool indicators narrate each step: Searching documents, Reading the spreadsheet, Adding rows, Updating cells, Adding a column, Running AI extraction, Adding a page, Attaching files, Reviewing cells and more. Results come with actions such as Open in sheet, Insert as sheet page, Open presentation, Open dashboard or View document.
The full list of operations the assistant can perform — reading, writing, processing, page management, presentations, dashboards and agent tasks — is documented in the Chat API.
Confirmations for destructive actions
Some operations are gated behind an in-chat confirmation card before they execute: deleting rows, deleting a column, deleting a page and running AI on all columns. The approval is bound to the exact action — if the request changes, it must be approved again.
Viewers are read-only in chat too
Chat respects roles: a user with the Viewer role can ask questions but the assistant will not perform write operations on their behalf.
Answers with citations
For questions over documents, the assistant retrieves from your organization's Files using hybrid search and returns citations: page references you can click to open the document with the source highlighted. The footer reminds you: "AI Agent can make mistakes. Please verify the information."
Composer features
- Model picker — choose the model per conversation; models are listed with pricing tiers.
- Streamed thinking — the assistant's reasoning streams live before the answer, so long analyses are transparent.
- Voice input — press Record voice message, speak, then Stop recording. Your audio is transcribed ("Transcribing...") into the composer via speech-to-text.
- Quick actions — suggested pills above the composer for common operations on the current sheet.
- Empty conversations offer starters like "Summarize what's in this sheet", "Add a column that classifies each row" and "What looks inconsistent in this data?"
Agents in chat
The header's agent switcher selects who you are talking to: the built-in Quanty agent (the default) or any custom agent your team created. A custom agent brings its own instructions, model and starter prompts. See Agents.
Chat can also delegate hard, multi-step questions to an agent task with its own budget — for example "research this company and fill in the missing fields". The run appears in the Agent activity panel with live steps.
Conversations
- New chat starts fresh; Chat history lists past conversations with search.
- Conversations can be renamed, archived and deleted.
- Copy conversation and Export conversation are available from the more-options menu.
Related pages
- Agents — reusable personas and delegated tasks.