inqiro

<p><strong>inqiro</strong> is an AI-powered chatbot that reads your WordPress website and answers visitor questions based on your actual content. No manual training, no copy-pasting FAQs – just install, activate, and let it learn your site automatically.</p>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong>Crawl</strong> – inqiro scans your pages, posts, and WooCommerce products</li>
<li><strong>Understand</strong> – Content is converted into AI-readable embeddings</li>
<li><strong>Answer</strong> – Visitors ask questions and get accurate answers from your content</li>
</ol>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic content crawling</strong> – Pages, posts, and WooCommerce products</li>
<li><strong>AI-powered answers</strong> – Based on your actual website content, not hallucinations</li>
<li><strong>Chat widget</strong> – Clean, modern design that matches your brand colors</li>
<li><strong>Conversation history</strong> – Review all chat conversations in your dashboard</li>
<li><strong>Multilingual</strong> – Supports German, English, and auto-detection</li>
<li><strong>Tone settings</strong> – Formal, casual, or friendly conversation style</li>
<li><strong>Custom instructions</strong> – Tell the AI how to behave on your site</li>
<li><strong>GDPR-ready</strong> – Consent dialogs, data retention controls, AI disclosure</li>
<li><strong>Mobile responsive</strong> – Works perfectly on all devices</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong> – No jQuery dependency, minimal CSS footprint</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited pages and monthly chats</li>
<li>Lead capture from conversations</li>
<li>Proactive chat messages – opens chat panel with typing animation</li>
<li><strong>Inactivity timer</strong> – open chat after configurable idle time on any page</li>
<li><strong>Exit intent trigger</strong> – catch leaving visitors with a custom message</li>
<li>Remove inqiro branding</li>
<li>Show content sources in answers</li>
<li>Suggested quick-reply buttons</li>
<li>Voice input via Web Speech API</li>
<li>Geographic analytics – see where your visitors chat from</li>
<li><strong>Visual analytics dashboard</strong> – Chart.js charts for chat volume, sentiment, feedback, and top pages</li>
<li>Weekly email report with chat statistics</li>
</ul>
<h4>Business Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Use your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key</li>
<li>Choose your preferred AI provider and model</li>
<li>Custom CSS for full widget styling control</li>
<li>WooCommerce Shopping Assistant with product cards</li>
<li><strong>Abandoned cart recovery</strong> – nudge visitors with items in their cart</li>
<li><strong>Appointment booking integration</strong> – CTA button linked to external booking tools</li>
<li>Conversation handoff to human agents with automatic trigger</li>
<li><strong>WhatsApp handoff notification</strong> – Click-to-Chat link in email, chat, and admin</li>
<li><strong>Contact forms in chat</strong> – form builder with keyword triggers and email notifications</li>
<li><strong>A/B testing</strong> – test greetings, tones, and proactive messages with significance tracking</li>
<li>Sentiment analysis and content gap detection</li>
<li>Conversion tracking</li>
<li>Business hours configuration</li>
</ul>
<h4>WooCommerce Integration</h4>
<p>When WooCommerce is active, inqiro automatically crawls your products (including prices, images, and descriptions) and can recommend products with interactive cards that include “Add to Cart” buttons.</p>
<h3>Third-Party Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to external services to function:</p>
<p><strong>inqiro License Server (inqiro.de)</strong><br />
The plugin communicates with the inqiro license server for license validation, usage tracking, and AI request proxying. Chat messages are transmitted to this server for processing.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: https://inqiro.de</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://inqiro.de/datenschutz/</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://inqiro.de/nutzungsbedingungen/</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>OpenAI (default AI provider)</strong><br />
Chat messages are forwarded to OpenAI’s API for generating responses based on your website content.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: https://openai.com</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of Use: https://openai.com/terms</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Anthropic (optional AI provider)</strong><br />
Business plans can optionally use Anthropic’s Claude as an alternative AI provider.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: https://anthropic.com</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of Use: https://www.anthropic.com/terms</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>ip-api.com (geo lookup for visitor statistics, opt-in)</strong><br />
When “Besucher-Geolocation” is explicitly enabled in Settings > Privacy, the plugin sends the visitor’s IP address to ip-api.com via HTTPS to determine country and city for geographic chat statistics. This feature is disabled by default and no data is sent unless the site administrator opts in. No other data is transmitted.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: https://ip-api.com</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal</li>
<li>Terms of Use: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal</li>
</ul>


The AI chatbot that truly knows your WordPress website. Crawls your content, answers visitor questions accurately - no training needed.

