Configure and use Understanding mode
Follow this step-by-step guide to enable and optimize the complex tasks capability for your CustomGPT.ai agent.
What is Understanding mode?
Understanding enhances your AI agent’s ability to understand and respond to multi-layered queries by breaking them down into smaller components. This improves the depth, relevance, and accuracy of the responses—especially in content-rich environments.
Note:This feature is available exclusively for users on Premium and Enterprise plans.
How Understanding mode works:
- The agent breaks down user queries into five sub-queries, isolating key components to better understand the user's intent.
- A vector database is queried for each sub-query individually to retrieve the most relevant data.
- The retrieved contexts are merged into one, providing comprehensive insights.
- This process adds a slight latency of up to 1-2 seconds due to the enhanced processing.
When to use Understanding mode:
- Best suited for complex, multi-dimensional queries where advanced insights are required.
- Ideal for projects where the system needs to anticipate user needs and provide in-depth responses.
- Avoid enabling for simple queries, as it might add unnecessary latency without significant benefits.
Key benefits of Understanding mode:
- Enhanced Understanding: The agent can handle multi-dimensional queries by breaking them into smaller, manageable parts.
- Improved Response Quality: Merging results from sub-queries ensures the response is thorough and contextually relevant.
- Forward-Thinking AI: Anticipates user needs, delivering insights beyond the immediate query.
How to enable Understanding mode:
- Click Personalize.
- Click AI Intelligence tab.
- Click Understanding to enable this feature for your agent.
- Under select your AI model, choose the model for your agent:
- GPT-4.1
- GPT-4o
- GPT-5.1 Optimal
- GPT-5.1 Smart
- GPT-5.2 Optimal
- GPT-5.2 Smart
- Claude 4.5 Opus
- Claude 4.6 Opus
- Claude 4.5 Sonnet
- Gemini 3 Pro
- Click Save Settings to apply the changes.

Updated 6 days ago
