# Practice Brain

> Add a source your team asks about every week to Practice Brain, and check that Sidekick answers from it.

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Tabflows 101, Module 6 · Admin track 6 min · Team track 5 min

Add a source your team asks about every week to Practice Brain, and check that Sidekick answers from it.

Practice Brain is where your clinic teaches Tabflows what is true for your practice: policies, pricing, services, workflows and patient instructions. Sidekick answers from it, so "What is our cancellation policy?" gets your clinic's answer instead of a generic one.

Start small, with a few current, approved sources your team uses every week, and test each one. Its Awareness tab is the other half: notes Sidekick keeps on how your team works, which you can read and correct.

## Topics

### Know where Sidekick gets clinic answers

**Practice Brain** holds your clinic's approved documents, such as policies, pricing and SOPs. Its **Awareness** tab is a document Sidekick writes as it learns how your team works.

Tip: How you personally want drafts to sound belongs in a Preference, not in Practice Brain.

- [How do I set up Practice Brain](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/how-do-i-set-up-practice-brain)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/how-do-i-set-up-practice-brain.md
- [What is Practice Awareness](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/what-is-practice-awareness)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/what-is-practice-awareness.md

### Add an approved source

Start with one current, approved document your team uses often. Test it in Sidekick before adding more.

1. Go to **Practice Brain** and stay on the **Documents** tab.
2. Choose where it goes: **Add Text & Documents** for a Google Doc or Sheet link, **Website Sync** for your clinic website, or **Upload your files** for a PDF, CSV, Excel, Numbers or Word file. Only Admins can edit links or Website Sync.
3. Practice Brain lists each source by its own name, so name it clearly first. Paste the link and save, or drop the file, then wait for it to finish processing.
4. Ask Sidekick a question the source should answer and compare the answer with the document.

Tip: Start with the 10–20 things your team answers most often.

- [How do I set up Practice Brain](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/how-do-i-set-up-practice-brain)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/how-do-i-set-up-practice-brain.md
- [Teach Sidekick about your practice](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/teach-sidekick-about-your-practice)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/teach-sidekick-about-your-practice.md

### Choose what to add, and what to keep out

Good sources are current, approved, clearly named and about one topic: pricing sheets, policies, SOPs, workflows and patient handouts. Keep out patient-specific details, passwords and other secrets.

Tip: Files can be up to 25 MB (CSV up to 5 MB). Linked Google Docs, Sheets and websites have no size limit.

- [What files should I upload to Practice Brain](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/what-files-should-i-upload-to-practice-brain)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/what-files-should-i-upload-to-practice-brain.md
- [How do I set up Practice Brain](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/how-do-i-set-up-practice-brain)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/how-do-i-set-up-practice-brain.md

### Read and correct Practice Awareness

Sidekick writes Practice Awareness, but your team owns it. Fix anything wrong or out of date so Sidekick works from the current version.

1. Go to **Practice Brain** and select the **Awareness** tab.
2. Click **Edit**, make your change, and click **Save**.
3. Or tell Sidekick, for example: "Update the awareness: our cancellation policy is now 24 hours."

Tip: If you see **Only Admins can edit** instead of **Edit**, ask an Admin to make the change.

- [How to review and edit Practice Awareness](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/how-to-review-and-edit-practice-awareness)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/how-to-review-and-edit-practice-awareness.md

### Decide who can update Practice Awareness (Admin track)

By default, Practice Awareness learns from everyone's Sidekick conversations. You can limit updates to Admins; everyone can still read it.

1. On the **Awareness** tab, scroll down to **Practice Awareness Settings**.
2. Turn on **Only Admins can update Practice Awareness** if you want tighter control.

- [Who can update Practice Awareness](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/who-can-update-practice-awareness)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/who-can-update-practice-awareness.md

## Read
- [How do I set up Practice Brain](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/how-do-i-set-up-practice-brain)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/how-do-i-set-up-practice-brain.md
- [What is Practice Awareness](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/what-is-practice-awareness)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/what-is-practice-awareness.md
- [What files should I upload to Practice Brain](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/what-files-should-i-upload-to-practice-brain)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/what-files-should-i-upload-to-practice-brain.md
- [Teach Sidekick about your practice](https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/teach-sidekick-about-your-practice)
  Markdown: https://www.tabflows.com/university/library/practice-brain/teach-sidekick-about-your-practice.md

## Do it in Tabflows

Add one source your team asks about every week, then test it.

1. Open **Practice Brain** from the sidebar.
2. On **Documents**, add one file under **Upload your files**, such as your cancellation policy. Leave out patient details and passwords.
3. Wait for it to finish processing.
4. Open Sidekick with no patient selected and ask a question the source answers.
5. Compare the answer with the source. If it's off, fix the wording or conflicts, update it in Practice Brain, and ask again.

## Related markdown

Alongside this page:

- [Automations](https://www.tabflows.com/university/tabflows-101/automations.md)
- [Magic buttons](https://www.tabflows.com/university/tabflows-101/magic-buttons.md)
- [Mobile](https://www.tabflows.com/university/tabflows-101/mobile.md)
- [Security basics](https://www.tabflows.com/university/tabflows-101/security-basics.md)
- [Set up your clinic](https://www.tabflows.com/university/tabflows-101/set-up-your-clinic.md)
- [Sidekick](https://www.tabflows.com/university/tabflows-101/sidekick.md)
- [Tasks](https://www.tabflows.com/university/tabflows-101/tasks.md)
- [Team chat](https://www.tabflows.com/university/tabflows-101/team-chat.md)

Start here:

- [Tabflows](https://www.tabflows.com/index.md)
- [Tabflows pricing](https://www.tabflows.com/pricing.md)
- [Tabflows FAQ](https://www.tabflows.com/faqs.md)
- [About Tabflows](https://www.tabflows.com/about.md)
- [Contact Tabflows](https://www.tabflows.com/contact.md)
- [DPC workflow software](https://www.tabflows.com/dpc-workflow-software.md)
- [Directory](https://www.tabflows.com/directory.md)
- [Workflows](https://www.tabflows.com/workflows.md)
- [DPC finder](https://www.tabflows.com/dpc-finder.md)

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