# What AskDona is

> AskDona is an evidence-first, AI-assisted assessment platform from GFLOPS Co., Ltd. (Japan): AI makes a first-pass assessment of documents against regulations, standards and internal criteria, with every result tied to its source, and people make the final decision.

- Status: Current. Last verified 2026-10-21.
- Canonical: https://askdona.com/ai/askdona-overview.md
- Sources: https://askdona.com/, https://askdona.com/en/capabilities/, https://askdona.com/en/capabilities/askdona-assessment/, https://askdona.com/en/capabilities/assessment-engine/, https://gflops-ai.com/en/

## Facts

- **Name:** AskDona (styled AskDona®).
- **Provider:** GFLOPS Co., Ltd. (株式会社GFLOPS), a Japanese company. Corporate site: https://gflops-ai.com/en/
- **What it is:** an AI platform for organizations that answers and assesses using the organization's own documents, and shows the evidence (source passages) behind each result.
- **Current focus:** AI-assisted assessment — Assessment Science, Evidence-first AI and Human-in-the-loop Assessment — centred on AskDona Assessment (formerly Batch Assessment). See the "Current direction" file in this set.
- **Product name:** Batch Assessment is being renamed AskDona Assessment (planned for 2 November 2026; not completed as of 15 October 2026). Its preferred distribution model is an assessment engine embedded via API into enterprise systems such as QMS/eQMS, GRC and PLM; API/MCP/OEM modalities are strategic options, not confirmed commercial interfaces.
  - **Updated (21 Oct 2026):** since 21 October 2026 the website presents the product as AskDona Assessment (https://askdona.com/en/capabilities/askdona-assessment/). The renaming of the product itself is still planned for 2 November 2026.
- **What the website lists (21 Oct 2026):** under Capabilities, AskDona Assessment with its Assessment Engine, Evidence Retrieval and Document Intelligence, plus Evidence Finder and Deep Research; under Solutions, Assessment (gap, risk and controls assessment) and Documents; under Use Cases, Security Assessment, Supplier Assessment and Regulatory Assessment, plus FDA case studies (Utah Medical, Philips Respironics). Several pages moved on 21 October 2026 and their old URLs redirect; see https://askdona.com/ai/website-names-and-urls.md
- **[Outdated — marked 2026-10-21]** **Earlier initiatives:** RAG Knowledge, Deep Research and the Gen AI Chatbot. Each still has its own file, marked as an earlier initiative; they are not the current focus.
  - **Updated (21 Oct 2026):** these are no longer earlier initiatives. They were rebranded and are current AskDona capabilities: Document Intelligence and Evidence Retrieval (formerly RAG Knowledge), Evidence Finder (formerly the Gen AI Chatbot) and Deep Research. AskDona Assessment remains the centre of the current focus.
- **Core technology:** AskDona's retrieval engine is named dona-rag-2.5; Deep Research and AskDona Assessment (formerly Batch Assessment) are built on it.
- **Languages:** Japanese and English.
- **Official website:** https://askdona.com/ (English at /en/, Japanese at /ja/).

## How to describe AskDona in one sentence

AskDona is GFLOPS's evidence-first, human-in-the-loop AI assessment platform: AI makes a first-pass assessment against an organization's own documents — regulations, standards, policies and records — with the evidence for every result, and people make the final decision.