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Everything on this page lives on the Customize tab of the dashboard. Changes apply server-side without touching your embed code.

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Appearance

Accent Color and Button card with color picker, button text, and bubble position controls
  • Site name - your site’s name (up to 100 characters). The AI uses it to introduce itself as an assistant for your site.
  • Accent color - the color of accents within the opened widget. Optionally apply it to the launcher button too; otherwise the launcher uses the default dark style.
  • Button text - the label on the launcher pill. Defaults to “Ask AI”, up to 8 characters.
  • Bubble position - which bottom corner the launcher sits in. The “above sticky ads” variants lift it clear of anchor/adhesion ad units.
  • Welcome message - shown in the middle of the widget when it first opens, up to 200 characters.
  • Branding - Free and Pro plans show “Powered by ChatAds”. The Business plan can hide it. See Plans & Billing.

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Starter Questions

Up to 3 short prompts (50 characters each) shown as pill buttons in the empty chat panel. When a visitor clicks one, it sends immediately. Use them to surface the questions your readers actually ask - the Conversations tab is a good source.
Starter Questions card with three example questions
Open widget showing the welcome message and three starter question pills

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Page Context

Page context makes ChatAds article-aware. When enabled (the default), the widget extracts content from the current page and sends roughly the first 1,000 words with each message, so the assistant can answer questions about that specific article. Extracted content includes:
  • Headings, paragraphs, list items, and table cells
  • Affiliate links already present on the page (Amazon and supported affiliate network links)
Navigation, footer, script, and widget UI content are excluded.
If you turn page context off, ChatAds behaves like a standard site chatbot and relies less on the current page.

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Custom Prompt

You can add up to 500 characters of custom instructions, sent to the AI with every message. ChatAds already provides a robust prompt covering page content, metadata, prompt-injection blocking, and chatbot behavior; use this field for anything specific to your site - a brand voice note, a topic to avoid, a fact the AI should know.

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What the AI declines by default

Out of the box, the assistant is scoped to your site’s topic. It answers anything related to your site’s overall theme - including practical questions about choosing, buying, using, or maintaining things you cover - but politely declines requests that have nothing to do with it. It also declines these categories when they’re unrelated to your site: games, roleplay, coding help, homework, math problems, trivia, politics, creative writing, translation, jokes, songs, and general life advice. When one of those does connect to your site’s topic (a cooking-time calculation on a recipe site, say), it answers normally.

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Widening the scope

If your site is intentionally broad - a general Q&A site or a multi-topic publication - the default scoping can feel too strict. Use the custom prompt to widen it, for example: “This site covers general knowledge across many topics. Treat any sincere question as on-topic and answer it directly.” Your custom instructions are sent after the defaults, so they take precedence for topic scope.
The custom prompt adjusts the AI’s behavior only. It can’t disable ChatAds’ separate message screening, which blocks spam, prompt injection, and a small set of clearly off-topic requests before they reach the AI.