kognetiks

<p><strong>Quiet Proof for Your Website</strong></p>
<p>Most websites are having conversations you never see.</p>
<p>Visitors ask questions, express confusion, or look for answers without ever filling out a form or opening a ticket. Traditional analytics don’t show this. Chat logs are too noisy to monitor at scale.</p>
<p><strong>Kognetiks Chatbot turns those invisible interactions into quiet proof of value.</strong></p>
<p>Instead of guessing whether your chatbot is helping, you receive clear, human-readable summaries that show what visitors asked, where AI helped, and where attention may be needed.</p>
<p>No dashboards to babysit.<br />
No transcripts to dig through.<br />
Just insight, delivered.</p>
<h3>What Makes This Different</h3>
<p>Kognetiks is not a novelty chatbot.  It is build for understanding, oversight, and long-term use.</p>
<p>It is designed for <strong>visibility, oversight, and measurable outcomes</strong>, so you can understand how AI is actually being used on your site.</p>
<p>AI assists.<br />
Humans decide.</p>
<h3>Who This Is For</h3>
<p>This plugin is a strong fit if you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Want to know what visitors are really asking</li>
<li>Care about intent, not just answers</li>
<li>Need proof that AI is providing value</li>
<li>Prefer insight delivered automatically</li>
<li>Value transparency over black-box automation</li>
</ul>
<p>Common users include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Agencies managing client websites</li>
<li>Consultants and site owners</li>
<li>Product and content teams</li>
<li>Founders who want clarity, not noise</li>
</ul>
<h3>Who This Is Not For</h3>
<p>This plugin may not be a fit if you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Only want a novelty chatbot</li>
<li>Expect AI to operate without human oversight</li>
<li>Prefer opaque or fully autonomous systems</li>
<li>Don’t want visibility into AI behavior</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Outcomes</h3>
<p>With Kognetiks, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>See what visitors asked without reading every transcript</li>
<li>Understand engagement and intent patterns over time</li>
<li>Identify unanswered questions and content gaps</li>
<li>Demonstrate real, ongoing value from conversational AI</li>
</ul>
<h3>Conversation Digest</h3>
<p>Automatically summarizes real chatbot interactions, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Common questions and themes</li>
<li>Signals of confusion, friction, or opportunity</li>
<li>High-level engagement and sentiment indicators</li>
</ul>
<p>Reports are delivered automatically to your inbox.</p>
<p>No dashboards required.</p>
<h3>Proof-of-Value Reporting</h3>
<p>Turns invisible chatbot activity into visible outcomes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Usage and engagement trends</li>
<li>Evidence of support and efficiency gains</li>
<li>Insight you can act on or share</li>
</ul>
<p>Ideal for agencies, consultants, and teams who need to justify ongoing value.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Conversation Digest summaries</li>
<li>Proof-of-value reporting</li>
<li>Reports are designed to be shared as-is, without explanation</li>
<li>Supports multiple AI engines (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, NVIDIA, Anthropic, Mistral, DeepSeek, Google, JAN.AI)</li>
<li>Knowledge Navigator for site-aware responses</li>
<li>Custom assistants for specific purposes</li>
<li>Conversation logging with export options</li>
<li>Sentiment and engagement signals</li>
<li>Optional voice and speech support</li>
<li>Embedded or floating chat via shortcode</li>
</ul>
<h3>Philosophy</h3>
<p><strong>Designed for visibility, not guesswork.</strong></p>
<p>The <strong>Kognetiks Chatbot</strong> helps you understand when AI is helping, when it needs adjustment, and where small changes can quietly make a big difference.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>The <strong>Kognetiks Chatbot</strong> plugin relies on external AI services to provide chatbot functionality. It sends user queries and related data to a third-party AI provider for processing and response generation. By using this plugin, you agree to abide by each service’s terms of service and privacy policy:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>OpenAI</strong>: <a href="https://platform.openai.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li><strong>Azure OpenAI</strong>: <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-services/openai/data-privacy?tabs=azure-portal" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA</strong>: <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/nv-accounts/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic</strong>: <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/legal-center/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li><strong>DeepSeek</strong>: <a href="https://chat.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20User%20Agreement.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="https://chat.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20Privacy%20Policy.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li><strong>Mistral</strong>: <a href="https://mistral.ai/terms#terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://mistral.ai/terms#privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li><strong>Google</strong>: <a href="https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li><strong>JAN.AI</strong>: <a href="https://jan.ai/about" rel="nofollow ugc">About</a> | <a href="https://jan.ai/docs/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>This plugin requires an API key from OpenAI, NVIDIA, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Mistral, Google, or JAN.AI to function. Without an API key, the chatbot cannot process user queries.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Obtain API keys here:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenAI API Keys</a></li>
<li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?icid=ai-services" rel="nofollow ugc">Azure API Keys</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/nim" rel="nofollow ugc">NVIDIA API Keys</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Anthropic API Keys</a></li>
<li><a href="https://platform.deepseek.com/sign_in" rel="nofollow ugc">DeepSeek API Keys</a></li>
<li><a href="https://console.mistral.ai/api-keys" rel="nofollow ugc">Mistral API Keys</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aistudio.google.com/api-keys" rel="nofollow ugc">Google API Keys</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>By entering your API key from the AI provider of your choice and activating the chatbot, you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Consent to sending user queries and related data to the selected AI provider for processing and response generation.</li>
<li>Agree to abide by the provider’s terms of service, pricing, and privacy policy.</li>
<li>Acknowledge that your data, including text submitted by users, may be transferred to and processed by the AI platform in accordance with its privacy policy.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: You are responsible for any fees associated with the use of the selected AI platform. Be sure to review each provider’s pricing and usage policies before proceeding.</p>
<h3>Disclaimer</h3>
<p>WordPress, OpenAI, ChatGPT, NVIDIA, NIM, Anthropic, Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral, Azure and related trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Kognetiks is an independent entity and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by WordPress Foundation, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Anthropic, DeepSeek, or Mistral.</p>


Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress


1 star until they implement the ability to use a custom model. This should already be a feature.


Doesn't allow Custom Models

Quiet proof that your website is working. Turn real visitor conversations into clear insight, automatically. No dashboards. No guesswork.

inqiro vs Kognetiks Chatbot for WordPress