IntentAI
Your instant AI chat assistant for search
Deliver precise, conversational answers directly from your search bar — transforming documentation, support, and site search into intelligent, dialogue-driven experiences.
What is IntentAI?
IntentAI transforms your content into a conversational expert. Built entirely on your own data, it delivers accurate, source-cited answers in natural language — eliminating keyword guesswork and replacing it with genuine dialogue. Whether your visitors are developers exploring API docs, customers navigating a help centre, or internal teams searching a knowledge base, IntentAI understands what they’re asking and responds with precision.
How IntentAI works
IntentAI converts questions into answers instantly. It interprets natural language queries and retrieves contextually rich responses from your technical documentation, help content, or knowledge base — serving developers, customers, and teams alike.
Designed for technical content
IntentAI is purpose-built to work alongside the search on your documentation site, marketing pages, or customer support knowledge base — surfacing high
Powered by your LLM
CConnect your preferred LLM provider and maintain full control over model behaviour, costs, and usage with your own API key. No vendor lock-in — switch providers as
Rapid setup
Integrate directly with bCloud DocSearch or your custom UI and begin testing immediately in the IntentAI Playground. Go from zero to live in minutes, not weeks.
Semantic comprehension
A proprietary AI layer enhances traditional keyword matching with deep semantic understanding — grasping the true meaning behind every query, not just surface-level
IntentAI key features
Conversational interface
Users ask questions in plain, natural language and receive generative answers complete with source citations. Every response links back to the original content, building trust and enabling deeper exploration.
Follow-up ready
Multi-turn interactions allow users to refine their questions, ask follow-ups, and drill deeper into topics without losing context. IntentAI maintains conversational continuity across the entire session.
Playground for testing
Quickly validate your implementation, test different prompts, and fine-tune response quality in a visual sandbox environment — before deploying a single line of code to production.
Intelligent content chunking
Advanced Markdown indexing and intelligent content segmentation ensure your documents are processed with optimal granularity — improving context retention and delivering significantly more accurate responses.
See IntentAI running on bCloud DocSearch
bCloud DocSearch makes your technical documentation instantly searchable — and it’s free for open-source projects. IntentAI is integrated directly into DocSearch, delivering conversational answers alongside traditional search results. Try pressing Ctrl+K on PC or ⌘+K on Mac to experience it in action.
IntentAI FAQs
Answers to the most common questions about our AI-powered search platform.
What is IntentAI?
IntentAI is a generative AI layer that enhances your documentation, help centre, or website by providing natural-language answers drawn directly from your existing content. It transforms static search into an interactive, conversational experience — helping users find precise answers faster without manual browsing.
Do I need to be using bCloud DocSearch to enable IntentAI?
No. While IntentAI integrates seamlessly with bCloud DocSearch for the fastest setup experience, it works equally well with custom user interfaces. It can also be deployed for non-documentation use cases with any record structure — not just documentation page formats. Product catalogues, FAQ databases, and knowledge bases are all supported.
Can I connect my own LLM provider?
Absolutely. IntentAI is fully LLM-agnostic, allowing you to connect the model provider of your choice using your own API key. You retain complete control over model selection, cost management, and usage policies — with no intermediary fees or vendor lock-in.
Which LLMs are supported?
bCloud AI supports a broad range of large language model providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral, Grok, and more. You can choose the model that best fits your requirements for accuracy, speed, and cost. See the complete list of supported models in our documentation.
How long does it take to set up IntentAI?
bCloud DocSearch customers can have IntentAI fully operational in minutes — simply enable the feature and configure your LLM provider. Custom implementations with bespoke UIs or non-documentation use cases may require additional configuration, but our APIs and pre-built components make even complex deployments achievable within days, not weeks.
How does IntentAI prevent inaccurate or hallucinated responses?
IntentAI uses Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to anchor every response in your actual indexed content. Instead of generating answers from the LLM’s general training data, it retrieves specific passages from your documentation and uses them to construct responses. This grounding approach dramatically reduces hallucination risk, and every answer includes source citations so users can verify the information independently.
Can IntentAI handle multi-turn conversations?
Yes. IntentAI supports full multi-turn dialogue, maintaining conversational context across multiple exchanges. Users can ask follow-up questions, refine their queries, and explore related topics without losing the thread of the conversation — making it significantly more effective than traditional single-query search.
What types of content can IntentAI work with?
IntentAI works with any content indexed in bCloud AI — including technical documentation, API references, help centre articles, knowledge base entries, product catalogues, blog posts, FAQs, and internal wikis. The intelligent chunking engine processes content at the optimal granularity regardless of format, ensuring accurate retrieval across all content types.