Whether you are drafting content, analyzing feedback, or mapping out strategy, our AI assistant Elle is your collaborative partner — ready to help you move faster and think bigger. It is seamlessly integrated across the Aha! product suite, so no matter which products you have enabled in your Aha! account, you have access to the power of AI.
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Overview
Elle is a single, powerful partner available across your entire Aha! account. Most of the time, you simply type a prompt using the default agent to create content, analyze data, or prototype new functionality — no extra setup required.
There are three types of prompts to use with Elle:
Requests tell Elle what you want it to do — such as summarizing feedback, drafting a message, or generating ideas.
Instructions contain specific guidance on how to structure output — such as your company's style guide, team workflows, or preferences.
Agents are intelligent tools that understand your goals and take action without needing detailed instructions each time.
Elle is seamlessly embedded in every Aha! product with specialized capabilities in certain areas (such as the AI idea exploration page and the whiteboard AI assistant).
For even greater flexibility, you can tailor Elle to fit your unique workflows by adding your own custom prompts to the AI prompt library.
Elle (and other related AI capabilities) runs on credits. Each Aha! account includes a number of credits based on product(s), plan type(s), and paid seats. As you use Elle, you deplete credits from your account. Administrators can monitor usage in their account settings to see how the team is adopting AI and track broader adoption trends as AI becomes part of daily workflows. They can also set usage limits.
Configure Elle
Each level of settings within your Aha! account can help you configure Elle differently. Here, we will detail what settings you should be aware of and how you might want to use them.
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Think about instructions and agents that will help everyone in your account, or those that will drive consistency across your account. For example, this could be instructions to apply the company brand or style guide. |
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Think about instructions and agents that will help everyone on your team or those that will drive consistency across the team. These customizations will likely focus on workflows or tasks that are unique to your team or department. A workspace can inherit an agent from its workspace line. |
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Think about instructions that solve use cases only you have before copying them into the broader Aha! account. This also applies to situations where you want to experiment with a custom agent or instruction. |
Access Elle
You can open Elle from any page in any Aha! product. Use it to chat with default agents designed to help you analyze data, prototype designs, create content, or answer questions. To do this:
Click the Elle icon in the top navigation bar. The chat interface will open in the lower-right corner.
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If you have a general question, start typing. If you have a specific task in mind:
Select the Agent you need from the dropdown.
Click the + button in the prompt window to select or create Custom instructions for a custom agent to use, or to Upload files and images that provide context for Elle. Select Search the library to access the AI prompt library and select an existing prompt.
Elle supports PDF, TXT, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, PNG, and JPEG file uploads.
You can upload a max of 10 images per prompt, and a max of 20 for a single chat.
Start typing your prompt!
You can also open Elle from within a text editor to help you outline, draft, or revise content. To do this:
Click the Elle icon in the text editor toolbar. The chat interface will open in a sidebar. The Writing agent will be selected by default, and your current Aha! record will be linked for context.
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From here, you can:
Start typing your prompt.
Click the + button to select or create Custom instructions for a custom agent to use, or to Upload files and images that provide context for Elle. Select Search the library to access the AI prompt library and select an existing prompt.
Click Outline, Draft, or Refine to focus on the most common text editor tasks.
From within the text editor, you can also highlight specific text that you want Elle to look at. To do this:
Highlight text, then click the Edit with AI icon that appears.
The chat interface will open in a sidebar, and will include the Writing agent, your current Aha! record, and the text you highlighted for context.
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From here, you can:
Start typing your prompt.
Click the + button to select or create Custom instructions for a custom agent to use, or to Upload files and images that provide context for Elle. Select Search the library to access the AI prompt library and select an existing prompt.
Click Outline, Draft, or Refine to focus on the most common text editor tasks.
There are some AI features in each Aha! product that are much more specific (in that they have entire interfaces or even full Aha! pages built around them). To access Elle for these, you first need to navigate to the places where it is available. For example:
To open the whiteboard assistant, create a whiteboard, then click the sparkle icon from the whiteboard's toolbar.
To analyze an interview transcript with AI, record or upload an interview in Aha! Discovery.
To explore ideas with AI, navigate to Ideas -> Exploration.
To draft release notes with AI, ship an Aha! Roadmaps release first.
Access the AI prompt library to use custom prompts, favorite prompts, and prompts created by Aha! that are purpose-built for product development work.
Save an AI artifact
To save Elle's output as an artifact, simply prompt Elle to do so:
"Save this as an artifact."
