# 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 2026-10-13.
- Canonical: https://askdona.com/ai/askdona-overview.md
- Sources: https://askdona.com/en/, https://askdona.com/en/platform/, 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 Batch Assessment. See the "Current direction" file in this set.
- **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.
- **Core technology:** AskDona's retrieval engine is named dona-rag-2.5; Deep Research and 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.