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title: "Using the Spark assistant"
description: "Spark is the Talkspirit AI assistant. Open it from the top bar to ask questions, hold conversations, and draft changes you review before they take effect."
category: getting-started
section: navigation-basics
tags: [ai]
type: Reference
lastUpdated: 2026-08-13
locale: en
canonical: https://support.talkspirit.com/en/getting-started/using-the-spark-assistant
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# Using the Spark assistant


Spark is the Talkspirit AI assistant, a conversational helper you reach from anywhere in the suite. Open it from the top bar to ask about your organisation. Spark searches your workspace, answers in the conversation, and can draft changes, such as a governance proposal, that you review before anything takes effect. Every exchange is saved as a conversation you can revisit.

## Before you start

Spark is available only when an administrator has enabled it for your organisation and your access rights include the assistant. If the **Open Spark** control is not in your top bar, Spark is not switched on for your account.

## How do I open Spark?

The **Open Spark** control sits at the far right of the top bar, on every page. Select it to open the assistant as a column beside your current page, and select it again to close the column. Your page stays open, so you keep working while you chat.

To give a conversation the whole window, open its actions menu and choose **Open full page**.

You can also start from existing content: highlight text in a read-only post or document and choose **Ask Spark about this** to open the assistant with that context already in hand.

## What can Spark help with?

Spark helps you manage your organisation: its structure, tasks, goals, and meetings. Describe what you want in your own words, and Spark works through it in the conversation. It can:

- search your workspace for the right circle, role, or record;
- ask a follow-up question when it needs more detail;
- draft a change, such as a proposal to create or edit a circle or role, and show it for your review.

Spark does not change anything on its own. When it drafts a proposal, you choose whether to **Create** or **Reject** it, so the product's normal governance workflow still applies.

> **Note:** Spark writes its replies with a language model. Read what it drafts before you accept it, the same way you would review a colleague's suggestion.

## How do conversations work?

Every message you send starts or continues a conversation, and Spark keeps your conversations so you can return to them.

- Select **New conversation** to begin a fresh thread. A new conversation shows a few suggested prompts to get you started.
- The conversation list holds your history under **My conversations**, and anything a colleague has shared with you under **Shared with me**.
- Open a conversation's actions to **Rename** it, **Pin to top**, **Share** it, or **Delete** it. A conversation someone shared with you offers **Leave** instead.
- A conversation shared as read-only shows its messages but no message box, so you can follow it without adding to it.

## Availability and your data

An administrator switches Spark on for the whole organisation, and Spark processes your organisation's content to answer you. To turn Spark on, see [Enabling Spark for my organisation](/en/administration-security/how-to-enable-spark-for-your-organisation). To understand what Spark does with that content, see [How Spark processes your organisation's data](/en/administration-security/how-ai-processes-your-data).

## Next steps

- [Using Spark on a role or a circle](/en/structure-governance/how-to-create-and-edit-a-circle-or-role-with-ai-assistant)
- [Using Spark inside a proposal](/en/structure-governance/how-to-create-a-proposal-with-ai-assistant)
- [Enabling Spark for my organisation](/en/administration-security/how-to-enable-spark-for-your-organisation)
- [How Spark processes your organisation's data](/en/administration-security/how-ai-processes-your-data)