We’re thrilled to announce the release of AI Workflow Automation Pro 1.5.0, our most significant update yet! This major release transforms your WordPress chatbots into powerful, autonomous AI agents capable of understanding user intent and taking meaningful actions – all without requiring any coding knowledge.
š Introducing Chat Actions: From Co-pilot to Autopilot
The centerpiece of this release is our new Chat Actions system. Now your chatbots can intelligently detect what users are trying to accomplish and automatically trigger the appropriate workflows in response. This represents a fundamental shift from “co-pilot” to “autopilot” – allowing your website to handle complex processes completely autonomously.
Imagine these possibilities:
- E-commerce: Your chatbot recognizes when customers ask about product availability, pricing, or want to make a return – instantly providing information or initiating the right process
- Customer Support: Automatically create support tickets, schedule appointments, or process refund requests right from the chat
- Lead Generation: Capture qualified leads by having your chatbot collect contact information and preferences, then seamlessly transfer them to your CRM
- Content Discovery: Help users find relevant blog posts, documentation, or resources based on their specific needs
Each chat action can connect to its own complete workflow, giving you unlimited flexibility to build sophisticated, multi-step processes triggered directly from natural conversation.
You can read more about chat actions in the Chat Node documentation page.
āØ Quick Replies: Guide Your Users to Action
We’ve also added Quick Reply buttons to your chatbots! These customizable buttons appear after AI responses, making it easy for users to select common options without typing. Combined with Chat Actions, quick replies create powerful guided experiences:
- User asks a question about your services
- AI responds with information and displays quick reply buttons for “Schedule Demo”, “Pricing”, etc.
- User clicks a button, triggering the appropriate Chat Action workflow
This creates a perfect balance between natural conversation and structured interactions – ensuring users can always find what they need efficiently.
š§ Cutting-Edge AI Models
We’ve integrated the latest and most powerful AI models available:
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Anthropic’s newest model offers exceptional reasoning capabilities and nuanced understanding of complex requests
- Sonar Deep Research API: Build comprehensive research capabilities with a single node, allowing your workflows to gather and synthesize information from across the web
Read more about all the models that our plugin supports in the AI Model Node documentation page.
š§ Enhanced Performance & Reliability
This release includes numerous performance improvements and bug fixes:
- Increased success rates for the workflow generator, even with complex instructions. Read more about our powerful and unique AI-powered workflow generator here.
- Updated all template workflows to work seamlessly with the newest features
- Improved overall plugin stability and response times
š Our Vision: Full Automation for Your Website
With this release, we’re doubling down on our vision of true website automation. While other solutions and plugins focus on AI assistants that still require human intervention to generate content or do simple tasks, we’re building tools that can completely automate your most valuable business processes.
The combination of intelligent Chat Actions, guided Quick Replies, and state-of-the-art AI models means your website can handle increasingly complex tasks without human oversight – saving you time, reducing errors, and delivering exceptional experiences to your users 24/7.
š Getting Started
To explore these exciting new features, simply update to version 1.5.0 from your WordPress dashboard. Then:
- Open any existing Chat node or create a new one
- Navigate to the “Actions” tab to define your first Chat Action
- Connect your action to a workflow that should trigger when that intent is detected
- Add quick reply buttons in the “Design” tab to guide users toward your most valuable actions
We can’t wait to see what you build with these powerful new capabilities! As always, we’re here to help if you have any questions or need assistance implementing these features.
Happy automating!