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AI Answers in Customer Communities

  • January 13, 2026
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mdfahd
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  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️

This article helps to understand AI Answers in Customer Communities.

Overview

 

AI Answers enhances the Customer Community experience by empowering users with AI-powered search and response capabilities. This feature uses latest advanced AI models to deliver real-time, conversational responses that feel natural, accurate, and dynamic.

When users search for information within the community, AI Answers provides instant, cited responses that include relevant sources for transparency and trust. The AI Answer panel also includes an expandable list that allows users to explore deeper insights and related content.

Key Highlights

  • AI-Driven Search: Provides answers to your questions.
  • Cited Responses: Provides AI-generated answers with source links for further reading.
  • Real-time Streaming: Displays answers as they are generated for an interactive experience.
  • Expandable Insights: Allows users to view additional context or sources with one click.
  • Continuous Learning: Improves over time based on user interactions and community feedback.

Configure AI Answers in Community

 

Community admins and managers can configure the AI Answers from the settings page and can also enable AI Answers to be leveraged by end users in the community.

To configure the AI Answers:

  1. Log in to Control.
  2. Navigate to Settings > AI. The General Settings page appears.
  3. Turn on the Smart Summary toggle.
  4. Turn on the AI Answers toggle. This provides direct AI-generated responses to the search queries in real-time.
  5. (Optional)Turn on the Search Summaries for all users toggle. This enables end users to leverage AI summaries.

 

Use AI Answers in Community

 

Community users can type a query into the search text field on the Community homepage. The AI Answers feature analyzes the query, searches through community discussions, documentation, and federated content, and displays the most relevant, cited answers within the AI Answers panel.

The following image displays an example search result for the query What is Renewal Center?

Key Elements in the AI Answers panel include:

  1. AI Answers Panel: Displays the AI-generated response synthesized from community posts, product documentation, and other federated content.
  2. Source Snippets: Lists brief content snippets from relevant sources. Select a snippet to open the original content.

Click Continue reading to expand the AI Answer and view additional insights or detailed explanations.

 

11 replies

  • Contributor ⭐️
  • January 15, 2026

Hello ​@mdfahd thanks for sharing the release of this feature! I was curious in seeing if this would come at any additional cost if I were to enable this feature for our live instance? Thanks in advance!


mdfahd
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  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
  • January 16, 2026

Hello ​@Edwinm,

Thank you for reaching out to us with your query. Tagging PM for better insights into this. ​@Graeme Rycyk FYI


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • January 16, 2026

Hello ​@Edwinm,

 

Thanks for the question on this, AI Answers does not come with any additional charge for the use of this feature.

 

Cheers,

 

Graeme


revote
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  • February 13, 2026

I have found some of the phrases via phrases tool, but not all of them. How to change these texts in Finnish:

 

While AI generates answer

 

After answer is generated

 

When there is no match for the search

 

If user press thumb down, text to those buttons and placeholder to the text field

 

 


revote
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  • February 13, 2026
Also, where does this feedback go (positive or negative) and what is it used for? Can I see them as a admin?
 

 


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • February 13, 2026

Hey ​@revote,

The AI Answers phrases mentioned will be able before we reach GA, but they are not yet available to be changed, so my apologises there. Regarding the feedback, this is also not yet available but we will be adding AI Answers analytics (no firm time frame yet) and this will data such feedback on the summaries, CTR of sources from summaries and other information. I would love to hear any ideas on what you would like to see from an analytics pod or if any other feedback on the AI Answers feature more generally.

Kind regards,

Graeme


jvdc
  • Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • February 13, 2026

Hey ​@Graeme Rycyk I was discussing this with ​@olimarrio yesterday, I think these analytics would be good:

  • AI answers/summary reads (button clicked):  GS recently released some search analytics, with “click-through” rates  but with AI Answers/Summaries getting better users will start relying more on the summaries and click nothing. Classical search analytics would use click-through as a way to measure a search success but, today, no clicks on search results doesn’t mean the user did not find what they were looking for… they maybe found everything they need in the AI Summary.
  • Referenced sources: The different source items and how frequently they were used for AI Summaries.
  • Type of referenced sources: Community content, federated search, KB
  • Searched terms with referenced sources: they searched terms with the selected sources to build the summaries 
  • Votes: I feel like these votes are a bit hidden and probably not clicked much. Also what is the intention behind it? To rate the accuracy of the AI’s work or if they found what they were looking for? 
  • Confidence level: I assume the AI will try as much as possible to share a summary, using anything it can, but depending on how much resources is available the confidence and quality level will be different… Could the AI share with the user the confidence level of the information shared?

beatriz.winn
  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • February 17, 2026

Hello all, 
Where can I find more information on what powers the AI answers? Thank you.


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • February 17, 2026

Hi ​@beatriz.winn,

I would be happy to answer any specific questions you have, what else would you like to know?

Cheers,

Graeme


emiller
  • Helper ⭐️
  • February 20, 2026

@Graeme Rycyk I just came here to say that we just became aware of and enabled this feature yesterday and I am very impressed!  This is going to be a game changer in helping our customers find the help and updates they need.  To give you an example, we just had a situation today where our customers were posting about a known issue with one of our vendor/partners.  Multiple threads were started, which I consolidated into one curated discussion and provided an official update. I tested the search and the AI Answers feature immediately identified the newest discussion, featured the curated thread and provided a truly excellent summary of the update.  We also have our help site integrated in the community search, and the AI also does a great job summarizing content from our documentation and combines it with discussions it finds in the community.  This is the best new feature I have seen since working with Gainsight CC over the last year and a half.  I would only suggest one small tweak, which would be to make it easier to identify which links are sourced from community discussions and which come from documentation. Overall, AMAZING enhancement!!! cc: ​@elliot_hullverson ​@jennyweigle 


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  • February 23, 2026

In one test, we found that AI Answers pulls information from reported content, uses it as part of its answer and also links to the source (which can only be opened by administration). Can you please have a look at that?