diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
index d2bafea9..01d8c0f4 100644
--- a/.vscode/settings.json
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
   "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
     "source.organizeImports": true
   },
+  "editor.rulers": [
+    100,
+    120
+  ],
   "python.analysis.extraPaths": [
     "./generated"
   ],
diff --git a/src/groundlight/client.py b/src/groundlight/client.py
index 2b558fd7..eefedf30 100644
--- a/src/groundlight/client.py
+++ b/src/groundlight/client.py
@@ -222,8 +222,8 @@ def submit_image_query(  # noqa: PLR0913 # pylint: disable=too-many-arguments
             params["human_review"] = human_review
 
         if want_async is True:
-            # If want_async is True, we don't want to wait for a result. As a result using both wait and want_async makes
-            # no sense.
+            # If want_async is True, we don't want to wait for a result. As a result using both wait and want_async 
+            # makes no sense.
             if wait is not None:
                 raise ValueError(
                     "wait must be None if want_async is True as the two are incompatible. Please set wait"
@@ -247,6 +247,22 @@ def submit_image_query(  # noqa: PLR0913 # pylint: disable=too-many-arguments
             image_query = self.wait_for_confident_result(image_query, confidence_threshold=threshold, timeout_sec=wait)
 
         return self._fixup_image_query(image_query, want_async=want_async)
+    
+    def ask_async(self, 
+                  detector: Union[Detector, str], 
+                  image: Union[str, bytes, Image.Image, BytesIO, BufferedReader, np.ndarray],
+                  human_review: Optional[str] = None, 
+                  inspection_id: Optional[str] = None) -> ImageQuery:
+        """
+        Convenience method for submitting an image query asynchronously. This is equivalent to calling 
+        submit_image_query with want_async=True. Use get_image_query to retrieve the result of the image query.
+        """
+        return self.submit_image_query(detector,
+                                       image, 
+                                       human_review=human_review, 
+                                       want_async=True, 
+                                       inspection_id=inspection_id)
+        
 
     def wait_for_confident_result(
         self,