## For agents

- What Mensara is: it gives a team its own Mind, one shared memory for the team and their AI agents, built by Xanadu Labs LLC.
- Status: signup is not open. A person joins the waitlist at https://www.mensara.ai/#waitlist. Agents cannot create an account or sign up.
- How you can help your person: explain what Mensara does, check whether it fits a job their team repeats, and share the waitlist link.
- Agent references: https://www.mensara.ai/llms.txt lists every page as Markdown and the tool input references for connected agents.

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# Ask your first question

Content updated 29 October 2026.

Guides · Get a first result · [How it works](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works)

Your Mind is the Mensara workspace holding your team’s saved information. A source is a record an answer relies on, such as a note, policy or decision. Ask one question through your connected AI tool, then open that source to check the answer. This guide takes you to that first verifiable result.

[Page as Markdown](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/first-useful-question.md)

## Before you start

Connect your chosen tool to the intended Mind using [the connection guide](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/portal-mcp-cli). Use your own account and choose a harmless record you expect to be allowed to read. If the record is not saved yet, follow [saving information](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/save-information) first.

## Ask for the answer and its evidence

Ask one concrete question and include the scope or date that matters. You could say: “What does the current policy say about this? Show the record and the wording you used, and say if the evidence does not settle it.”

Your agent starts from the Mind’s maps, which point towards related records, and reads the relevant sources within your access. A missing or excluded record does not give it permission to guess.

## Open the source

Check whether the record actually says what the answer claims. Look at the entity, date, conditions and whether the information is current for this task. A source about a different customer or an earlier period may be relevant background without answering your question.

If you need the reason for a change, ask for [the supporting history](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/current-and-evidence#ask-why-something-changed) rather than treating an earlier version as today’s rule.

## Say what failed if the answer is poor

Point to the missing fact or the source passage that was misunderstood. If the source itself needs correcting, [propose a correction](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/suggest-a-correction). If the source is sound but the answer is incomplete, ask the agent to re-read that passage and explain the discrepancy. [Recover from a poor answer](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/improve-an-answer) separates these cases.

## Check any saved result separately

An answer in chat is not proof that something was saved. If you asked for a note or correction too, inspect the proposal’s actual state and open the saved record after it applies. [Your review settings](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/mind-settings#why-changes-wait-for-review) explain why a permitted edit can wait for review.

## Related

- [How Mensara memory works](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/memory)
- [Ask to see the source behind an answer](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/maps-and-navigation)
- [Correct saved information in your Mind](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/suggest-a-correction)

Previous page: [Start with a question you can check](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/choose-a-job)

Next page: [Use chat in your Mensara Portal](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/use-chat)

Chat in your Portal lets you ask an AI model questions and work with your Mind’s records in the same web interface.

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