How does AskMD decide what to say in response to my question?

When you submit a question, AskMD's AI performs several steps:

1. Intent classification — determines what kind of question you're asking (gathering information, clinical reasoning, finding a doctor, or cost information)
2. Clinical context retrieval — searches its knowledge base for relevant clinical guidelines and examples
3. Response generation — a large language model (Claude, by Anthropic) generates a personalized response informed by your question, your health profile, and the retrieved context
4. Response validation — the output is checked before being shown to you