AI chat for lab result interpretation

The AI chat panel is a streaming conversation window built into getbased. It is also the main guided path for fresh profiles: after the first-visit tour, chat helps you decide what to add first and routes you to import, setup, or profile context only when needed. Every message you send automatically includes a snapshot of the profile context you have enabled.

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Open the chat

Click the chat bubble on desktop or the mobile chat button on smaller screens. On a fresh profile, the first-visit tour opens guided chat when it finishes. Returning desktop users with an empty profile may also see chat open automatically beside the welcome screen. On desktop, the panel slides open beside the current view so charts, cards, and lenses remain usable while chat is open. Drag the chat panel’s edge to resize it, or drag the divider beside the conversation list to resize that list. The dashboard adjusts alongside the panel rather than being covered by the resized chat. Width preferences are kept on this device and clamped to the available screen space. To expand the chat to full screen, click the ⛶ button in the chat header. Click it again to return to side-by-side mode. Your preference is saved between sessions. Press Escape to close the panel.

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Write and recover a draft

The message box grows as you type, then becomes scrollable for very long prompts. Press Enter to send or Shift+Enter for a new line. On phones, the composer stays above the software keyboard and uses larger touch targets. getbased saves the unfinished text separately for each conversation. You can switch conversations, close chat, or reload the page and return to the same draft. Sending the message or deleting its conversation clears that draft. Drafts are device-local: they do not sync to another device and are not included in backups or exports. When local encryption is enabled, draft storage is encrypted with the rest of the sensitive profile data.

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Talk and listen in chat

The + menu groups Add photos, Import health file, and Manage AI context. The model picker sits beside the microphone: search the active provider’s catalog and change supported reasoning effort without opening Settings. Model changes appear immediately for the next request; previous replies keep their recorded provider/model identity. Tap the microphone beside the composer to dictate a message. Tap it again to stop; getbased places the transcript in the composer so you can review and edit it before sending. Choose Listen under an assistant reply to hear it read aloud, or enable automatic reading in Settings → Voice. Voice can run with downloaded on-device models, an OpenAI-compatible voice server, xAI, or ElevenLabs. You can also use separate services for dictation and listening. Voice processing is independent from the AI provider that generates the reply. See Use voice in AI chat for setup, model downloads, provider choices, and privacy boundaries.

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What the AI knows

Every message includes enabled context from your current profile. You never need to paste results into the chat, but you do control which stored sources are allowed to shape answers: open Insight → Manage → Context → Data sources. Turning a source off does not delete the data. It stops that source from influencing in-app AI chat, Biology Score context, and source-driven warnings until you turn it back on.

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How chat handles marker ranges

For an ordinary marker question, chat is instructed to lead with the main takeaway instead of listing every possible range. It starts from the range and status supplied by getbased, but it must not present that frame as universal medical truth. If a laboratory reference interval and a supplied optimal band lead to different conclusions, the answer should normally compress the distinction into one sentence—for example, “within the lab range but above getbased optimal guidance.” Other published thresholds should appear only when you ask about alternatives or when they materially change a safety-relevant interpretation. When Web or Knowledge Base evidence is available, chat should identify the outside source rather than describe an uncited number as a “model range.” You can ask for more detail at any time: “Compare the supplied ranges,” “Why is this optimal band narrower?” or “Show me published thresholds and their sources.” Routine Genome context is intentionally compact. It can include up to 12 ranked priority findings, while long per-SNP claim scope and interpretation text stays out of ordinary requests. Choosing Ask AI on a Genome finding opens a focused, editable prompt with that SNP’s evidence grade, relevance, supported claim, interpretation context, and publication links. The selected model can use broader knowledge, but the prompt asks it to distinguish established evidence from inference. Supplement and medication context is deliberately bounded. Normal questions prioritize current items and history that overlaps the visible lab range; a therapy-specific question can include additional matching history within the context limit. Compact context keeps high-signal quality findings, while detailed context may also include methods and reporting limits. Each imported quality result has its own Include in AI control. Passing duplicate potency checks default off, while failures remain visible by default. See Track supplements and medications for lifecycle, import, and laboratory-evidence details.

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Current Focus

The Current Focus card appears on the dashboard and in the Insight lens. It shows a one-to-three sentence AI-generated insight drawn from your recent lab trends, health goals, conditions, supplements, and enabled profile context. It gives you an orientation before you start typing and updates when your data changes.

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AI personalities

The AI adapts its communication style based on the personality you choose. Switch personalities using the selector in the chat header. On the official hosted app, saving a custom persona requires you to acknowledge that it is an AI-generated interpretation, not the real person or an endorsement, and that you will not use it to impersonate someone. Self-hosted deployments show the same responsibility notice without requiring the hosted-site checkbox. Each conversation remembers its selected personality. A new conversation starts with AI Lab Analyst.

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Discussion mode

Once a conversation has an assistant reply, choose the discussion button to add another perspective. Your current personality stays selected and you choose one additional participant. The participants then answer in a predictable sequence and remain attached to that conversation; you can add another participant later. The picker tells you how many AI responses will run now and on future messages. Each participant is a separate provider request and can create a separate charge. During a round, chat shows whose turn it is and the current position. You can Pause round, Resume the remaining participants, or retry one failed participant without rerunning responses that already completed.

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Conversations, search, edits, and forks

The chat panel has a conversation rail listing past chats. Each conversation is named automatically from your first message, and you can rename or delete it from the rail.

