New this release - better answers from your feedback

We spent the last month working with the Bellevue DS pilot team to annotate AI-generated answers using a new feedback form, then building improvements based on what we learned.

The team helped us immensely, running through testing sessions, throwing a range of questions at our Chat Assistant, and telling us how the responses held up. That feedback drove improvements to our AI systems, helping the Chat and Email Assistants better answer questions. We’re excited for you to see the results.

Check out the improvements at https://bellevuewa.govstream.ai/

What's new

Chat and Email Assistants give you better answers

Your assistants now:

• Understand longer conversations better

• Find more relevant documents

• Cite sources more accurately

• Can pull addresses from messages and use GIS lookups without manual entry in the project context sidebar

If you asked a tough question in November and it struggled, ask it again. The answer should be noticeably better. Check out some examples below:

We rebuilt how the system searches for information. It now uses multiple search methods at once and goes beyond exact matches to find other conceptually relevant sources. It keeps better track of context in back-and-forth conversations.

The feedback dashboard is cleaner

We removed the pending and resolved status tracking and kept what matters:

• A simple table showing what you submitted

• A dedicated page for full details when you click on an item

• Form and dashboard now match perfectly

Go try it

This is your feedback in action - going from annotating questions to improving the product in about a month.

Ask a question that you threw at it  in November. Try Chat or Email  Assistant again.

https://bellevuewa.govstream.ai/

Keep sending feedback and telling us what works and what we miss. That feedback drives what comes next.

Things we also fixed in this release

• Chat Assistants responses no longer return empty citations

• Citations now better handle formatting and special characters in URLs

• Timezones now reflect correctly in feedback views

• Feedback ratings now record correctly

v1.5.0 released December 2025