Asking the assistant to critique a project: what it reads and how often

How do I get feedback on my project from the assistant, and how many reviews can I ask for a day?

Ask for it in plain words. Open a chat on the project page and say "what do you think of this project", or name the project in any chat, and the assistant studies the sheets itself and writes a critique of the concept, the site response, the drawings, the narrative, the genuine strengths and the specific gaps. It costs no render credits. You need to be signed in, and there is a limit on how many you can ask for in a day.

It reads the sheets, not the reception

The critique is built from the boards themselves, in the order they appear on the project, plus any text printed on them. It does not read the comments, the ratings, the jury scores or how many views the project has, so it will not tell you how the work was received. What it gives you is a reading of the presentation as a stranger would meet it.

Up to 16 sheets are studied. If a project has more, the first 16 in display order are read and the reply says how many of the total that was. Do not ask it to critique a project whose sheets are missing or unreadable: it will say it could not read any and stop rather than invent a review.

What you can ask it to review

Any published project on UNI, whether or not it is yours. Ask about someone else's work and it will study it the same way.

Your own work is the exception to the published rule. If you are on the project's team, it can review the project even before you publish it, which is the point at which a critique is worth the most.

How many reviews you get a day

  1. Without a membership: 3 a day.
  2. On Weekly, Monthly, Semester, Annual or Studio: 10 a day.
  3. On Institutional: 25 a day.

The count resets each day at midnight UTC. A review that fails does not use one up, because your count only moves after a critique is actually produced, so a timeout or an unreachable image costs you nothing.

When you hit the limit the assistant says so plainly and tells you it resets tomorrow. Nothing is charged, and no credits are involved at any point.

Getting a better critique

Ask a specific question after the review lands. The sheets stay in that exchange, so "push harder on the site strategy" or "what would a jury pick apart first" gets you a sharper second pass than asking for the whole thing again, and it does not use another of your daily reviews.

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