Chatting and attachments

The parts of the BORO panel

1. Your message, shown on the right.
2. The tool rows: what BORO looked up or did, here "Listing your projects". Click a row to see its result.
3. BORO's answer, here with a table.
4. The line under the answer: Read aloud and the credits the reply cost, here "−2,2 credits".
5. The message field Message BORO… with the Add (+) menu.
6. The credit chip with the company's balance.
7. The eye button Share current screen with BORO and the context ring.

How to ask BORO something

1. Open the screen you want to talk about, for example the BoQ, the offer request or the schedule.
2. Click BORO in the top bar. To start on a fresh topic, click New conversation (+) in the panel header.
3. Type your request in Message BORO… and press Enter (or click Send). Use Shift+Enter for a new line.
4. Watch the answer arrive. While BORO thinks you see "Thinking…" (Мисли…); tool rows appear as BORO works ("Running actions…", Изпълнявам действия…).
5. If BORO proposes a change, a card Requires approval appears; if it needs a decision, a card Question from BORO appears. Answer them to let BORO continue. See Approvals and background tasks.

What you see in an answer

• Reasoning. For harder questions BORO thinks first. While it thinks you see "Thinking…"; afterwards View reasoning (Виж разсъждението) opens what it considered.
• Tool rows. Each tool call is a row with an icon and a title, for example "Fetch BOQs", "Resource analysis", "Web search" (Търсене в интернет), "Read web page" (Чета уеб страница) or "Analysing with Python" (Анализирам с Python). Several calls at once show "{n} in parallel". Quiet rows such as "Using skill: {name}" (Използвам умение) or "Loading tools: …" (Зареждам инструменти) show BORO preparing. Click a row to see the arguments and result.
• Text, tables and diagrams. Answers use headings, lists and tables. Flowcharts and other diagrams are drawn with Mermaid; if one cannot be drawn you see "This diagram couldn't be displayed." with Show diagram source (Покажи кода на диаграмата).
• Files. A file BORO creates or edits appears as a card with Open (Отвори) and Download (Изтегли), marked "edited" or "version {n}" when it is a new version. Exports such as an Excel BoQ come as a download link.
• Sources. Answers from the web list their sources (title and link). Answers about how BuildColab works link to the page of this guide.
• The meta line. Under a finished answer: Read aloud (Прочети на глас), the model's name when your company shows it, and the cost, for example "−0.8 credits". The cost is an estimate when marked so ("Estimate — the exact charge is in the credit ledger"); the exact charge is in the credit movements. After a reply a short notice "BORO used {n} credits" can also appear.
• Navigation. BORO can open a screen for you ("open the offer requests of this project"). If you did not ask to be taken somewhere, it asks first.

While BORO is working

• Queue a message. Type and press Enter while BORO is answering: the message is queued ("Queued", На опашка) and sent when BORO finishes. The hint reads "BORO is working — press Enter to queue, or Stop." Click the lightning button Send now (Изпрати сега) to send a queued message at once, or the X to remove it.
• Stop. Click the square Stop (Спри) button. BORO stops and the part of the answer already written is kept.
• Leave and come back. BORO keeps working on the server when you close the panel, switch conversations, reload the page or lose the connection. If the connection drops you see "Connection interrupted — BORO keeps working in the background; the reply will appear here shortly." When you return, "BORO is working…" (BORO работи…) shows until the reply is there.
• Jump to the end. If you scrolled up, Latest (Към последното) takes you back to the newest message.

How to let BORO see your screen

The eye button under the message field controls Share current screen with BORO (Споделете текущия екран с BORO). When it is on (the default; tooltip "BORO sees the current screen — click to turn off"), each message carries a short description of the screen you are on: the page, its title, and the main data loaded on it with their identifiers. BORO uses this when you say "this", "here" or "the open offer", and then reads the full details with its tools. When it is off, BORO knows nothing about your screen and asks you, or looks things up by name. Your choice is remembered in this browser.

How to attach files

Attach files when BORO needs to read or use a document: a supplier price list, a measurement protocol for a payment application, an Excel BoQ to import, a drawing or a photo from the site.

