Ask Adam

HoBo Runtime · WordPress / AI

Ask Adam The original know-your-website AI for WordPress.

Give your visitors an AI assistant that knows your website. Then give yourself an AI site manager that can help run it.

  • Lite · Free
  • Pro · Flagship
Ask Adam header artwork featuring the Adam avatar

Know your website

Adam can learn the website he works on

Build a private knowledge base from your site’s content and selected resources. When visitors ask questions, Adam retrieves the relevant material and answers in the context of your business, documentation, services and content, not just general model knowledge.

  1. Choose the content

    You decide which pages, posts and resources become part of Adam’s knowledge base.

  2. Build the knowledge base

    Content is broken into searchable chunks with semantic embeddings, so Adam finds meaning instead of just matching keywords.

  3. Answer in context

    When a visitor asks, relevant material is retrieved so answers reflect your actual site.

Help your visitors

An assistant on every page

Add Adam as a floating chat widget or place him anywhere with a shortcode. Visitors get answers about your site at the moment they need them.

  • Floating widget or shortcode placement
  • Image and vision input
  • Knowledge base retrieval: basic in Lite, advanced in Pro
  • Session memory and richer configuration in Pro

AI Site Manager · Pro

The chatbot talks to your visitors. AI Site Manager works with you.

A separate management workspace for administrators. Tell Adam what you want in plain English and, depending on the permissions you grant, he can take permitted WordPress actions under your publishing rules.

Ask Adam's glowing avatar connecting document, conversation and analysis panels

Content

Read, create and edit pages and posts, and work with categories, tags, authors and featured images.

Imagery

Generate images and place them into content, inspect real Media Library images with vision, and create new imagery from references.

Page styling and scripts

Create page-specific CSS. Page JavaScript can be proposed only when you explicitly enable it.

Larger builds

Build substantial multi-section pages through a coordinated job system, with previews before anything touches a live page.

Focused context

Works on the pages and posts you select, with bounded conversation context for follow-up instructions.

MCP interface

An authenticated MCP interface for compatible external development and AI clients.

Publishing modes

  • Draft OnlyAdam prepares drafts. Nothing goes live.
  • Approval RequiredLive changes wait for your explicit approval.
  • Automatic PublishingOnly when you deliberately enable it.

Permissions are enforced by the server, not the AI model. Site Manager starts conservatively with most write permissions off.

Design Studio · Pro

Design with Claude

Claude acts as design architect and front-end planner while OpenAI handles generated imagery. It inspects the target page and visual references, sets the design direction, and assembles content, CSS and imagery into one reviewable proposal.

  1. Talk it through

    Discuss the design with Claude before anything is built.

  2. Draft the instruction

    Claude writes the actual build instruction, and you revise the plan until it’s right.

  3. Plan and generate

    Content, CSS and imagery are planned together, and generated artwork is reviewed before use.

  4. Review the proposal

    The agreed design arrives as one proposal for you to review.

Image generation uses OpenAI image models, even when Claude is the design architect.

Editions

Lite vs Pro

Start free with Lite. Move to Pro when you want Adam working on the site, not just talking about it.

FeatureLiteFreeProFlagship
AI website chatIncludedIncluded
Floating widget and shortcodeIncludedIncluded
Vision / image inputIncludedIncluded
Knowledge baseBasicAdvanced
OpenAIIncludedIncluded
Anthropic / ClaudeNot includedIncluded
xAI / GrokNot includedIncluded
AI Site ManagerNot includedIncluded
Create and edit WordPress contentNot includedIncluded
Generate site imageryNot includedIncluded
Reference-image workflowsNot includedIncluded
Page-specific CSSNot includedIncluded
Reviewable JavaScriptNot includedIncluded
Design with Claude and Design StudioNot includedIncluded
Approval workflowsNot includedIncluded
Automatic publishing optionNot includedIncluded
MCP interfaceNot includedIncluded

Lite’s knowledge base indexes one sitemap and one priority URL.

The Ask Adam family

More tools around Adam

Beyond the assistant itself, the Ask Adam family covers community chat and documentation.

Ask Adam at the center of a connected WordPress toolkit for AI assistance, documents, chat and analysis
  • AdamBox

    The community side of the Ask Adam family: a shared conversation space for your site instead of one visitor talking to one assistant.

    Learn about AdamBox
  • AdamBox Pro

    Expands AdamBox into an AI-moderated community, with Adam helping manage conversations and participation.

    Learn about AdamBox Pro
  • Ask Adam Doc It

    Turns manuals, guides and knowledge resources into an AI-assisted, searchable experience, so users find answers without digging through pages of material.

    Learn about Doc It

Privacy and controls

Powerful, on your terms

Server-enforced permissions

What Adam can do is decided by administrator settings enforced on the server, not by the AI model.

Conservative by default

Site Manager starts with most write permissions off. Live changes can require your approval, and automatic publishing is something you switch on deliberately.

JavaScript is guarded

Page JavaScript is off by default, requires acknowledgement to enable, and is proposed for review rather than quietly added to a live site.

Where requests go

AI requests go to the provider you select. Lite sends visitor prompts, optional indexed content and vision inputs to OpenAI as needed. Lite itself doesn’t collect visitor analytics or store chat logs, and uploaded vision images aren’t written to your WordPress database or server by the plugin.

Requirements

Ask Adam Lite
WordPress 5.8+, PHP 7.4+, tested up to WordPress 7.0, and your own OpenAI API key.
Ask Adam Pro
Credentials for the providers behind the features you enable. Design with Claude needs an Anthropic credential; image generation needs OpenAI access.

Get started

Put Adam to work on your site.

Start free with Lite, or bring in the full Site Manager with Pro.