"Create an artifact from this output."
"Save this summary as a reusable document."
Elle will save the artifact and display it in a blue outlined box. Click Show to display the artifact.
Copy an AI artifact
You can copy an AI artifact and paste it into any record or note in your account:
In Elle's side panel, find the Analysis complete for [Record ID] box outlined in blue and click Show. From here, there are several ways to copy the artifact:
Click the document icon on the upper right of the artifact. Doing so will create a new document in the workspace you are in. The document icon will then change to a link icon. Clicking it will take you directly to the document.
Click the copy icon in the upper right. This will copy the artifact. Then, right-click or press Ctrl+V to paste it into a document or Aha! record.
Click the link icon to navigate to the saved artifact. From here, you can select and copy it.
Share an AI artifact
When Elle saves an artifact, it gives it a unique URL that you can use to access it later. You can share this URL with anyone in your account so they can also view the artifact.
Click the saved artifact. It will be outlined in blue. Then, click Show.
Click the Share icon in the artifact's upper right. The artifact's URL will display. Click the Copy icon to copy the URL.
Share the URL with your colleagues.
Only users in your Aha! account who have the URL will be able to access the artifact.
Create a prototype
Use Elle to turn clear requirements into interactive prototypes quickly. It generates screens and sample data from your feature details, so you can validate assumptions and refine scope early. Save the result as an artifact to gather focused feedback from the team.
Open a well-defined feature or product requirements document (PRD). Use a record that already has clear goals, requirements, or user stories.
Click the sparkle icon in the text editor to access Elle.
Select Prototype from the Agent menu.
Describe what you want to prototype in the chat box, then select the arrow to submit your prompt.
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Elle will begin creating your prototype.
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Click the full screen button at the top of Elle to expand. From here, you can watch Elle work.
Click Prototype to view the prototype. Click Source to view the generated code.
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When the prototype is complete, save it as an artifact and share it with stakeholders for alignment.
Prompting best practices
For most prompts, you can chat with Elle just like you would a human coworker, using the language that comes naturally to you. To make sure that Elle returns the results you want in the fewest number of interactions, keep these guiding principles in mind:
Add context: Elle can review records in your Aha! account — so link to them! If you have a workspace note, initiative, or even an external URL that is a great example of what you want Elle to do, provide those in your initial prompt.
Segment complex tasks: It can be helpful to ask Elle to take a sophisticated task one step at a time. First, give it context to review. Then, ask it to plan how it will complete the task. Finally, ask for it to complete each step in your task individually so you have opportunities to adjust it after every step.
Write specific prompts: If you give Elle a vague prompt, you will get a vague response. Try to define exactly how you want Elle to proceed and what you consider a successful output.
Experiment and iterate: Try different prompts, especially as you are learning how to involve Elle in your Aha! account. When you find a prompt that works particularly well, ask Elle to convert the prompt into custom instructions you could add to a custom agent.
If you have specific context, task steps, or prompt parameters for a task you need to do often, consider creating custom instructions. You can add all these details to custom instructions so your custom agent starts with everything it needs to be successful.
Supported and unsupported functionality
Elle does have some (temporary) limitations in what it can do and what record types it can interact with.
Record types
Elle can best read records that contain a reference number (e.g., "FWCYL-123").
Elle can create or update:
Goals
Initiatives
Releases
Ideas
Ideas themes
Epics
Features
Requirements
Studies
Interviews
Notes
Key results
Competitors
To-dos
Many-to-one custom table relationship fields (Enterprise+ plan)
Many-to-many custom table relationship fields (Enterprise+ plan)
Elle cannot create or update:
Strategic visions
Strategic models
Strategic positioning
Ideas portals
Idea organizations
Idea segments
Idea contacts
Polls
Widgets (in-app feedback or idea submission)
Idea segments
Aha! Roadmaps presentations
Sprints
Aha! Develop extensions
Reports
Elle is able to create reports containing these record types:
Goals
Initiatives
Releases
Ideas
Epics
Features
Requirements
Studies
Interviews
Notes
Key results
Competitors
To-dos
Approval to-dos
Work requests
Elle cannot create or update:
Strategic visions
Strategic models
Strategic positioning
Ideas portals
Idea organizations
Idea segments
Idea themes
Idea contacts
Polls
Widgets (in-app feedback or idea submission)
Idea segments
Aha! Roadmaps presentations
Sprints
Aha! Develop extensions