ℹ️ Good to know: A Mini isn't a chatbot or a generic AI assistant — it's a person-centred AI agent, purpose-built for the care sector. For the principles behind how Minis work, see the Minikai System Card.
A Mini is a person-centred AI agent that represents a specific person receiving care. Every client, participant, or resident your organisation supports gets their own Mini — and that Mini has a complete understanding of all the documentation surrounding their care.
When you open a Mini, you're not chatting with a generic AI. You're interacting with an agent that knows that person's care plans, progress notes, incidents, assessments, charts, and any other records that have been uploaded. It can search across all of that information and give you grounded, cited responses.
You might ask a Mini to summarise how someone's been tracking over the past month, pull up their most recent behaviour of concern, draft a family update, or help you write a progress note. Every response includes citations that link back to the original records, so you can always check the source.
Minis also support speech to text, so you can speak your observations and then work with the Mini to format them into a structured note. Chats you have with a Mini are private — no one else in your team can see your conversations.
You'll only see Minis for the people you're assigned to support. Access is managed by your workspace admin through groups.
💡 Tip: For practical advice on getting the best responses from a Mini, see Good practices for using Minis.
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