• Start a neutral conversation at any time with New Chat
• Switch between threads without losing history
• Search conversation names and message text; selecting a result opens the conversation, reveals older history when needed, and highlights the match
• Use Jump to latest when you have scrolled away from new streaming content
• Long conversations initially render the latest 120 stored messages; choose Show earlier messages to reveal the preceding batch without losing your scroll position

On mobile, tap the hamburger icon in the chat header to open the thread list. Conversations are not automatically deleted when you create new ones. Delete conversations you no longer want from the rail. Create a project in the conversation list to group a topic. Drag a conversation onto the project’s heading/group, or use the conversation menu’s existing project choices when using a keyboard or touch. Drag to Drop here for no project to remove the grouping. Project menus offer Rename project and Delete project; deleting a project keeps its conversations outside the project. Moving a pinned chat into a project removes its separate pinned placement. Projects are conversation organization, not filesystem folders or extra AI instructions. Their names and membership are stored with the profile’s conversation index, included in chat exports/backups and optional encrypted Sync. Local storage follows your data-protection setting; grouping chats does not turn encryption on by itself. Every assistant reply has Fork to new chat. A fork copies the conversation through that reply, keeps the original unchanged, and shows a link back to the source conversation. Your latest text-only question has Edit. Saving the inline edit sends the revised question again and replaces its following response in the current conversation. Earlier questions should be forked instead, and messages with images cannot be edited because the original full-size attachments may no longer be available. User messages no longer repeat separate copy and retry buttons; assistant replies retain their response actions.

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Photos and health-file imports

Attach images to any chat message — photos of lab reports, supplement labels, food logs, or anything else you want the AI to see. Three ways to attach: Direct chat accepts up to 5 images per message; CLI chat accepts up to 4. The combined limit is 18 MB. Supported image formats are JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP. The selected model and adapter must report image support. There is no HD toggle. Chat sends original image bytes and dimensions within the size limit; prepare a smaller or redacted copy yourself when needed. Only small thumbnails are retained in chat history, not the original full-resolution image files. PDFs, spreadsheets, and text exports are routed to getbased’s existing import handlers, not sent as arbitrary agent file attachments. The file still needs to be supported by that importer, and extracted health records go through the normal review before saving. Read about lab import.

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Web search

Toggle Web in the chat header to let the AI search the internet before responding. This is useful for questions about recent studies, drug interactions, or supplement research where up-to-date information matters. CLI agents can use their adapter’s supported web tools independently of this direct-provider toggle. Personal gateways use their own tool policy. This does not give a local agent general browser, shell, or filesystem control through getbased. See agent capabilities.

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Read the encrypted-chat badge

When a private or encrypted provider mode is selected, the chat header shows a lock beside the model name. A plain 🔒 means the mode is selected but a verified session has not yet supplied details. After Venice establishes a session, 🔒 TEE + GPU means the required Intel confidential-computing and NVIDIA GPU checks both passed. 🔒 failed means a required check failed and the encrypted request was stopped. Hover, focus, or tap a labeled badge to see what was checked and what the result does not establish. For Venice, the details name the underlying DCAP and NRAS checks and explain that independently valid TEE and GPU evidence does not prove that both ran together. The badge describes the connection used for that chat; it is not a general claim that the provider’s code is free of defects. See Privacy and data handling for what remains visible and TEE attestation and encrypted AI transport for the technical verification flow.

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Stop, retry, and continue responses

While the AI is generating a response, a Stop button appears in the chat input area. Click it to halt generation mid-stream — useful when the AI is heading in the wrong direction and you want to rephrase your question. The partial response is saved and marked [stopped]. Choose Retry to replace that response by sending the same question again, or use Edit on your latest text-only question to change it first. Before the first response text arrives, short waiting phrases rotate. They are presentation cues, not a record of tools actually running. Your profile avatar identifies your messages; an agent icon or selected persona identifies the assistant. Custom personas and discussion participants retain their names, while the default analyst label is not repeated above every reply. For direct-provider chat, when a provider ends an otherwise incomplete response at its output limit, getbased can ask it to continue up to two times and join the parts into one message. If the result is still truncated, chat marks it [output limit reached] and you can send “continue” yourself. CLI execution follows the adapter’s own completion behavior.

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Helpful suggestions

When an answer has related recommendations, it shows a collapsed See helpful suggestions row. New or changed suggestion areas get a short New cue, but the row does not automatically reopen after every response. Expand it only when you want those options.

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Health context and AI features

Not everything you see in getbased is AI-generated. Understanding the distinction helps you trust the numbers.

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What the AI generates

• Chat responses and interpretations
• Current Focus insights
• Per-card profile summaries, health dots, and tips
• Biology Score explanation text when you click Explain this score
• PDF lab import parsing
• Custom personality profiles

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What is deterministic (not AI)

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Knowledge base grounding

If you have connected a knowledge base, the chat automatically retrieves the most relevant passages from your documents before each response. A badge in the chat header shows the active library name when this is running. See Connect a custom knowledge base for setup instructions.

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Token costs

Every message sends your enabled profile context plus recent eligible conversation history. The chat header shows the name of your active model, and each AI response includes a footnote with the estimated token cost for that exchange. The Local AI connection can also point to a LAN server, remote compatible endpoint, or cloud-tagged model. Those setups may send chat content off-device and may have provider costs. Check the execution-location message in Settings → AI; see Connect an AI provider for details.