> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pete.vet/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Ask Pete

> Ask cited questions across the case record and verify the sources before relying on the answer.

Ask Pete gives attorneys a plain-English question panel across the materials attached to a case.

The answer cites the record, page, transcript, message, or note used to support the response. When a citation can open to an attached case source, it links to that source context.

Ask Pete works from the materials currently attached to the case. When the firm adds later records or plain-text notes, answers reflect the updated case file.

The case-scoped Ask Pete panel helps identify missing facts, open case issues, source context, and proposed updates that need review. Legal and strategy decisions stay with the attorney.

The Ask Pete side panel stays tied to the case where it was opened. When the user leaves that case, the panel closes; reopening Ask Pete on the same case resumes that case's conversation.

## Good questions

Ask questions that would otherwise require manually searching the case:

* For a VA case, did the veteran mention a specific exposure?
* Where is the earliest report of a condition?
* Which C\&P exam discussed range of motion?
* Which VA decision created the current procedural posture?
* What records are missing from the case file?
* What case issues are still open?
* Which facts need review before the case is ready?
* What did the client send about prior treatment?

## Cited answers

Use citations to verify anything important. A useful answer is not just fluent. It points back to the underlying case material.

If the case does not support an answer, the response says so rather than guessing. If an answered response has no citation, cannot open one of its citations to an attached case source, or lacks quoted source text, the source support issue is marked so the answer is not treated as verified.

## Attorney review

Use Ask Pete to find facts and source context. Legal decisions stay with the attorney.