Clarity Platform

What is Clarity?

Clarity is Yale’s secure, scalable AI platform that provides Yale faculty, students, and staff access to a range of AI models - including GPT, Claude, and others - to support their work and research. Developed in response to the Yale Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, Clarity provides equitable access to a generative AI tool while keeping individual and university data private which also means that conversations are never used to train AI models.

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Introduction to the Clarity Platform

Demo of the Clarity Agent Portal

Key Features

Secure Connections: Instead of connecting to AI services directly (which is less secure), Clarity uses private, encrypted connections with proper security credentials. It’s like having a private, guarded tunnel instead of using a public road. 
Choice of AI Models: Users can choose different AI models for different tasks such as creating or reviewing code vs. summarizing documents or analyzing data.
Custom Agent Creation: Users with approved use cases can create their own Custom Agent in Clarity, controlling the system prompts, knowledge sources, and user access.
API Keys: Users with approved use cases can request API keys to their Custom Agents for use in applications outside of Clarity.
Built for Scale: Clarity can handle thousands of users across the University without slowing down.
Accessible Design: The Clarity Platform follows accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.1 AA), so it works well for users with disabilities.

Security

Clarity is appropriate for use with low, moderate, and most high-risk data, with restricted access for use of ePHI in Clarity via specified Health agents and for PHI-approved Custom Agent and API use cases. Use of the web search feature with the Radiate agent is authorized for low-risk data only. Users with external obligations like data use agreements should also make sure their use of Clarity is appropriate. For further details, see Clarity Platform Security and Health Sciences AI Toolkit for ePHI information.

Resources

The following resources help you get started with and learn more about the Clarity platform.

Accessing Clarity

Accessing Clarity is quick and free for the Yale community: 

Open Clarity: Visit the Clarity Platform on any browser.  
Log in with your Yale credentials: Available at no cost to all current Yale students, staff, and faculty with a Yale email address. 
Start a conversation: Type your prompt into the chat box and begin working with an AI agent right away.

How Do I Get Support?

If you are experiencing an issue with your use of the Clarity platform that is not addressed by the content on this website, please reach out in the following ways.

Review the known issues to determine if your problem has already been reported.
To ensure the fastest response, please use the channel that matches your request:
For any other technical support related to the Clarity platform please reach out to the ITS helpdesk.
For support related to AI in teaching and learning, please see the AI Guidance for Teachers or reach out to askpoorvucenter@yale.edu.

Roadmap

For more information about our future enhancements and platform capabilities, please see Clarity platform’s Roadmap.

Comparing Clarity and Copilot Chat

Attributes	Copilot Chat (formerly Copilot with Data Protection)	Clarity Platform
Large Language Model	OpenAI’s GPT-5 and DALL·E 3	OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Luna, GPT 5.6 Terra, GPT 5.6 Sol, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5, and Google’s Gemini Pro 2.5 and Flash 3.7 (see a comparison of Clarity agents using the different models)
Able to search the web and provide links and citations in its response generation	✓	✓ Note: Only the Featured Agent Radiate has been enabled with web search for low- risk data. See our page on web search for more details.
File upload	✓	✓
File upload limits	Unlimited text file uploads with a maximum size of 1MB per file. Limited to 1 image file per prompt.	No limit on number of file uploads and can upload up to 10 files simultaneously. There is a maximum file size of 512MB per file. In addition, the size of the extracted text (not the size of the original file) cannot exceed 10,000,000 characters.
File upload from OneDrive	✓	✓
Image generation	✓	✓
Chat limits	No limits	No limits
Chat history	Chats are saved for 18 months by default and can be accessed using the chat search feature.	Chats are saved and can be accessed in the chat history panel.
Costs	Free	Free
Availability	Staff, faculty, and students (18 years of age or above)	Staff, faculty, and students
Data risk classification	High risk data in Work tab Moderate risk data in Web tab	High risk data, with some restrictions such as ePHI. Refer to Clarity Platform Security and Health Sciences AI Toolkit for more information Low, when using web search feature with the Radiate agent.
Vendor	High risk data in Work tab Moderate risk data in Web tab	The Clarity Platform is built on FoundationaLLM