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Pull information from website rather than link to it

  • November 12, 2025
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Is there a way to have the Fin AI agent reference information (including hyperlinks to PDFs) on a website but restrict it from linking customers to the site? We have a page with links to user manuals for devices listed on our website that was meant to just be for AI reference rather than for public consumption. We want Fin to be able to answer a question troubleshooting use of a specific device type with the user manual, but don’t want to take customers to a page with a huge table of devices on it.

Best answer by Tommy Mains

Interesting. I don’t think you’d be able to get Fin to offer up a link to a PDF that’s linked on a webpage, BUT you could probably upload the PDF as a webpage itself and then use guidance to send users a direct link to the PDF’s webpage.

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Nathan Sudds
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  • November 12, 2025

@karan90x That should be doable with some guidance, potentially just take this paragraph you sent here and ask Claude to help you write a Guidance prompt to give it that instruction.  

 

There’s a content source Guidance type that would allow you to share some guidance specifically about how to use that source and you can experiment with it.  You just need to @mention the content source then add some instructions. 

 

Here’s a very rough idea but I get the sense this might work for what you need based on my experience:

 

 


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  • November 13, 2025

Thanks for the detailed answer Nathan! Fin is doing a good job of providing information from within the page, but unfortunately the guidance doesn’t work. I tried a few different iterations of the instructions and Fin does sometimes provide information from the page in the response, but it still almost always links to the webpage.


Nathan Sudds
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  • November 13, 2025

@karan90x Can you send me a DM or book a time on my calendar, you have me very curious to see this one in action so we can try to solve it together!


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  • November 14, 2025

Interesting. I don’t think you’d be able to get Fin to offer up a link to a PDF that’s linked on a webpage, BUT you could probably upload the PDF as a webpage itself and then use guidance to send users a direct link to the PDF’s webpage.