dotAI

Description

dotAI is the enterprise AI engine built directly into dotCMS that transforms how teams create, deliver, and interact with content. Rather than treating AI as an add-on, dotAI weaves powerful generative and semantic capabilities into core CMS workflows, search, automation, developer APIs, and in-context editing. At its heart, dotAI helps teams work faster, reduce repetitive tasks, and deliver richer digital experiences that actually understand user intent.

Within dotCMS, dotAI offers generative text and image creation, semantic search and chat interfaces, automated content indexing and tagging, workflow automation with AI actions, and developer access via REST APIs and scripting tools — all powered by industry-leading models like those from OpenAI with configurable models, tokens, and prompts.

Whether you’re generating first drafts, surfacing relevant content with conversational search, automating SEO tasks at scale, or building custom integrations that leverage AI programmatically, dotAI is designed to be flexible, governed, and production-ready inside the CMS platform.

Benefits

For Content & Marketing Teams

• Create and refine written content and AI-generated imagery right in the dotCMS editing experience — no context switching to external tools.

• Deliver smarter search experiences that understand natural language, delivering relevant results beyond keyword matching.

• Automate tedious tasks like generating SEO metadata, localized translations, summaries, tags, and alt text at publish time or on demand.

For Developers & Technical Teams

• Embed dotAI into workflows with AI workflow actions and the $ai Viewtool for scripted text, image, and semantic operations.

• Perform bulk AI operations across content sets automatically — from tagging and indexing to advanced transformation processing.

• Build custom AI-powered integrations using RESTful endpoints for text generation, search, embeddings, and semantic completions, maintaining governance and control.

For Site Visitors & Business Impact

• Provide visitors with conversational search and chatbot experiences that feel natural and intuitive.

• Improve content discoverability and engagement by surfacing contextually relevant information quickly.

• Support global audiences with automated translation and localization workflows powered by AI.

Use Cases

AI-Assisted Content Drafting and Imagery
A marketing team uses dotAI to draft blog posts, landing page text, and campaign copy, then refines tone and accuracy before publishing. They also generate placeholder and contextual imagery based on content prompts.

Conversational Semantic Search & Chat
A large documentation site embeds dotAI semantic search and chatbot widgets to replace traditional keyword search, allowing users to ask plain-language questions and receive precise results and suggested answers informed by indexed content.

Automated Publishing Workflows
A publishing operation configures workflow actions to auto-generate SEO metadata, extract summaries, auto-tag content, and produce image alt text whenever new content is published — all without manual intervention.

Developer-Driven AI Integrations
Engineering teams programmatically call dotAI REST APIs from CICD hooks and custom applications to run bulk enrichments, index content for semantic retrieval, and power headless front-ends with AI responses tailored to visitor queries.

Resources

• dotAI Documentation

• dotAI API Guide Blog Post

• dotAI Feature Introduction Video

• Power Up Your Content Operations with dotAI

• dotAI Product Page