Now Assist for Smart Assessment Engine

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated May 26, 2026
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    Summary of Now Assist for Smart Assessment Engine

    Now Assist for Smart Assessment Engine (SAE) is a ServiceNow application designed to help your teams efficiently draft responses to assessments by leveraging previously answered questions from both classic and smart assessments as well as supporting documents. This capability accelerates response times, reduces manual effort, and enhances understanding of record context.

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    Key Features

    • Generative AI Skills: Utilize AI-powered assistance to generate assessment replies based on historical data and documents.
    • Configurable Application: Customize and configure the Now Assist for SAE application within your environment to align with your processes.
    • Licensing and Access: Feature availability varies depending on your ServiceNow license tier and geographic region, with some AI models and features restricted in regulated or specific data center environments.
    • Data Handling and Privacy: Data is transferred from individual customer instances to centralized ServiceNow environments and possibly third-party cloud providers under strict compliance policies. Customers can opt out of data collection used for improving ServiceNow AI technologies.

    Important Considerations

    • AI Limitations: Since the application relies on AI and machine learning, outputs may not always be accurate or complete. Customers must validate AI-generated content and maintain human oversight, especially for critical use cases in sectors like healthcare, finance, or security.
    • Regulatory and Regional Restrictions: Some AI features are unavailable in certain regulated markets, data centers (e.g., FedRAMP, NSC DOD IL5, Australia IRAP-Protected), and for self-hosted customers.
    • Support and Troubleshooting: Access resources such as the ServiceNow Community on AI, Known Error Portal, and Customer Service for assistance.

    What You Can Expect

    By implementing Now Assist for Smart Assessment Engine, your teams can expect faster, more consistent assessment responses with reduced manual effort. However, due to AI's evolving nature and regulatory constraints, it is critical to monitor output quality and remain aware of feature availability based on your licensing and environment.

    Use the ServiceNow®Now Assist for Smart Assessment Engine application to empower your teams to draft assessment responses by reusing previously answered questions from classic and smart assessments along with supporting documents. Quickly understand record context, reduce manual effort, and respond to assessments faster.

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    Note:
    Depending on your license, you will have access to certain application features, generative AI skills, agentic workflows, and AI agents. For more information, see ServiceNow product tiers.
    Important:
    • Not all model providers are available for customers with in-country SKUs, and some AI products/features are currently unavailable for in-country customers. For more information, see the KB1584492 article in the Now Support Knowledge Base. Be sure to check for model provider availability updates in future releases.
    • Some AI products/features are currently unavailable for customers in the FedRAMP, NSC DOD IL5, or Australia IRAP-Protected data centers, self-hosted customers, or in other restricted environments. For more information, see the KB0743854 article in the Now Support Knowledge Base. Be sure to check for availability updates in future releases.
    • Some AI products/features are currently available only for customers in some regions. Be sure to check for availability updates in future releases.
    • Some AI products and skills are not available in Regulated Markets. For more information, see KB2593939: Regulated Markets AI Products/Skills Not Available. Be sure to check for availability updates in future releases.

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    AI limitations

    This application uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, which are rapidly evolving fields of study that generate predictions based on patterns in data. As a result, this application may not always produce accurate, complete, or appropriate information. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that this application has been fully trained or tested for your use case. To mitigate these issues, it is your responsibility to test and evaluate your use of this application for accuracy, harm, and appropriateness for your use case, employ human oversight of output, and refrain from relying solely on AI-generated outputs for decision-making purposes. This is especially important if you choose to deploy this application in areas with consequential impacts such as healthcare, finance, legal, employment, security, or infrastructure. You agree to abide by ServiceNow’s AI Acceptable Use Policy, which may be updated by ServiceNow.

    Data processing

    This application requires data to be transferred from ServiceNow customers' individual instances to a centralized ServiceNow environment, which may be located in a different data center region from the one where your instance is, and potentially to a third-party cloud provider, such as Microsoft Azure. This data is handled per ServiceNow's internal policies and procedures, including our policies available through our CORE Compliance Portal.

    Data collection

    ServiceNow collects and uses the inputs, outputs, and edits to outputs of this application to develop and improve ServiceNow technologies including ServiceNow models and AI products. In addition, this application will collect incident data (for Incident Assist and Knowledge Assist) and chat transcripts (for Chat Assist). Customers can opt out of future data collection at any time, as described in the Now Assist Opt-Out page.

    For more information, see the Now Assist documentation.