OrionAI 1.0.0
OrionAI 1.0.0Released 12 October 2026
The first versioned release of OrionAI. It records everything OrionAI can do today across Answers, Map Studio, forms and dashboards, as the baseline for every release that follows.
Read the announcement: Introducing OrionAI 1.0
OrionAI 1.0.0 is the first release with a version number. Nothing changed for users on this date. It records what is already live, so later releases can say exactly what changed.
#What OrionAI can do
| Where | What you can ask | What you get back |
|---|---|---|
Answers (/ai, or the search box at the top of any page) | A spatial question in plain language, such as "Which schools in Meru county are more than 5 km from a health facility?" | A map, the steps that were taken, and the result as a dataset you can download or add to a project |
| Home ("Make the map") | A description of the map you want | A new Map Studio draft, with the assistant already building it |
| Map Studio assistant | Find and add data, style layers, run processing tools, search satellite imagery, save and publish the map | Changes to the map you have open |
| Forms | Describe a survey in a sentence, or ask for changes to a draft | A draft form you can review, edit and deploy |
| Dashboards | A question about the submissions behind the dashboard | An answer computed from the submissions themselves |
#Answers
- Analysis operations: select zones, zonal statistics, composite index, classify, clip raster, buffer and intersect, dissolve and aggregate, and point in polygon.
- Results you can check: every answer lists the steps it ran and the source datasets it used.
- Labelled results: each result is saved as a dataset, labelled as generated by OrionAI in the catalogue.
- History: past answers are kept in your history and can be reopened or downloaded.
#Map Studio assistant
- Works on the map you have open: its layers, styling, basemap and view.
- Runs Map Studio's processing tools, including vector overlay, statistics, grids such as H3, and raster and terrain tools.
- Searches the OrionGIS catalogue and STAC imagery catalogues, and adds results to the map.
#Forms
- Drafts a complete form from a sentence: questions, choice lists and question types.
- Revises the open draft from your feedback, keeping the questions you already have.
- When you ask it to research a topic, it searches the web first and lists the sources it used.
#Dashboards
- Answers questions about the submissions behind a dashboard: counts, totals, averages, highest and lowest values, comparisons by facility or month, and gaps in coverage.
- The figures are calculated directly from the submissions, not estimated by the AI.
#Limits
- Free accounts include a monthly allowance of AI answers; paid plans include more.
- Each surface has its own assistant in this release. They do not yet share context or history.
- Answers is limited to the analysis operations listed above.
See Ask Orion AI for how to use it.