AI features

Two minutes on what the AI features actually do — and what they deliberately don't. For the full picture, see the full manual.

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Full quick start

It's your own key, always. Nothing here runs on a key this company pays for. Add your own in Settings → AI — Claude (Anthropic) or OpenAI, your choice — and every AI-enabled feature reads it from there. Until you do, a feature that needs it is simply not on the screen, not a button that fails when you press it.
It suggests. The app decides. A model reads a note, a comment, an email or an imported file and points at what looks like an action item, a name or a date — as words. Matching that word to a real person, a real date or a real permission is this application's job, done in code, every time. Two people named "Ashley" on a board means nobody gets assigned, with a note saying why, rather than a guess. A model here never writes to the database, never picks a user, and never invents a due date.
Where to find it. A capability on one page isn't a capability on every page — see the table below for exactly where each one lives.

The Preview and review step of the AI-assisted task import wizard, over a file named onboarding-notes.docx. A table lists three proposed tasks with checkboxes, each already selected: 'Send the revised rollout timeline to Bob' owned by Sam Rivera and assigned to Bob Smith, due 2026-09-12; 'Confirm the migration window with IT' owned by Dana Okafor with the assignee shown as Unassigned; 'Decide whether the pilot survey stays open' owned by Sam Rivera, assignee Unassigned, due 2026-09-19. Back, Cancel and Import buttons sit in the footer. — Import your tasks (Settings → Your data, on the Tasks page) — a file is read, tasks are proposed, and nothing is written until you review this table and press **Import**. An owner nobody named still lands on you, not on a guess; an assignee that didn't match anybody on your roster is left **Unassigned** rather than picked for you. This is invented sample data, for the guide.

What's actually where

Tasks by Email: Create a personal task without opening STRIDE. Open the AI Assistant panel from the top bar and you will find the address to mail, with a button to copy it. Send from your primary sign-in email or a verified alternate on your account — a message from anywhere else is not matched to you and nothing is created. The subject and the body are read by your own AI Assistant, so it has to be set up first; the task lands in your Personal Tasks, due today. It is never a team task and never lands on a board.
The panel shows how many of your messages succeeded and how many failed. Those count unique messages only — if the same one is delivered twice, or retried, it is still one result, because the application records each message once and recognizes a repeat. The address and the counts appear only when your organization has switched the feature on for a team you are in; if you cannot see them, that is why.
Tasks: Import your tasks (Settings → Your data) reads a pasted Word, Excel, CSV or text file and proposes tasks, shown above. Tidy formatting works on a task's description and comments; the paper-plane button beside Watch and Email, labeled Follow-up, drafts a status-check email. Week Agenda writes a saved weekly brief from your own tasks, also reachable from the Calendar page. (Update from email, which folded a pasted email into a task, was removed on 2026-09-20 — mailing the task in does the same job in one step, and the message is then saved on the task for you to read and reply to.)
Team board: The same import wizard, reading onto a board instead of your own list, plus Draft follow-up… on a board task.
Notes: Open a note and look for the AI assistant card in its own rail: Find action items reads the note and parks what it finds on the checklist — a suggestion, not a task, until you make one of it. This card stays visible even with no key configured; it says so, and the button opens Settings → AI for you instead of failing.
OKRs: An objective, key result or quarter can carry a written insight — prose about the progress, pace and health this application already calculated. Every number in it is one you can already see on the bar beside it; the model is never asked to do arithmetic.

Good habits

Your key lives in Settings → AI and nowhere else — it is never written into a CSV export or a backup, and switching providers never carries one key's secret to the other's field.
An ambiguous match is left for you to resolve, not guessed. That applies to a name, a date and a due date alike.
A big import that's regenerating shows live progress, and if a regeneration ever fails partway, whatever you already had stays on screen rather than being cleared first.
Removing your key turns a control off immediately — no reload, no reopening Settings.

Words you'll see

AI-enabled feature: Anything that calls a model. Needs your own key in Settings → AI to appear at all.
Suggestion: Something AI found — a possible action item, a possible owner. Not written anywhere until you accept it.
Your own API key: A credential from your chosen provider's own console (console.anthropic.com for Claude, or OpenAI's). Billed to your account, stored with your account, read only from your own browser.

Want more detail — every AI button, per-provider setup, what each one sends and doesn't? Open the full manual →