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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Exploring Now Assist Admin

Learn how Now Assist Admin brings generative AI capabilities to the ServiceNow AI Platform. With Now Assist Admin, you can improve the productivity and efficiency in your organization, deliver better self-service, recommend actions and provide answers, and empower your users to search more effectively.

Now Assist Admin overview

Now Assist is a growing cross-platform family of generative AI features, which are tasks that a large language model (LLM) can perform. Generative AI features are based on the initial training and architecture.

A skill delivers a feature plus the use case to the user. An example of a skill is chat summarization within a customer workspace. Now Assist products provide features and skills that are tailored to meet the needs of users in different workflows.

Now Assist framework

Now Assist products include some or all of the following foundational platform tools for Now Assist. For more information, see Now Assist skills in the Platform workflow.

  • Administrators install plugins, manage skills, and analyze usage and performance with the Overview tab in Now Assist Admin.
  • Users can take advantage of Now Assist skills by using the Now Assist panel on the instance.
  • Use to generate answers for AI Search.
  • Use to run generative AI skills in a mobile environment.
  • Use to create conversational catalog experiences and author topics that use LLM topic discovery.
  • Developers can use the Generative AI Controller to integrate generative AI features in custom flows and conversations by using your own third-party large language model (LLM) licenses.

The following diagram shows what's available in the Now Assist framework.

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The Now Assist framework includes Now Assist Admin, Now Assist panel, and Generative AI Controller. Framework components become available once you install a product such as Now Assist for IT Service Management \(ITSM\).

Now Assist benefits

BenefitFeatureUsers
Leverage the power of search with the Now LLM generative AI model to answer questions in user searches with actionable AI-generated summaries of relevant knowledge articles.Everyone
Install and configure Now Assist applications and the skills they provide.Now Assist Admin consoleAdministrators
Choose which skills to turn on, and which users can access them.Now Assist Admin consoleAdministrators
Monitor the usage and performance of generative AI features and capabilities offered under Now Assist.Now Assist AnalyticsAdministrators
Access generative AI skills in context through a user-friendly interface.Now Assist panelEveryone
Use Now Assist skills on mobile devices.Everyone
Customize your workflows and use your own third-party LLM license.Generative AI ControllerAdministrators or developers
Use Now Assist in other platform features.Now Assist skills in the Platform workflowAdministrators or developers
Monitor Now Assist consumption on your instance.Administrators