Author Assist is an AI-powered assistant with the skills to make your content creator’s life easier.Use Author Assist in Kontent.ai to summarize text, rewrite it for you, or generate completely new content based on your instructions. All that without leaving Kontent.ai for 3rd-party services.
Generate content based on instructions
Kontent.ai’s Author Assist is a powerful AI tool that enables you to generate content based on your instructions.Let’s say you’re working on an article about modern lifestyle and want to write three paragraphs up to 70 words each in simple English about why cycling and public transport are much more responsible ways to go around in a city than using a car.The part of the sentence in italics above is actually an instruction you can use with Author Assist:
In Content & assets, open a content item for editing.
Use the instructions in italics from above for a quick test drive.
Press Enter to submit the instructions.
While the Author Assist works, you can click the status that appears in place of your instructions to:
Edit instructions.
Discard the instructions and cancel the job.
Tips for effective work with Author Assist
Here are a few facts about Author Assist. Knowing them can help you get your job done more efficiently.
Get inspired by examples
All example AI prompts below have been tested on our AI and yielded meaningful results.
You can also create an outline of what you wish Author Assist to elaborate on and paste it into the instructions.
Adjust existing content using AI
When you want to adjust the content you already have, Author Assist can help, too. The AI is always ready to rewrite your content in a different tone or style, shorten it, or restructure it.
Fast changes with predefined options
The AI skills to transform your existing content are accessible via a context menu directly in the rich text editor:
In Content & assets, open a content item for editing.
Select a portion of text in a rich text editor.
Click the Ask AI option and select what to do with the selection.
Below are the predefined options to get you started:
Make shorter: get your point across faster.
Change tone: tailor your content for a specific audience.
Not available for the Create title and Summarize options.
Try again to see if you get different results.
Discard the result.
Give AI your own instructions
Select Ask AI > Improve content to provide custom instructions for the AI. The Improve content option lets you make the AI do pretty much anything with your text, even machine translation.Example instructions:
Convert to bullet points
Generate four paragraphs based on the outline
Make the text appealing to teens
Activate Author Assist in Kontent.ai
Author Assist is currently available for our clients via the early access program.If you want to actively try the new features and give us feedback on the functionality, go to the early access program and activate the AI-powered assistant in rich text for your environment.
If you’re in rich text, Author Assist can use all rich text formatting that’s available to you, such as headings, bold or italic, lists, tables, and so on. You can specify the preferred formatting in your instructions.
Author Assist considers content in the current element and writes new content to blend nicely with what you already have.Aside from the current element, Author Assist also uses the wisdom of the whole Internet to generate content for you. While this means its knowledge is virtually limitless, it’s also a reason for you to always review and fact-check what AI wrote.
If the result of your prompt isn’t what you wanted, press Ctrl+Z (⌘+Z on Mac) to remove the generated text, get back to your instructions, refine them, and try again. The refinement usually means getting more specific.You can also retry with the same prompt multiple times. The AI is like humans in this regard – usually, no two writing attempts get you identical results.
Write three paragraphs up to 70 words each about the pros and cons of cycling. Make it easy to understand for a 13-year-old American.
Write a LinkedIn post of up to 120 words about responsible e-shops. Use English that's easy to understand and resonates well with business managers.
Create a table that compares the pros and cons of drinking coffee in the morning. Write an article comparing cycling in the city vs. in nature. Compose two sections, and start each section with an H2 title.
Author Assist is currently in early access. You can activate it using the early access program.
Combine the AI skills to achieve perfectionOnce Author Assist generates content for you, you can ask AIto adjust it according to your needs – shorten the text, change its tone, summarize it, and so on.
You can also provide your instructions in languages other than English.