Your knowledge base, in the side panel of every tab

BeforeQuery ships a browser extension (Chrome, Edge, Opera) that opens your knowledge base in the browser's side panel. Ask questions about the page you're on, look up an API without leaving your editor, or pull an internal policy answer without breaking flow.

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What the extension does

The same answers as the widget, in a side panel that follows every tab

Answer without leaving the page

Side-Panel Chat

Chrome MV3 side panel, docked next to any tab
Full RAG chat with citations, the same as the widget
Streams answers in real time, works offline for cached questions
History and threads persist across tabs and sessions
One keyboard shortcut opens the panel from anywhere

The page becomes part of the question

Context-Aware Questions

The current URL / selection can be included as context
Ask 'summarise this ticket' or 'what does this error mean' about the page
Grounded strictly in your indexed knowledge, not the open web
Falls back transparently when the KB doesn't cover it
Never sends page content to third parties

Same knowledge, everywhere

Workspace-Aware

Signs in with the same account as the dashboard
Scoped to the knowledge bases you have access to
Restricted documents visible only where permissions allow
Feedback thumbs feed the same evals as widget and bots
Traces record every extension query for observability

Where support agents and engineers actually work

In-flow answers beat search-and-tab

A support agent lives in a helpdesk tab; an engineer lives in the IDE and the code-review tab; an ops person lives in a runbook or a monitoring dashboard. Alt-tabbing to a docs search box breaks flow — and often gets skipped, so the wrong answer wins by default. The side panel keeps the assistant docked wherever the work is happening, which is the only way it gets used consistently.

Chrome, Edge, and Opera (MV3 side panel)
SSO/OIDC sign-in from your identity provider
Works alongside the Slack/Teams/Discord bots — same answer everywhere
Free plan available for individual use
IT-friendly: managed install via enterprise policy is supported

What teams say

Deployed in production, cited by the buyers who chose it

“Deployed on our docs site in an afternoon. Every answer has citations, and the abstention gate means we've never had a customer complain about a made-up answer.”

Priya Nair

Head of Customer Support · Supabase

“The knowledge base connected to our Slack, Confluence, and helpdesk in one setup. On-call teams get the same cited answer whether they ask in chat, in the widget, or from Cursor.”

Tom Richter

IT Operations Manager · Grafana Labs

“The gap analytics turned into a real docs backlog. Deflection went up because we finally knew which pages were missing — the AI told us.”

Ana Castillo

VP of Customer Experience · Clerk

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Browser Extension

Chrome, Edge, and Opera — anything on Chromium's MV3 with the side-panel API. Firefox support is on the roadmap but not shipping today; Safari is not planned.

Only when you ask it a question that includes the page as context — the current URL or a text selection is sent as part of that one question. It never scrapes tabs in the background and never sends anything to third parties.

Yes. Support agents typically live in a helpdesk tab; the side panel means the AI is always one shortcut away without leaving the ticket. Answers come from the same knowledge base as the helpdesk copilot drafts, so consistency is guaranteed.

Yes. The extension supports enterprise policy install via Chrome / Edge managed policies, and it authenticates through your identity provider (OIDC / SAML) so no per-user setup is needed.

Yes. Restricted documents are visible in the side panel only to the workspace members who have permission — the same access controls as the dashboard and Slack/Teams bots apply.

Put the knowledge base in every tab

Install the extension in one click and sign in with your BeforeQuery account. Team-wide install is available on Pro.

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