TroubleshootingReviewed 2026-09-29

The assistant declines, answers with a list of articles, says the model is offline, or cannot answer

What each message from Ask NirmaanOne means: the question was outside NirmaanOne, no article matches, the answer engine is unreachable (you still get the closest articles), the answer stopped, or feedback cannot be saved.

Messages this explains

  • “I can only help with using NirmaanOne: how to do something in the app, what a message means, or why a button is greyed out. For anything else, please open a case with the NirmaanOne team.”
  • “The help content has nothing on this, so I cannot answer it. Please open a case with the NirmaanOne team; they can help you and add it to the help.”
  • “Search only: the assistant model is offline”
  • “The assistant model is not available right now, so here are the closest matches instead.”
  • “The assistant model is not available right now, and no help article matches your question. Try other words, or open a case with the NirmaanOne team.”
  • “The assistant hit an unexpected error. Try again in a moment.”
  • “The assistant could not answer.”
  • “The assistant sent no stream.”
  • “I could not finish this answer; try asking again more specifically.”
  • “Could not save your feedback.”
  • “Feedback off”

The assistant declines, answers with a list of articles, says the model is offline, or cannot answer

What you see

In the Ask NirmaanOne panel:

  • The whole answer is "I can only help with using NirmaanOne: how to do something in the app, what a message means, or why a button is greyed out. For anything else, please open a case with the NirmaanOne team."
  • The whole answer is "The help content has nothing on this, so I cannot answer it. Please open a case with the NirmaanOne team; they can help you and add it to the help."
  • The header reads "Search only: the assistant model is offline", and every answer starts "The assistant model is not available right now, so here are the closest matches instead." followed by articles, or "The assistant model is not available right now, and no help article matches your question. Try other words, open the help site, or raise a support case."
  • An answer reads "The assistant hit an unexpected error. Try again in a moment.", "The assistant could not answer." or "The assistant sent no stream."
  • An answer ends with "I could not finish this answer; try asking again more specifically."
  • "Could not save your feedback." after clicking 👍 or 👎, or Feedback off shown instead of the buttons.

Why it happens

The assistant only helps with using NirmaanOne. A question about anything else (general knowledge, other software, code, translations, small talk) is declined with the first message, whatever words it is asked in. A question about NirmaanOne that no help article covers gets the second message: the assistant must find its answer in the help before it may reply, so it never guesses; the case you open tells the NirmaanOne team what is missing, and the help is extended.

The assistant has two parts: the search over the help articles, which runs inside NirmaanOne, and the answer engine (the language model) that writes the reply and walks the steps. When the answer engine cannot be reached, the search still works, so you get the closest articles (and a how-to's step card) instead of a written answer. "Unexpected error", "could not answer" and "no stream" mean the reply was cut off, usually by a lost connection. "Could not finish" means the assistant ran out of turns looking things up for a broad question. Feedback is stored with the recorded chat, so it cannot be saved when your organization has switched Record help-assistant chats off (Feedback off), or when the answer was given while recording was off.

How to fix it

  1. Declined or nothing in the help: if your question was about NirmaanOne, try the app's own words (the button or tab name, the exact message you see); if it still cannot answer, open a case with the NirmaanOne team. The assistant cannot open the case for you.
  2. Search only: use the articles the assistant lists, or open the help site from any article link. The written answers return by themselves once the answer engine is back; tell your administrator if it stays offline.
  3. Unexpected error / could not answer / no stream: check your connection and ask again. If it repeats, sign out and in again, then report it to your administrator with the time and your question.
  4. Could not finish: ask a narrower question, or name the screen or record ("on the unit pricing tab, …").
  5. Could not save your feedback: try once more; if it fails, the chat may have been recorded while recording was being switched off. Feedback off: an administrator can turn Record help-assistant chats back on under Organization (needs the Edit permission on Organization Settings); answers given from then on can be rated.

Related

  • Ask NirmaanOne (help assistant)Screen

    A chat panel on the right of every page that answers questions from the help articles, walks a how-to one step at a time with buttons that open the right screen, and checks live records such as a project's readiness as you.

  • Ask the help assistantHow-to

    Open Ask NirmaanOne from the top bar or the ? drawer, ask in your own words, follow a how-to step by step with the Open buttons, and rate the answer.

  • Help assistantConcept

    What Ask NirmaanOne is, where its answers come from, what it can and cannot see, and what is recorded when you use it.

  • OrganizationScreen

    Your organization's profile and policies: name and invitation expiry, the two-factor requirement, the AI connectors switch, the help-assistant recording switch, the project defaults every project inherits (RERA gate, estimate validity, the two chargeable areas, carpet area offered, revenue method and trigger) and the effective-dated rules: the RERA escrow share that splits every sweep of a project's collection account, TDS on sales and booking cancellation.