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title: Site AI Settings
description: >-
  Control Site-level AI features in Clear Ideas, including AI Chat, summaries,
  enhanced search, MCP access, and third-party credit behavior.
ogTitle: Site AI Settings Guide
ogDescription: >-
  Configure Site-level AI Chat, summaries, enhanced search, MCP access, and
  credit behavior for a governed workspace.
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# Site AI Settings

Use **Site Settings > AI** to decide which governed AI capabilities are available inside a specific Site.

Site AI settings are for workspace-level control. They help you keep AI grounded in the right approved documents, expose MCP only where it is intended, and apply tighter limits to sensitive Sites.

## Who Can Manage Site AI Settings

You need Site-level administrative access to change these settings.

## Available Site-Level Controls

The Site AI settings currently include controls for:

- **AI Chat**
- **AI document summaries**
- **AI enhanced search**
- **MCP access**
- **Use credits for third-party AI access**

## What Each Setting Does

### AI Chat

Turn this on when users in the Site should be able to ask cited, permission-aware questions against that Site's approved documents.

### AI Document Summaries

Turn this on when users should see generated document summaries in supported viewers and file experiences.

### AI Enhanced Search

Turn this on when the Site should support semantic or hybrid retrieval beyond exact keyword matching.

### MCP Access

Turn this on only for Sites that should be reachable through approved MCP integrations.

This is a good way to keep external assistant access limited to the workspaces that truly need it.

### Use Credits for Third-Party AI Access

Where supported in your environment, this setting controls whether the Site can use Clear Ideas credits for approved third-party AI activity tied to that Site.

Use it carefully in Sites where cost allocation or external AI access needs tighter control.

## How Site AI Settings Interact With Other Controls

Site AI settings are downstream controls. They can narrow access, but they cannot enable a capability that is already blocked at the organization or account level.

The practical order is:

1. **Organization policy**
2. **Account AI settings**
3. **Site AI settings**

## Dependencies

AI features rely on the Site's approved content being available for retrieval and indexing.

If AI answers, summaries, or enhanced search do not behave as expected, also review:

- [Content Indexing](/site-administrator-guide/content-indexing)
- [Advanced Search Settings](/site-administrator-guide/advanced-search-settings)

## Recommended Uses

Use Site AI settings to:

- enable governed AI only in the workspaces that need it
- keep MCP limited to selected Sites
- support cited answers over approved documents
- apply different AI controls across diligence rooms, board Sites, client portals, and internal workspaces

## Related Documentation

- [AI Settings](/ai/ai-settings)
- [AI Chat](/ai/ai-chat)
- [AI Credits](/ai/ai-credits)
- [Model Context Protocol](/ai/model-context-protocol)
- [Content Indexing](/site-administrator-guide/content-indexing)
- [Advanced Search Settings](/site-administrator-guide/advanced-search-settings)