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Gainsight CC: Accelerate Engagement with AI Answers (Open Beta)

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  • January 13, 2026
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kcronin

Supercharge your community experience with the power of generative AI.
 

AI Answers is now available in open beta, bringing conversational search to your Customer Communities. With this feature, your users can instantly find answers and uncover insights, all powered by AI.

 

Find Answers Instantly with AI-Powered Search (AI Answers)

Transform your community search into a dynamic, conversational experience.

  • AI-Driven Understanding: Interprets natural language to deliver relevant, human-like responses.
  • Cited Results: Includes source links for full transparency and context.
  • Streaming Responses: Watch answers appear in real time for an engaging, interactive feel.
  • Expandable Insights: Click to reveal additional context and related sources.
  • Continuous Learning: Improves accuracy based on user feedback and interactions.
AI Answers helps members find information faster and with more confidence — making every search feel like a conversation with an expert.

How to Get Started

AI Answers is available in Customer Communities Control > AI

  • If you already use Smart Assistant or any of our other AI features, you’ll see the new AI Answers option automatically — no additional enablement required.
  • If you’d like to add this feature, you can activate it directly within the AI settings page.

Set Up in Minutes

Enable AI Answers

  1. Go to Customer Communities Control > AI > AI Answers
  2. Toggle Enable AI Answers
  3. Thats it! AI Answers will now be set up.

Also included in this open beta, Search Analytics Dashboard is a new dashboard that allows admins and community managers to review how users interact with search. Key metrics include total number of users, total searches, the no results rate and more!

With Search Analytics, teams can now better understand how search is being used, identify gaps in the search experience, and make informed improvements.

👉 Check out the Release Notes for more details.

💬 Have questions or feedback? Drop a comment below — or better yet, ask our new AI!

 

22 replies

DannyPancratz
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  • January 13, 2026

Could you please share what the tooltip definition of Conversation Rate is in the Search Analytics Dashboard? 


DannyPancratz
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  • January 13, 2026

Could you please share what the tooltip definition of Conversation Rate is in the Search Analytics Dashboard? 

screenshot of the tooltip definition

 


ryanne.perry
  • Helper ⭐️
  • January 13, 2026

Are the AI search results only from data posted in the Community? Or would it also include our knowledge base as we have it set up for federated search via app integration?


atwhite
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  • Helper ⭐️⭐️
  • January 13, 2026

Thank you! We’re excited for this feature! Some initial questions that came up:

How are Search Queries Without Results determined? Some terms in our list are accurate, while others (at least in our testing) do produce results. Are terms (and whether they produce results) role-dependent? 

Also: this seems to be the case from our testing, but I want to confirm that if we still have Search Summaries for All Users toggled off, the new AI Answers will not appear for them yet and only display for admins?

 


Jef Vanlaer
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  • January 14, 2026

 

  • If you already use Smart Assistant or Moderation AI, you’ll see the new AI Answers option automatically — no additional enablement required.
  • If you’d like to add this feature, you can activate it directly within the AI & Automation settings page.

 

Is there an option to enable AI Answers if we don’t use Smart Assistant or Moderation AI yet? I only have an AI (not AI & Automation) settings page in Control and don’t see the new feature listed.


JeppePeppe
  • Helper ⭐️⭐️
  • January 14, 2026

 

  • If you already use Smart Assistant or Moderation AI, you’ll see the new AI Answers option automatically — no additional enablement required.
  • If you’d like to add this feature, you can activate it directly within the AI & Automation settings page.

 

Is there an option to enable AI Answers if we don’t use Smart Assistant or Moderation AI yet? I only have an AI (not AI & Automation) settings page in Control and don’t see the new feature listed.

 

We’re missing that option in Control as well, although we use Moderation AI. We don’t have the option AI & Automation.


alan.edwards
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  • January 14, 2026

 

  • If you already use Smart Assistant or Moderation AI, you’ll see the new AI Answers option automatically — no additional enablement required.
  • If you’d like to add this feature, you can activate it directly within the AI & Automation settings page.

 

Is there an option to enable AI Answers if we don’t use Smart Assistant or Moderation AI yet? I only have an AI (not AI & Automation) settings page in Control and don’t see the new feature listed.

 

We’re missing that option in Control as well, although we use Moderation AI. We don’t have the option AI & Automation.

We also do not have the AI & Automation option.


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • January 16, 2026

Hey ​@ryanne.perry,

 

AI Answers will use both Community and Federated content to provide it’s answers and sources.

 

Cheers,

 

Graeme


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • January 16, 2026

Hey ​@atwhite,

 

Searches without results can have two reasons. Either your users are searching for content you don’t have, or they can’t find it. Search terms and the data you see are not role dependant, and I would be happy for you to DM or email me the search terms that seem inaccurate to give some further clarity on them.

If you where using the Smart Assistant prior to the release of AI Answers your settings will be retained so All Users toggle should remain off.

