Built-in knowledge

Your pack comes with built-in knowledge: curated estimating guidance on practice, contract terms, prevailing wage, local rules and, for a trade pack, that trade's own methods. crux reads it when a question needs it. Your bid documents always come first: a fact about your job comes from that job's documents, with the latest addendum governing.

The knowledge is split into topics, one for each section. Each pack comes with hundreds of them.

How crux marks it#

Citations are for your bid documents. When an answer leans on built-in knowledge instead, crux adds a small gray crux knowledge tag, so you can tell your documents from crux's own guidance.

Production rates are not built-in knowledge. They have their own page: see Production rates.

Find a topic#

1. Open Settings > What crux remembers.
2. Go to Built-in knowledge. Each topic shows on one line with a short summary.
3. Type in Search the built-in knowledge to find a topic.
4. Tick Only what you changed to see only the topics you turned off or corrected.

Turn a topic off#

Use this when a topic does not apply to your company.

1. Find the topic.
2. Turn on Doesn’t apply to us.

crux stops using that topic everywhere, in every chat.

To use the topic again, turn Doesn’t apply to us off.

Add a correction#

Use this when a topic is mostly right but your company does it differently.

1. Find the topic and click Add a correction.
2. Write Your version, in your own words.
3. Click Save correction.

crux uses your version wherever it differs from the built-in text. The correction is also saved in Your rules, where you can edit or delete it.

• Change correction edits your version.
• Remove correction goes back to the built-in text.

Built-in knowledge, your rules and the Brain#

When they disagree, your words win: a correction wins over the built-in text.