Knowledge sources
When an answer needs a rule rather than a formula, Mia looks it up instead of recalling it. Two sources can be searched: the Dlubal knowledge base, and your own company knowledge if your team has uploaded documents.
Which partial factors apply for a persistent design situation under the German NA?
An answer to that carries a citation. The citation is the point: it tells you which passage the number came from, so you can check it rather than trust it.
What a citation means, and what it does not
A citation names the passage that was retrieved and used. It does not mean the whole clause was reproduced, and it does not replace reading the standard. Treat it as a pointer into a document you have access to.
Example: an answer cites a clause on shear resistance and gives you a value. That value came from that passage. Whether that clause is the governing one for your member is still your call, and Mia will say so when the case is ambiguous.
Your own documents
If your team has company knowledge enabled, documents you upload become searchable alongside the Dlubal knowledge base, and answers say which source a passage came from.
Scoping is structural, not a setting: company knowledge is filtered by your team on the server, and the model cannot ask for another team's documents. There is no prompt that widens it.
These are the formats that can be uploaded:
<!-- docs:generated start=file-formats -->| Format | Extensions |
|---|---|
.pdf | |
| docx | .docx |
| xlsx | .xlsx |
| pptx | .pptx |
| csv | .csv |
| text | .txt |
| markdown | .md, .markdown |
| html | .html, .htm |
Files are capped at 20 MB each.
What a search costs
A knowledge base search costs 1 credit, billed when it actually happens. A question Mia can answer without looking anything up does not trigger one.
Example: "what is qL²/8" costs one chat message and nothing else. "Which snow load applies in Passau" costs a chat message plus a geo lookup, because it has to fetch data for the location.
When nothing is found
An answer that found nothing says so. That is deliberate: the alternative is a plausible sentence with no source behind it, which is the failure mode you would not catch.
Example: ask about a national annex that is not in the knowledge base and you get told it was not found, not an invented set of factors.