1. Click Add (+) in the message field.
2. Choose Attach a file from your computer (Прикачи файл от компютър) and pick up to 8 files, or Attach a file from the file manager (Прикачи файл от файловия мениджър), tick the files in the dialog and click Attach (Прикачи). The file manager dialog shows the files of the current project, or of the company when no project is open.
3. The files appear as chips above the field; "Processing…" (Обработка…) shows while a file is read. Remove one with its X.
4. Type your request and send.

1. The Add (+) button in the message field.
2. Attach a file from your computer.
3. Attach a file from the file manager.
4. Skills and External connections lead to those settings.

Other ways: drag files from your computer onto the panel ("Drop files here", Пуснете файловете тук), drag a file row from the file manager list onto the chat, or paste an image with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on Mac).

For documents such as an Excel BoQ or a PDF, BuildColab keeps the real file for the conversation as well as its text, so BORO can import the actual workbook into a BoQ instead of retyping it. Attached files are not saved to your file manager unless you ask BORO to save them.

How to dictate a message

Where dictation is available, a microphone button appears in the message field.

1. Click the microphone, or press Ctrl+M in the message field. The first time, allow microphone access in the browser. "Starting the microphone…" then "Listening…" (Слушам…) appear.
2. Speak. Dictation detects Bulgarian, English and German by itself. The text appears in the field.
3. Click the microphone again (Stop dictation) to finish, or press Esc (Cancel dictation) to discard. Dictation stops by itself after 5 minutes ("Dictation stopped after 5 minutes.").
4. Check the text and send it. If you press Send while dictating, BORO also reads its reply aloud.

In BORO Settings → Voice (Глас) you can turn on Send automatically after dictation and Read replies aloud after dictation. These settings apply to your browser only. Any finished answer can be read aloud with Read aloud; stop it with Stop reading.

Several conversations at once

You can keep up to three conversations working at the same time, for example one pricing a BoQ and another comparing offers. Start the second one with New conversation while the first is still working. In History, a running conversation shows a spinner, and one that waits for your approval or answer shows a dot ("Waiting for you", Чака вас). When a conversation you are not looking at finishes or needs you, a notice appears: "BORO finished: {title}", "BORO is waiting for approval: {title}" or "BORO is waiting for your answer: {title}", with Open. If you try to start a fourth, BORO shows "3 chats are already running. Wait for one to finish or stop one, then send again."

How to find or delete an earlier conversation

1. Click History (the clock) in the panel header. The list Conversation history (История на разговорите) shows each conversation's title and date, newest first. The open one has a check mark. "No conversations yet." means you have none.
2. Click a conversation to reopen it with all its messages.
3. To delete one, point at it, click the bin Delete conversation (Изтрий разговора), then confirm with Delete (Изтрий) at "Delete?". The conversation disappears from your history; you cannot bring it back. Deleting is not offered on a phone.

Conversations are personal: colleagues do not see your BORO conversations. Credits used in a deleted conversation stay charged.

1. New conversation starts an empty chat.
2. Tasks opens the background tasks.
3. The list Conversation history with title and date.
4. The bin Delete conversation appears when you point at a row.

When to start a new conversation

Everything in a conversation is sent to the AI model again with each message, so a long conversation costs more and BORO's answers can get less precise. The ring next to the eye button shows "{pct}% of context used" (от контекста е използван); point at it to see the split between System prompt, Tools, Memory, Messages, Response and Free. Start a New conversation for each new topic, and when the ring is getting full. Facts that should carry over belong in Memory.

Choosing the model

The chip under the message field shows the model BORO uses. Auto (Авто) lets BORO pick the model for each task: a fast model for everyday work and a stronger one for heavy analysis. If your company is allowed to choose models, click the chip to pick another model for this conversation; the descriptions say which is faster and which costs more. If you cannot click it, your company uses Auto. See Settings, models and credits.

Messages you may see

Common questions

Related

• BORO — AI assistant
• What BORO can do
• Approvals and background tasks
• Memory
• AI features: search, artifacts, diagrams