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How to use the Involv AI search?

Learn how to search smarter using AI summaries and AI-powered people search in Involv.

1. Overview

The Involv AI search enhances the way employees find information and colleagues across the intranet. By combining AI-assisted prompts, summaries, and people search, users can quickly get contextual answers, discover relevant content, and identify colleagues who can help with specific questions.

This AI-assisted experience works across SharePoint news, documents, and the people directory, making company-wide knowledge easier to access.

2. What you’ll learn

After reading this guide, you will be able to:

  • Understand how the Involv AI search works

  • Use AI summaries to quickly grasp information

  • Perform AI-assisted searches in the people directory

  • Configure and refine AI prompts for better results

3. Watch interactive tutorial

Step-by-step explanation

  1. How does the Involv AI search work?
    Involv AI search combines traditional search results with AI-generated summaries and suggestions to guide users toward relevant content and people.

  2. Activate AI-assisted search
    To start searching with AI, activate the "AI Assisted" toggle in the search interface.

  3. Use suggested AI prompts
    Suggested AI prompts are displayed immediately. Select one of these prompts to quickly start your search.

  4. View the AI summary
    A clear and concise AI-generated summary is shown instantly, helping you understand the topic without opening multiple results.

  5. Explore follow-up suggestions
    The AI provides suggestions for next actions or related searches, allowing you to refine or deepen your query.

  6. Another common example
    You can repeat the same process with a different question to see how AI adapts to new search intents.

  7. Find relevant colleagues
    As a result, Involv AI returns colleagues who can help answer your question based on expertise and profile information.

  8. People-focused search experience
    The AI search integrates seamlessly with the people directory.

  9. Access profile pages easily
    Direct links to colleague profile pages are available, enabling quick contact or follow-up.

  10. Search across the entire company
    You can perform AI-assisted searches across your entire organization by activating the "AI Assisted" toggle and entering your query.

  11. Define what AI should look for
    You can clearly define the scope and intent of your AI search.

  12. Set your AI prompt
    Adjust or write your own AI prompt to guide the search toward specific content, roles, or topics.

  13. Get relevant content results
    In this example, AI finds a recent news article about a new CIO across SharePoint news, documents, and other sources.

  14. Learn more about Involv AI
    Explore additional Involv AI features to further enhance search, discovery, and employee engagement.

 

4. New in 5.3 release – January 2026

With the 5.3 release, the Involv AI search is further enhanced to deliver faster, smarter, and more flexible search experiences:

  • Optimized AI queries
    Improved query handling ensures more accurate and relevant results across content and people search.

  • Intelligent search suggestions
    Users now receive smarter, context-aware suggestions to refine or continue their search more efficiently.

  • Reprompt capability
    You can easily adjust or reprompt your AI query without starting a new search, allowing for quick iteration and refinement.

  • Microsoft Copilot integration (beta)
    Involv AI introduces a beta integration with Microsoft Copilot, enabling closer alignment between intranet search and Microsoft 365 AI experiences.