Ask the Sign

Ask the Sign answers questions about the place you're standing in: a store, a restaurant, a hotel or a venue.

How it works: at a participating place, tap the Ask the Sign sign with your phone. A page opens with a button for your assistant, which starts a chat with a short one-time connect code so your assistant knows where you are. Connecting uses an anonymous account: Ask the Sign never asks for your name, email or phone.

Once connected you can ask, in your own words and language:

• Where is it? "Where can I find something to fix a dripping kitchen faucet?" gives matching items, price, whether they're in stock, and the aisle or area.
• Do you have it in my size or colour? Variants and their stock.
• Where is the restroom, the checkout or the front desk, and what's on today?
• Opening hours, the return policy and the place's other answers, in its own words.
• Need a person? With your OK, Ask the Sign sends your message to the staff there.
• Something wrong? Report a listing that's out of date so the place can fix it.

Limits: Ask the Sign only answers about the place you connected to, and only for a while after you tap (the place sets how long). Elsewhere, or after the connection ends, it asks you to tap a sign again. Information comes from the place and may be out of date. Ask the Sign doesn't sell anything, take payments or show ads.

Privacy: Ask the Sign answers on its own servers and never sends your questions to an outside AI service. Details: https://askthesign.com/privacy