# Search Assistant — Search Results

![Search Assistant — Search Results](/docs-content/3f20710ec8-02-search-results.png.webp)

**Navigation:** Explore → Search Assistant → Search Results  
**Primary audience:** all permitted search users

## Purpose

Search Results exposes the evidence retrieved for a query so users can investigate sources directly, compare versions, identify contradictions, and assemble a supported answer.

## Scope controls and indicators

Query contains the active search expression. Period limits source dates. Source filters meetings, documents, email, calendar, or other authorized types. Sort selects relevance, recency, source, or another permitted order.

Results shows total matches. Meetings, Documents, and Email & Calendar show source distribution under the active filters.

## Filters and result list

Filters can include business object, source type, author or speaker, date, evidence type, review state, current version, and exact or semantic match. Each result shows source, excerpt, relevance, date, linked object, version state, and match explanation.

## Evidence preview

Selecting a result opens the full authorized excerpt, source metadata, date, timestamp or section, related object, current-version status, and neighboring context. It also identifies related results and contradictions.

## Supporting analysis

**Result distribution** summarizes source types. **Answer readiness** checks corroborating sources, current versions, direct evidence, and contradictions. It indicates whether the result set can support a cited answer; it does not guarantee that the proposed answer is correct.

## Actions

- Refine filters and sort.
- Open the original source.
- Add selected results to an answer workspace.
- Compare document or record versions.
- Build an evidence answer.
- Save or monitor the question.
- Export selected permitted evidence with provenance.

## Recommended procedure

Begin with direct and current sources, inspect context, and compare contradictory results. Select only evidence that directly supports the question. Use Ask after the result set is sufficiently complete.

## States and permissions

Results removed by a permission change no longer expose content but remain noted in permitted search history. Stale indexing, unavailable source, and superseded-version states are explicit.

## Related screens

[Ask](/documentation/packages/bnd-search/screens/explore-search-ask), [Saved Questions](/documentation/packages/bnd-search/screens/explore-search-saved-questions), and [Meeting Context](/documentation/packages/bnd-evidence/screens/home-meetings-context).