When to use it
Reach for a Data Room when:- You’re running a project — a company deep-dive, a sector study, a deal, a watchlist — and want all its sources in one place.
- You want the AI to answer only from sources you trust, with citations you can open and check.
- You want to gather a large body of filings or transcripts and ask questions across the whole set without reading each file.
- You want your own files (or your firm’s warehouse data) to be part of the analysis.
- You want a curated source set you can hand to a colleague, or reuse to ground Chat, an agent run, or a report.
- You just want to find documents in the first place → start in Document Search, then save the good ones into a Data Room.
- You want a quick, one-off answer with no saved sources → Chat.
- You want a thorough, autonomous multi-step analysis → Agent Studio (you can point it at a Data Room).
- You want the same questions answered consistently across many companies or documents in a table → Grids.
- You want a formatted, templated deliverable as the output → Reports (a Data Room can be its source).
How to use it
Create a folder
Add sources to the folder
Browse, filter, and read
Ask AI about the room
Capabilities & key choices
Ways to fill a room
Add documents from the AllMind library (Add Documents to Data Room)
Add documents from the AllMind library (Add Documents to Data Room)
- Templates — one-click presets that pre-set the years, categories, and document types for a use case (for example Earnings Analysis – 5 Years, Annual Reports, M&A / Special Situations, Mining & Energy technical reports, Capital Markets & Offerings, Insider Trading & Ownership).
- Year range — last 2 / 5 / 10 years, all, or a custom from/to (defaults to the last 5 years).
- Document categories — SEC filings (US — annual reports/10-K, quarterly/10-Q, current/8-K, proxies, registrations, prospectuses, insider/ownership, and more), SEDAR filings (Canada — annual reports, financial statements, MD&A, annual information forms, material-change reports, prospectuses, NI 43-101 technical reports, NI 51-101 oil & gas reports, take-over bids, ownership filings), earnings-call transcripts, earnings-call slides, press releases, third-party research reports (up to a two-year window), ESG reports, and investor-relations events (non-earnings conference talks, investor days, shareholder meetings — searchable by company or across companies for a date range).
- Keyword search — free-text search across document types with a result-count limit, for when you’re hunting a specific topic rather than a filing type.
Build the room with AI (Build Data Room with AI)
Build the room with AI (Build Data Room with AI)
Upload your own files (Upload Personal Files)
Upload your own files (Upload Personal Files)
Add authorized warehouse tables (Add Snowflake Tables)
Add authorized warehouse tables (Add Snowflake Tables)
Save items from across the platform
Save items from across the platform
Asking the room questions
- Scope — ask about one folder, all folders, or only the items you’ve selected. Started from inside the Data Room, the AI is automatically pointed at your documents and told to search them first, before the web or other libraries.
- Data-Room-only mode — you can restrict the assistant so it answers purely from your Data Room (and its authorized tables), turning off the web and other sources for that conversation.
- Citations — every fact the AI draws from a document is tagged with a numbered citation that opens the exact source. Sources that came from a warehouse table are shown distinctly and open a row preview.
- Automatic scaling — small rooms have their documents loaded straight into the conversation; larger rooms switch to a mode where the AI works through search, so even very large libraries stay responsive.
What it can access & produce
A room can draw on:- Company filings — US (SEC) and Canada (SEDAR).
- Earnings-call transcripts and slides, and investor-relations event transcripts.
- Press releases, third-party research, and ESG reports.
- News articles and saved company data tables.
- Your own uploaded files (and files imported from Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, Gmail, and Outlook).
- AI-generated insights you’ve saved.
- Authorized data-warehouse (Snowflake) tables, where your organization has connected them.
Tips & best practices
- One room per project. Keep a company, sector, deal, or theme in its own folder so the AI’s answers stay focused and your citations stay relevant.
- Let AI do the assembly, then refine. “Build Data Room with AI” is the fastest way to stand up a room; tune the proposed plan before approving rather than adding everything by hand.
- Use Auto-Update for living coverage. For names you track, set a subscription so new filings arrive on their own — but add any older documents yourself, since Auto-Update only brings in new ones going forward.
- Restrict to the room when grounding matters. Turn on Data-Room-only mode when you need answers strictly from your trusted sources, with no web influence.
- Ask focused questions for the best citations. Meaning-based search returns the most relevant sources, which is ideal for analysis and summaries. For an exhaustive “list every document from this week” task, lean on connected warehouse data, which is built for complete pulls.
- Select before you ask. When you only care about a few documents, select them and ask AI about just those.
Limits & things to know
- Folders are flat — no sub-folders or nesting. Organize with multiple folders and clear names.
- Moving items between folders isn’t available right now. You choose a folder when you add a document, and you can remove a document from a folder; to relocate a library document, add it again to the other folder. (Each saved item lives in one folder; the same warehouse table can be added to more than one.)
- Auto-Update is forward-only. It adds newly published matching documents from the moment you set it up — it does not backfill documents that already existed.
- Ask AI surfaces the most relevant sources, not all of them. Any single answer is grounded in the top matches for your question, so it isn’t a guarantee that every matching document was read. For complete coverage of a large set, use connected warehouse data.
- Warehouse (Snowflake) data is organization-gated and read-only. It appears only if your organization has connected it and authorized specific tables; revoked tables are skipped automatically, and tables authorized for one organization aren’t used by someone from another organization who opens a shared folder.
- AI-assisted setup depends on your workspace. If it isn’t enabled for your workspace yet, you’ll see a message to that effect; you can still build rooms manually.
- Deleting a folder removes everything in it — its documents and its Auto-Update subscriptions — so delete deliberately.
- Your rooms persist until you delete them; nothing expires on its own, and everything is saved to your account and available across devices.
How it works with other features
A Data Room sits at the center of the research workflow — most features feed into it or build on it.Document Search → Data Room
Data Room → Chat
Data Room → Agent Studio
Data Room → Reports
Example workflow: a grounded sector study and presentation
A real multi-feature journey — “analyze the gold sector and build a presentation” — with the Data Room as the source of truth:- Stand up the room — open the Data Room and use Build Data Room with AI: describe the set (“major gold producers — 10-Ks, earnings transcripts, and recent research, last 2 years”), let it resolve the sector into companies, review the plan, and approve.
- Fill the gaps — use Document Search to find any specific notes or filings the plan missed and save them into the same folder; upload your own model or memo if you have one.
- Keep it live — turn on Auto-Update for the key tickers so new filings keep arriving while you work.
- Interrogate it — use Ask AI (Data-Room-only) to pull out supply/demand drivers, cost curves, and risks, checking the citations as you go.
- Go deep where it matters — point an Agent Studio run at the folder for the meatier sub-questions.
- Structure it — build a Grid over the producers to answer the same questions consistently across companies.
- Deliver — generate a Report scoped to the folder, so the final deck or document is grounded in — and cites — the exact sources you assembled.
Common questions
What's the difference between a Data Room and Document Search?
What's the difference between a Data Room and Document Search?
How does Ask AI know to use my documents?
How does Ask AI know to use my documents?
Are the answers actually sourced?
Are the answers actually sourced?
Can it handle a huge room — thousands of documents?
Can it handle a huge room — thousands of documents?
Can I add my own files, or files from Google Drive or email?
Can I add my own files, or files from Google Drive or email?
Can I move a document from one folder to another?
Can I move a document from one folder to another?
Does Auto-Update pull in older filings too?
Does Auto-Update pull in older filings too?
Can I share a room with my team?
Can I share a room with my team?
What happens if I delete a folder?
What happens if I delete a folder?
Is the Data Room a paid add-on?
Is the Data Room a paid add-on?