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Overview

Clara is the AI assistant built into nOps. Ask Clara is its home: a full page where you can ask about cloud and AI spend, anomalies, budgets, and allocations, and pick up past conversations whenever you need them. To open it, click Ask Clara in the sidebar, or go to clara.nops.io/clara.

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Start a chat

When you open Ask Clara with no conversation selected, you’ll see Every dollar, explained. and a composer at the bottom of the page.
  • Type your question in the composer, for example, “What drove the jump in my AWS spend last week?”
  • Or start from a quick action:
Clara answers in plain language, and can add charts or tables when a visual makes the answer clearer. Keep going with follow-up questions. Clara remembers the conversation.
Clara can make mistakes. Check important figures in Explorer before you act on them.

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Your chats

The left side of the page has your chat tools:
  • New chat starts a fresh conversation.
  • Chats lists the conversations from the last 30 days, grouped by date. Click one to reopen it. The page address updates, so you can bookmark a chat or share the link with a teammate who has access.
  • MCP opens the MCP & Slack page.
  • Artifacts is coming soon.

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Search your chats

Use the search box above the list to find a past conversation.
  1. Type a few words. The list narrows to chats that match.
  2. If you don’t see what you need, click Not finding it? Search with AI, or press Enter. Clara searches the meaning of your chats, not just the exact words.

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Delete a chat

Use the delete action on a chat in the list to remove it. If the chat came from a scheduled question, the schedule keeps running. See Scheduled questions.

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Scheduled questions

Have Clara answer the same question on a regular basis, such as a weekly spend summary every Monday.
  • Create a schedule by asking Clara in a chat. For example: “Send me a summary of last week’s spend every Monday at 9am.”
  • See the results in your chat list. Each run appears as a chat with a Scheduled badge, so you can open it and ask follow-up questions.
  • Change a schedule with the edit action on that chat. You can update the question and how often it runs.
  • Stop a schedule from the same edit action. Deleting the chat only removes the conversation. It does not stop the schedule.
  • Send results to your team. Scheduled results can also post to connected Slack or Teams channels. See Slack & Teams delivery.
You can also create schedules from Clara MCP, the Clara Slack Agent, or the API.

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Connect Clara to your tools

Open MCP in the left menu to reach MCP & Slack, where you bring Clara into the tools your team already uses. The page also shows the status of the data sources Clara can use.

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Ask Clara from other pages

You don’t have to leave what you’re doing to ask a question. Look for the Ask Clara button in the bottom-right corner of these pages: On Canvas and individual canvases, click the Clara button in the top-right corner, or press Cmd+J.
On Canvas, Clara opens as a full overlay with its own layout and shortcuts. See Clara AI on canvas for details, including @ mentions for data sources and widgets.

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No cloud data yet?

If your organization hasn’t connected a cloud account yet, Clara can still help you explore the product and templates. Connect a provider when you’re ready so Clara can analyze your live cost data.

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