Reasoning Search: How Cited Answers Work Across Company Data
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A closer look at reasoning search: how it reads across sources, builds an answer, and cites where each part came from.
Keyword search finds files. Reasoning search answers questions. This deep dive explains how the second one works and why citations matter.
The problem with finding files
When knowledge lives in Drive, Notion, Box and email, a search returns a list of documents and leaves the reading to you. The answer often depends on several of them at once.
What reasoning search does
Reasoning search breaks a question into parts, looks across your connected sources, and assembles an answer from what it finds. It works on the knowledge graph, so it can follow links between people, projects and decisions.
Why citations are central
Each claim in an answer points to its source. That gives your team three things:
- Verification: open the source and confirm it.
- Context: see the surrounding document, not just the extract.
- Accountability: know where a number or decision came from.
Example questions it handles
- What did we decide about pricing for this client, and why?
- Which projects depend on this vendor?
- What have we saved about this competitor in the last quarter?
Works with web captures
Pages and screenshots saved through web memory are searchable in the same way as internal files.
Who it helps
Researchers tracing evidence will find it useful, as described on Constella for Researchers. Consultants and operations teams benefit too.
To see it in action, watch Reasoning search: cited answers across your company data.