Ask CASRAI · Beta
Ask a research-administration question
CASRAI is the reference for research administration — ask whenever a question comes up, and bookmark this page for the next one.
- Every claim cites a source
- Says “I don’t know” rather than guess
- Never used to train a third-party model
- CC-BY 4.0
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Ask CASRAI
Ask CASRAI answers research-administration questions and cites the passages behind every claim — and says so when the corpus does not cover something, instead of guessing. It comes with a Regulatory Radar subscription at $29 a month, alongside the daily digest of regulatory changes and the dashboard of what changed.
150 questions a day, on this site, over the API, or inside your own tools through the CASRAI MCP server.
Everything CASRAI publishes — this page, the dictionary, the guides and the news — stays free to read, with no account and no card.
Answered questionsThe first answers are in editorial review
Answered questions
The first answers are still with the editors
Every answer here is drafted from CASRAI pages and then read, corrected and signed by a named editor before it is published. Ask a question above in the meantime — the live assistant already works.
How this works
How it works
Four steps, and the ones we skip
Ask CASRAI reads CASRAI, and nothing else. Here is the whole pipeline, including where a human sits in it.
01
Search
Your question is matched against every published CASRAI page — keyword and meaning search at the same time, so a question phrased in your words still finds a page phrased in ours.
02
Ground
Only the retrieved CASRAI text is given to the language model. It has no other source for its answer, and it is not allowed to fall back on general knowledge.
03
Cite
Every factual claim must point at the page it came from. Claims that cannot be sourced are removed rather than left standing, and the pages consulted are shown before the answer is written.
04
Review
Published answer pages
A named CASRAI editor reads, corrects and signs the answer before it is published, and it is re-checked whenever a page it cites changes.
Plainly stated
- What this is.
- A retrieval assistant over CASRAI’s own published content, drafted with a large language model. We say so plainly because a standards organisation should.
- What it isn’t.
- Not legal advice, not funding advice, and not a substitute for your funder’s, publisher’s or institution’s own policy documents — always check the primary source, which we link.
- What it won’t do.
- It won’t answer from general knowledge. If CASRAI hasn’t published something on your question, it will tell you that instead of guessing.
- Your questions.
- Logged without personal data so we can see what’s missing and write it. Never sold, never used to train a third-party model. How we use this
