=== Expertise AI Chatbot ===
Contributors: chatsimple  
Tags: ai, agent, chat, lead capture, chatbot  
Requires at least: 6.0  
Tested up to: 6.7  
Requires PHP: 7.4  
Stable tag: 1.0.8  
License: GPLv2 or later  
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html  

Capture leads, answer questions, and book meetings seamlessly with the power of AI.  
Configure your AI chatbot widget in minutes with Expertise AI.

== Description ==

**First Impressions Count**  
Help your visitors with the power of [Expertise AI](https://www.expertise.ai/?utm_source=Wordpress&utm_medium=marketplace&utm_campaign=Wordpress) to bring personalized engagement and guide them smoothly toward your desired outcomes.  

**24/7 Lead-Capturing With a Personal Touch**  
Even when you're off, Expertise AI keeps the conversation going, collecting visitor contact information in a friendly and professional manner for a unique, high-quality experience every time.  

**Engage Across Platforms — Language No Barrier**  
With multilingual support and cross-platform functionality, Expertise AI ensures your business is always accessible, wherever customers are and in any language they speak.  

**No Coding, No Hassle — Just Results**  
Creating chatbots with Expertise AI is fast, easy, and requires zero code. Start by creating your account today and launch an AI agent in under a minute.  

### 🔍 Feature Highlights
* **Analytics Dashboard** — Track visitors, conversations, engagement %, link-clicks, and conversions inside the platform.  
* **Training Materials** — Drag-and-drop PDFs, link web pages, or paste text; Expertise AI indexes it all for instant, source-cited answers.  
* **Voice AI + Live Transcript** — Let visitors talk instead of type; calls are transcribed in real time and stored with the chat.  
* **Knowledge-Gap Alerts** — Unanswered questions are flagged and suggested as new FAQ entries, closing content holes fast.  
* **Visitor Intelligence & Lead Scoring** — Enriches every profile with firmographic data and auto-scores intent so your sales team can prioritise.  
* **Branching Playbooks** — Design multi-step stories with conditional logic; use *AI Rewrite* to polish copy automatically.  
* **Business Goal Buttons** — Pre-built calls-to-action like *Schedule a Meeting*, *Watch a Demo*, or *Claim Special Offer*, routed to Calendly or your CRM.  
* **AI Engagement Triggers** — Trigger pop-ups by time-on-page, scroll depth, or user behaviour.  

### 🤔 Why use Expertise AI on your WordPress site?
* **Shorter paths to revenue** — Visitors reach demos or checkout faster because the bot surfaces exactly what they need.  
* **Fewer abandoned pages** — Smart triggers re-engage visitors with context-aware nudges over generic pop-ups.  
* **Real-time voice option** — Turn browsing traffic into phone-style calls without extra telco providers.  
* **Continuous improvement loop** — Knowledge-gap alerts tell you which docs or FAQs to provide next.  
* **Data your CRM actually needs** — Every chat is enriched, scored, and synced automatically.  
* **Future-proof** — Rapid feature-shipping cadence keeps your widget ahead of the curve.  

### 📚 Use-Case Playbook
**SaaS & B2B** – Capture firmographic details, route enterprise visitors to Calendly, and push scored leads to HubSpot or Salesforce.  
**E-commerce** – Answer sizing/shipping questions, recommend SKUs, trigger WhatsApp reminders for abandoned carts, and log purchases in GTM.  
**Agencies & Consultants** – Spin up branded widgets per client with analytics and Slack alerts.  
**Education & Non-profit** – Provide 24/7 admissions or donor assistance in any language and keep transcripts for compliance.  

### 🔄 Integrations & Data Flow
Front end: Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, and web chat.  
Back end: Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive, Zapier, Webhooks.  
Each conversation (with lead-score and visitor intelligence) syncs to your CRM, posts alerts to Slack, and fires attribution events to Google Tag Manager.  

### 💵 Pricing
Most core features are available on the **free plan** — see our [pricing page](https://www.expertise.ai/pricing?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin&utm_campaign=wp-plugin-listing) for details.  

#### 🟢 Start Free
On the free tier you can:  
* Add a customizable AI chat agent  
* Handle ~50 AI responses/month (≈10 full conversations)  
* Upload up to 10 training materials  
* Sync new leads instantly via built-in HubSpot integration  

Upgrade anytime for higher quotas, extra agents, and advanced integrations.

== Installation ==

1. Upload the plugin ZIP to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.  
2. Activate the plugin via **Plugins → Installed Plugins** in WordPress.  
3. Click **Expertise AI** in the WP admin sidebar.  
4. Log in-or-sign-up at the [Expertise AI web app](https://app.expertise.ai/).  
5. Copy the **Platform ID** from *Add AI Nav → WordPress* in your Expertise AI dashboard.  
6. Paste the ID into the plugin settings and click **Save Settings**.  
7. Done! Your AI chatbot widget is now live.

== Screenshots ==

1. Adding AI chatbot to your website  

== External Services ==

The plugin downloads a widget JavaScript file from the Expertise AI CDN and calls Expertise AI's API to obtain configuration for the embedded AI widget.  
Service provider: **Expertise AI** — see our [Terms of Service](https://www.expertise.ai/terms-of-service) and [Privacy Policy](https://www.expertise.ai/privacy-policy).  

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.8 =  
* Added screenshot

= 1.0.7 =  
* Rebranded from Chatsimple AI to Expertise AI  
* Updated all references and links to use expertise.ai domain  

= 1.0.6 =  
* Updated plugin name to Expertise AI Chatbot  

= 1.0.5 =  
* Removed AI Nav text  

= 1.0.4 =  
* Removed the need for user-id and chatbot-id  

= 1.0.3 =  
* Removed hyperlink  

= 1.0.0 =  
* Initial release  

== Upgrade Notice ==

1.0.4 — Simplified configuration; only one ID required.
