Welcome to the Bilby Help Center
How to research with Bilby, step by step. Written for the people who use it every day.
2 min read · Updated 31 Oct 2026
Bilby answers questions about policy, regulation and the people behind them. It reads the news, official sources and your organization's own documents, and every answer shows where it came from. You can turn an answer into a brief, follow a topic with Radar, or keep a project's research together in a vault.
New to Bilby? Start with Ask your first question. It takes about four minutes.
Start here
Four guides, in this order. Together they take about fifteen minutes.
- Sign in and join your organization: accept the invitation and sign in.
- Ask your first question: type it the way you'd ask a colleague.
- Check where an answer came from: open the sources.
- Turn an answer into a brief: download it or share a link.
Find your way
Chapters are in the order people use them most. Each guide ends with a button that opens Bilby on the right page.
| Chapter | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Ask Bilby | Asking and following up, sources, attachments, rating an answer |
| Your data and Library | What Bilby reads, your organization's documents, the Library |
| Briefs and charts | Briefs, charts and timelines; downloading and sharing them |
| Daily briefings | The Asia Daily Take and the Predictions Machine |
| Radar | Following a topic, Radar's emails, Radar scores |
| Vaults | A shared space for one project's files and chats |
| Developers | API keys, your first API call, the MCP server |
Try it in Bilby
Ask your first question. We've typed one in for you.
"What changed in Malaysia's data protection rules this year?" Change it to anything you like, then press Send.