Use AI chat
Ask AI chat to build or change a form, translate it, explain your answers, or do workspace tasks for you.
Open AI chat
Click Ask anything in the bottom-right corner, or press ⌘+A / Ctrl+A. The chat floats over the page and stays open while you work, and its suggestions follow the page you are on. Say what you need in a sentence. If you are not sure yet, try “Help me create a form” and AI asks questions until it has what it needs. AI chat needs a signed-in account and runs on AI credits.
Reply language and chat history
AI replies in your dashboard language; ask for another, such as “reply in French”. New chat clears the conversation for good, and Minimize hides it and keeps it.
Build a form
Describe the form: who it is for, what it should collect, and anything special such as a payment, a file upload or a question that appears only after a certain answer. AI builds the pages, questions, validation and logic, in a new form or in the one you have open. A detailed first message gets you a closer first draft, for example:
Job application for a senior backend role. Ask for name, email, country, years of experience, a GitHub link and a CV upload (required). Ask if they need visa sponsorship, and if yes, ask a follow-up question.
From a PDF or a screenshot
Attach a paper form, a PDF or a screenshot to your message, and AI builds matching questions. You can attach up to 5 files per message: JPEG, PNG or WebP up to 3 MB, GIF or PDF up to 1 MB. For a long or dense PDF, switch to Claude Sonnet 4.6 first.
Change a form
Keep chatting to change the result, or edit it by hand between messages. AI sees the form as it is now. For example: “Add a phone number after email”, “Make question 3 required”, or “Split this into two pages”.
To have AI check answers while people fill in the form, add an AI Validation block (Pro).
Translate
In Translate, AI fills in missing translations, updates outdated ones and polishes them, in one language or several. See Translating form content. AI can also translate a submission into your language.
Ask about your answers
On the Submissions tab, ask about your responses, or pick a suggestion such as Give me the headline or Find trends and outliers.
Workspace tasks
AI chat can also create forms and folders, publish forms, send and follow requests, and set up share links.
AI asks first
Before AI publishes, unpublishes or deletes something, changes a share link, or cancels a request, it shows the action with Approve and Deny, and does nothing until you approve.
Choosing a model
Pick a model with the model button under the message box; it applies to the current chat. Claude Haiku 4.5, the default, builds and edits forms well. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is better for questions about your answers, harder tasks and dense PDFs, and costs three times as much.
Your own AI tool
You can also work with Formstep from your own AI tool, such as Claude or ChatGPT. That uses no Formstep credits. See Connect an AI agent.