# The caveat

Source: https://docs.tightly.io/help/ask/the-caveat
Reviewed: 2026-09-07

## What it is

The caveat is the sentence Ask Tightly's earlier chat printed about itself, under the box:

> AI can make mistakes. When in doubt, verify.

The Ask Tightly page and the panel beside every page do not print it today: nothing stands under the box there. If you remember the sentence, it came from the earlier chat, and its advice still holds.

## How Tightly decides it

Ask Tightly composes its written answers with a language engine, and a language engine can be wrong in ways a query cannot: it can misread a question, pick the wrong comparison, or describe a figure it read correctly in words that overstate it. The figures themselves come from reads of your records, and every charted answer shows its Basis, the table of the choices it stands on, so the figure can be checked against the rows beneath it. The caveat was there for the words.

For questions about how Tightly works, the check is no longer a sentence on the page. Such an answer must cite an article from the knowledge base, open one whole, or stand on your own figures; an answer that does none of those is withdrawn and replaced with the knowledge base's own sentence that it has no article for that. So an answer about the product either shows you what it stands on, or says it has nothing.

None of this makes the rest of the page uncertain: a figure with a stamp is a figure Tightly read.

## The words on the face

An act is never performed on the strength of an answer alone. A suggested act is a button you press, and a write Ask Tightly performs itself waits for your Yes or No first; the one exception is keeping an answer on your own Board or Home, which only you see.

## What you can do about it

Verify what you are about to act on. Open the Basis table on a charted answer: its first row is the coverage, how many records the answer read, and every other row is a choice the answer made, with Ask again with… beside it. Picking an option there writes an amended question into the box for you to send; it does not run on its own. Read The numbers, which carries its row count, to see the rows the figure stands on. Follow a Resources chip to what the answer read. Where an answer explains how Tightly works, look for its citation; an answer with a citation is one you can check against the article.

## Glossary line

The caveat is the sentence AI can make mistakes. When in doubt, verify. that Ask Tightly's earlier chat printed under its box; the current Ask Tightly page and panel do not print it.