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Step 1
Open your scenario or workspace
WorkspaceScenario
Go to the product workspace where you are preparing a scenario, model, solver, or analysis run.
AI features How-To
How to use AI Configure
This guide helps you configure a scenario with confidence. You will learn what AI Config is for, how to review required inputs, how to choose configuration options, and how to validate setup before running the model.
Guide details
Audience
AI feature users
Time
4 minutes
Category
AI features
What this guide covers
This guide helps you configure a scenario with confidence. You will learn what AI Config is for, how to review required inputs, how to choose configuration options, and how to validate setup before running the model.
Understand what AI Config is for
Review required inputs
Choose configuration options
Check assumptions and setup rules
Validate readiness before running
Use AI guidance to avoid setup issues
About this feature
What is AI Configure?
AI Configure is MAG OptiAI's before-run setup assistant. It helps you prepare the right configuration before launching a scenario, model, solver, or analysis workflow across all products.
You can ask AI Configure questions about your data, scenario, and operational goal. Depending on the product, it can help recommend the right solver, algorithm, or model setup; suggest runtime or run settings; align the objective or analysis target with your goal; and explain configuration trade-offs before you run.
Ask setup questions
Ask clear questions about how to configure your current scenario before running the model, solver, or analysis workflow.
Choose the right method
Get guidance on the solver, algorithm, or model setup that fits your product, data, problem type, and operational goal.
Tune run settings
Review runtime, thresholds, constraints, horizons, or other product-specific settings before launching the run.
Align the objective
Choose the right optimization objective, analysis target, or output goal so the run matches what you want to improve.
AI Configure works before the run.
It helps you understand and adjust setup choices before results are generated. After the run, use AI Explain to understand the output.
AI Configure
Before the run
Run
Solve / Analyze
AI Explain
After the run
When to use it
When should you use AI Configure?
Use AI Configure before you run a scenario, model, solver, or analysis workflow. It helps you ask setup questions, review configuration choices, and get a recommended setup before results are generated.
Before running a scenario
Review the setup before launching a run to make sure it matches your operational goal and scenario context.
When setup choices are unclear
Ask for guidance when you are not sure which setting, objective, solver, model option, threshold, horizon, or configuration choice to select.
When you need a recommended setup
Ask AI Configure to recommend a setup based on your current data, product, and operational goal.
Use AI Configure before results are generated.
It helps you prepare the setup. After the run, use AI Explain to understand the output.
AI Configure
Before the run
Run
Solve / Analyze
AI Explain
After the run
Step by step
Follow the task path
Use these steps to ask AI Configure for setup guidance, review the recommendation, and apply only the changes that fit your scenario before running.
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Step 2
Open AI Configure
AI ConfigureBefore run
Find the AI Configure assistant in the Configure step before the run. This is where you ask setup questions and get recommendations before results are generated.
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Step 3
Ask a clear setup question
Setup questionRecommendation
Use the AI Configuration Assistant on the right to ask a setup question. You can pick a suggested prompt or write your own, then generate a suggestion.
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Step 4
Review and apply the recommendation
ReviewApply
Review the suggested configuration in the AI Configuration Assistant, then apply it only if it fits your scenario and operational goal.
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Step 5
Go to the Run step
Run stepContinue
After reviewing the setup, click Next: Run to move to the Run step and continue the workflow.
Tips
Use AI Configure before a run; use AI Explain after a result exists.
Ask one focused setup question at a time.
Review every recommendation before applying it.
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How to use AI Explain
Ask focused questions about generated results so MAG OptiAI can explain KPIs, charts, schedules, routes, model outputs, or document answers using visible output.
How to use What-if Analysis
Test controlled alternatives by changing selected assumptions, constraints, or inputs, then rerun the scenario to see how the outcome changes.
How to use AI Compare
Compare two results side by side to understand what changed between them and decide which option performs better.
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