Expert Lens

Storytell suggests questions you can ask about your data through the view of several professional personas

Written By Mark Ku

Last updated About 21 hours ago

Overview

Storytell analyzes your documents and content to suggest questions that domain experts would ask. It helps you:

  • Find non-obvious insights

  • Challenge assumptions

  • Spot patterns and connections

  • Explore deeper implications

Expert Lens is enabled by default and appears on your home page when you have content in scope. It generates suggestions from expert personas (e.g., Financial Analyst, Security Engineer, Product Manager) across categories like Discovery & Insight, Critical Thinking, and Expertise & Depth.

🚀 Pro-Tip: Expert Lens suggestions appear when you have assets in scope. Learn how to add assets to your scope in: How to manage scope , Using @mentions

How Expert Lens works

When enabled, Expert Lens:

  • Analyzes your content in scope (documents, files, data)

  • Identifies relevant expert personas

  • Generates thought-provoking questions

  • Categorizes each suggestion

  • Displays suggestions in the prompt bar

Suggestions appear automatically when:

  • You're on the home page (not in an active chat)

  • You have content in your scope

  • Expert Lens is enabled

Enabling and disabling Expert Lens

You can toggle Expert Lens on or off at any time. Your preference is saved and persists across sessions.

To change Expert Lens settings:

  1. Go to the prompt bar at the bottom of your screen

  2. Click the three-dot menu in the prompt bar prompt bar

  3. In the menu, click Expert Lens

  4. Choose your preference:

    • On: "We will suggest questions experts would ask about your content"

    • Off: "No questions from experts will be suggested for your content"

ℹ️ Expert Lens is enabled by default. If you don't see suggestions, check that you have content in your scope and that you're on the home page.

Using Expert Lens suggestions

When Expert Lens generates suggestions, you'll see them displayed in a suggestion card above the prompt bar.

Viewing suggestions

  1. Suggestions appear automatically when you have content in scope

  2. Each suggestion shows:

    • The expert persona asking the question (e.g., "Financial Analyst asks")

    • The category icon and color

    • The question text

  3. Use the arrow buttons to cycle through multiple suggestions

  4. Click any suggestion to use it as your prompt

Interacting with suggestions

  • Click a suggestion: Uses it as your prompt and starts a chat

  • Cycle through suggestions: Use the left/right arrow buttons to see more

  • Dismiss the attribution: Click the X button to hide the persona/category info while keeping the suggestion

🚀 Pro-Tip: Click on Edit to bring the Expert Lens suggestion to your prompt bar.

When Expert Lens appears

Expert Lens suggestions appear in specific conditions:

When suggestions appear:

  • You're on the home page (not in an active chat conversation)

  • You have content in your scope (documents, files, or data)

  • Expert Lens is enabled (default setting)

When suggestions don't appear:

  • You're in an active chat conversation (suggestions are hidden on chat pages)

  • You don't have any content in your scope

  • Expert Lens is disabled in settings

ℹ️ Expert Lens is designed to help you start conversations, not to interrupt ongoing chats. Once you begin typing or enter a chat, the suggestions are replaced with other prompt assistance features.

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