Conversational AI Built to Earn
Your Content. Your Audience. Your AI.
Transform your content into a brand-safe dialogue that keeps users on your site, serves targeted ads, powers sponsorships, captures first-party data, and drives subscriptions. Live in days, not months.
Managed deployment. Works with any CMS. Zero risk.
Ask My Brand is a conversational AI platform built for media companies and content-driven enterprises. It answers user questions exclusively from your published IP, cites your work as sources, and captures first-party intent data to drive new revenue.
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A user asks a question or searches in plain language directly on your site.
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Deliver only your approved content with brand-safe responses and direct citations. The AI never writes new articles, summarizing your IP via precise editorial guardrails and prompt blocks configured on your dashboard.
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Users stay engaged during sessions that run 3x longer, while you monetize the interaction in six distinct ways.
You multiply baseline engagement, convert anonymous searches into high-value lead generation, capture first-party data in real time, and align direct sales with user demand to drive new enterprise revenue.
The conversation becomes inventory.
Experience Ask My Brand running across WholeFoods Magazine's 20-year archive. Ask it anything about food, nutrition, or supplements. Watch it deliver answers, advertising, and cite sources so you can understand the possibilities.
Search 20 years of verified WholeFoods Magazine archives.
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Ask My Brand is powered by ePublishing, the enterprise infrastructure behind the world’s most trusted media authorities for 25 years.
This is conversational AI built by a team that actually understands advertising, paywalls, and editorial integrity. It is not a generic chatbot dropped onto your site by a vendor who has never shipped an issue.
25
Years innovating
publishing technology.
~1,000
Media brands served across
the ePublishing platform.
Zero
External LLMs training
on your proprietary content.
“...the demand was so immediate we instituted a $100 price increase.”
“AskCarlat AI is like having your own personal librarian searching 23 years of Carlat archives. It’s only been available for a month, and the demand was so immediate we instituted a $100 price increase for the product.
Clinicians are getting the exact information they need, and we leveraged it to drive premium bundles and institutional site licenses.”
Jeff Ives
CMO, Carlat Publishing
Most AI tools are cost centers that summarize your work and send readers away. Ask My Brand is an economic engine built exclusively for publishers, turning reader curiosity into measurable enterprise value.
Engagement & Retention
When a user asks a question, Ask My Brand answers from your content instead of an external LLM. Every response keeps them engaged and links back to your IP.
First-Party Intelligence
Every query is a high-intent signal you own outright. Ask My Brand replaces disappearing third-party cookies with a real-time roadmap of exactly what your audience demands.
Monetization
Anchor a persistent category sponsorship to the tool and serve ads inside each answer at the exact moment of intent. Convert curious users into known subscribers, sell against verified demand, or package the AI as a premium product. Every conversation expands inventory. Every answer is new revenue.
3x
Click-through rates
Inline ads matched to exact user prompts generate 3x the click-through rate of standard display ads, proven across live deployments.
100%
Owned first-party data
54%
SEARCH TRAFFIC LOSS
Our team provides white-glove deployment, launching your dedicated, secure Ask My Brand instance entirely hands-off. The platform works natively with any CMS and integrates directly into your existing paywalls and newsletters. Continuum, WordPress, Drupal, Ellington, and Brightspot can be live in a single day. It’s revenue-generating infrastructure, not a massive IT project.
You are the human in the loop shaping the AI’s persona.
With our powerful prompt-blocking and redirect tools, set strict limits on source citations, instantly blacklist off-domain topics or sensitive questions, and route readers where you want them. Your AI never freelances.
You capture the exact user intent behind every question.
The dashboard translates raw conversations into verified signals, grouping queries into clear topic summaries. Instantly see daily prompt volume, trending categories, and exactly what content to publish next.
“...delivering us great audience intelligence.”
“Right out of the gate, Ask My Brand gave us insights into what questions, topics, and types of content were on readers’ minds. It is amazing how deep the tool digs to find users relevant answers, while delivering us great audience intelligence.”
Walt Cooley
VP of Publishing and Projects, Progressive Publishing
Scale your revenue. Our predictable monthly pricing is designed exclusively for media companies, mapping exactly to your query volume and portfolio size, whether you deploy on a single flagship site or across dozens of titles.
Connect with our team to map out a custom tier for your business and run a flexible, free trial designed to give your sales team time to secure a sponsor.
Asked & Answered
Everything you need to know about deploying Ask My Brand, protecting your content, and generating new revenue.
Why choose a purpose-built publisher AI over a generic chatbot?
Ask My Brand is purpose-built for publishers. It answers exclusively from your published content, preserves your exact editorial voice, and is engineered to generate revenue rather than just automate answers.
How do I ensure the AI matches my editorial voice and brand guidelines?
Ask My Brand gives you complete editorial sovereignty. From a single dashboard, you define the brand voice, set the required vertical guardrails, control the suggested prompts, and block off-limit topics entirely.
Does Ask My Brand integrate with WordPress and other CMS platforms?
Ask My Brand works natively with any CMS, including WordPress, Drupal, and Brightspot. While it delivers immediate ROI on any platform, running it on the Continuum CMS unlocks deeper native feature integrations, providing a clear upgrade path for your digital infrastructure when you are ready.
How does conversational AI generate measurable revenue?
Ask My Brand drives revenue through two distinct ad products, your owned data, and new premium products. You sell a persistent sponsorship anchored to the assistant, and serve in-line contextual ads matched to the user’s exact prompt. On top of that, you can capture leads through registration gating, sell the verified first-party intent data, or package the AI itself behind a paywall as a standalone premium product or institutional site license.
Will my proprietary content be used to train external LLMs like ChatGPT?
Ask My Brand runs on a private model. Your public content remains completely open to be crawled and cited by traditional search engines, while the proprietary content you lock down is absolutely protected from training external commercial AI models.
How long does it take to deploy, and do I need developer resources?
Ask My Brand goes live in minutes, not days. Connect your CMS and Ask My Brand indexes your published archive automatically. Zero development required.
How does pricing work if I have multiple brands or titles?
Ask My Brand does not penalize you for scaling. We architect a predictable, fixed monthly tier based on your specific operational footprint and the value generated, ensuring you are not hit with arbitrary per-brand multipliers when deploying across dozens of vertical titles.
Do you take a revenue share of the ads generated by the AI?
No. Ask My Brand is enterprise infrastructure, not an ad network. You keep 100% of the revenue generated from your persistent sponsorships, in-line contextual ads, and new subscriptions. We charge a predictable monthly SaaS fee, allowing you to scale your margins rather than splitting your profits.
How do you prevent the AI from hallucinating or making up facts?
Ask My Brand runs on a strictly bounded Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, functioning as a Private LLM on ePublishing’s AI infrastructure. It does not generate answers from the open internet or its own underlying training data. It searches exclusively within your approved content archive, extracts the exact facts, and synthesizes an answer with direct citations. If the answer is not in your content, the AI is programmed to politely say it doesn’t know.
Every day you wait is high-intent data lost to external AI. Deploy Ask My Brand across your content in days, regardless of your CMS. No developers, no massive IT project, and no risk.
Or call 312-768-6800. Give us twenty minutes, and we’ll show you exactly how to monetize the conversation.