 

Cheers,

 

Graeme


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • January 16, 2026

Hey ​@Jef Vanlaer,

AI Answers has replaced the Smart Assistant, rebuilt, redesigned and rebranded. So yes, you can use AI Answers without Smart Assistant, and as our AI Moderation Agent is a different feature this is also not tied to AI Answers. You enable AI Answers by navigating to /settings/ai in the Control and scroll down to the AI Answers toggle and enabled it by toggling it on.

I have corrected a typo stating the tab name, it was initially stated as Customer Communities Control > AI when it should have been Customer Communities Control > AI. Sorry for any confusion here.

Cheers,

Graeme


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • January 16, 2026

Hey ​@JeppePeppe & ​@alan.edwards,

 

I have checked both of your communities and AI Answers looks to be now enabled. You can now check this by navigating to /settings/ai in the Control and scroll down to the AI Answers toggle and enabled it by toggling it on.

 

If you continue have any problems here or can't find this tab please shoot me a DM and I can help you further.

 

 

 

I have corrected a typo stating the tab name, it was initially stated as Customer Communities Control > AI when it should have been Customer Communities Control > AI. Sorry for any confusion here.

 

Cheers,

 

Graeme


alan.edwards
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  • January 16, 2026

Hey ​@JeppePeppe & ​@alan.edwards,

 

I have checked both of your communities and AI Answers looks to be now enabled. You can now check this by navigating to /settings/ai in the Control and scroll down to the AI Answers toggle and enabled it by toggling it on.

 

If you continue have any problems here or can't find this tab please shoot me a DM and I can help you further.

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

Graeme

 

Thank you for your response the feature appeared yesterday as an option to enable.


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • January 16, 2026

Hey ​@alan.edwards,

No worries, that was likely just a little delay in the feature reaching you as the feature was enabled across the platform, but I am glad that everything is now set up, if you have any questions or feedback I would be happy to talk more on this.

Cheers,

Graeme


jvdc
  • Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • January 16, 2026

@Graeme Rycyk will the search analytics be integrated into the data available via the PowerBi connector?


alan.edwards
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  • January 20, 2026

Hello ​@Graeme Rycyk ,

 

I have had reports of the answers giving inaccurate information, and providing links that are not on our community and do not resolve e.g. https://support.oleeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019441580-Managing-Applications (we do not use any non-community sites for knowledge articles).

 

I believe that it will only use the content within my site,  so it reliant on good content, but it making mistakes.

 

How would like me to provide further examples?

 

Alan


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • January 20, 2026

Hey ​@jvdc,

I will double check here, but the data for Search Analytics is stored in our Data Lake, so I would expect the PowerBi connector connects to our Data Lake but I will sync with our Data team first and loop back here with the answer.

Cheers,

Graeme


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • January 20, 2026

Hey ​@alan.edwards,

I will look into this, what was the search query, that would be helpful, other examples along with their query would also help but just the query from the search that used this like: “https://support.oleeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019441580-Managing-Applications” would be enough to debug this further.

Cheers,

Graeme


judahs
  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • January 20, 2026

@kcronin thank you for this post about AI answers. I noticed that you included some references to configurations in your instructions, but I am not sure where to find those. 

In this section of the post: 

Enable AI Answers

  1. Go to Customer Communities Control > AI > AI Answers
  2. Toggle Enable AI Answers (Beta)
  3. Configure your data sources for AI search
  4. Customize response settings and source citations

 

I don’t see any options for numbers 3 & 4. Could you tell me where I can find settings for AI data sources or to customize AI response settings? 


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • January 20, 2026

Hey ​@judahs,

I just checked and AI Answers is already enabled as it looks like your community had previously been using the old versions, called Smart Assistant. You can find these settings here: https://www.{your-community}.insided.com/settings/ai

So looks like a handful of communities still have slightly different copy for the AI Answers settings, but don’t worry, this is temporary, and is due to previously used the Smart Assistant, these settings will be updated in the next couple of days, see image 1 and image 2 below. Sorry for any confusion here.

Image 1


Image 2

Cheers,

Graeme


judahs
  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • January 20, 2026

Thanks for that answer ​@Graeme Rycyk, and no worries. You’re correct, we were already using Search Summary, and I enabled AI Answers earlier today after finding this post. So, if I understand correctly, AI answers will replace AI Summary, and we will see that reflected in control in the next few days? 

I was also looking for these configuration options that were mentioned specifically in the post: 

  • Configure your data sources for AI search
  • Customize response settings and source citations

 

Will those options also become available at that time? They are not currently visible in Settings > AI. 


Graeme Rycyk
  • Gainsight Product Manager
  • January 20, 2026

Hey again ​@judahs,

These will likely come at a later date, and to make sure there is no confusion I have fixed that copy from the original post. But I am glad you are all set up and would be happy to talk about your experience of AI Answers or Search Analytics 1-1 in the near future. Have a great rest of your week.

Cheers,

Graeme


judahs
  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • January 21, 2026

Got it, ​@Graeme Rycyk ! Thank you for that clarification, the instructions match my experience now! 🎉