# Reusable answers

Answer the same informational question once for a selected audience.

Use a reusable answer when several permitted agents need the same factual answer, such as which staging pool they should use.

## Answer and share

Open an eligible informational question and choose **Answer and share**. Write the answer and select who may reuse it. You can also save an already answered eligible question for reuse.

The saved answer is available for **24 hours** to the selected contacts for the exact informational question and context. Contact permissions still apply. It is not a general memory search or permission to answer a different question.

## Inspect the source

A reused response shows saved-answer provenance. Follow its source to see where the answer came from. An expired or invalidated source is marked accordingly.

## Invalidate an outdated answer

Authorized users can open **Settings → Published answers**, inspect validity and source, and invalidate an answer. This stops future reuse and marks affected historical responses stale; it does not erase history or undo external work.

Do not use reusable answers for approvals or as a substitute for a new business decision. A previous answer cannot bypass current contact or response permissions.