Ask Salem AI Office Assistant v9.0.0

CENTRAL MONETIZATION BUILD — v9.0.2
- The full Ask Salem product-control admin is reserved for the central owner.
- Customer sites receive a Subscription dashboard instead of the main product admin.
- Visitor AI is fail-closed and hidden until the customer's subscription is active.
- Central owner can mark each AI feature Visible, Locked, Monetized or Hidden.
- Flutterwave recurring subscriptions are processed by the separate Ask Salem Central Monetization controller.
- Install the central controller on the product-owner WordPress site and configure its Flutterwave payment-plan ID, secret key and webhook secret hash.
- Flutterwave webhook: /wp-json/ask-salem-central/v1/flutterwave/webhook

Existing Ask Salem features remain in this build; AI access is now entitlement-controlled.

Ask Salem AI Office Assistant v8.9.27

CUSTOMER DOCUMENTATION
See the documentation/ folder for the complete customer guide, setup instructions, feature overview and troubleshooting guide.

IMPORTANT
Ask Salem connects to the Pidgin Intelligence gateway for AI features. Depending on the installation, the gateway may be detected automatically when the relevant Pidgin Intelligence/Central plugin is installed on the same WordPress site, or a separately hosted gateway URL/API key may be configured.

VERSION HISTORY

Ask Salem AI Office Assistant v8.8.2

Visitor AI search button reliability update:
- Visitor AI suggestion buttons now use a delegated click handler, so they work even when themes/plugins redraw the visitor panel.
- The main Ask Salem website-search button is bound directly and retried briefly after page load.
- Enter in the visitor search box now runs the website search.
- The visitor search sends the question to the existing website intelligence AJAX endpoint and displays verified website results and relevant links.
- Added clearer loading/error handling without changing the company/owner workspace.

Ask Salem AI Office Assistant v8.7.31

Social feed and company-post reliability update:
- Fixed Central Pidgin Market interaction-key detection for both pidgin-market: and pidgin_market: keys.
- Like, repost, share and comment now use the correct interaction source.
- Mixed Central Feed interaction states are merged instead of one source overwriting the other.
- Company posts remain stored locally and are inserted into the Central Feed immediately after publishing.
- Company posts continue syncing to Pidgin Market in the background when the Market connection is temporarily unavailable.
- Feed action order is Like, Repost, Share, Comment.


Ask Salem v8.9.5 — Visitor Local Website Crawler
- Visitor website questions now use a first-party local crawler before AI analysis.
- Search pattern follows Pidgin Market worker discovery: query -> local records -> relevance ranking -> structured results -> AI analysis.
- The crawler fetches matching public pages from the same website, extracts title, metadata, headings and visible content, and sends the evidence to Pidgin Intelligence.
- It never searches external sites, bypasses login/private content, or invents website facts.


= 8.9.18 =
* Replaced the retired visitor AI-search implementation with one unified Pidgin Market-style website search engine.
* Visitor questions now rank the site's canonical WordPress records, optionally discover same-site sitemap URLs, verify the best matches against live public pages, then send only verified same-site context to Salem AI.
* External web, Pidgin Market and social-media sources are explicitly disabled for visitor website questions.
* Visitor chat and the standalone website-search box now use the same search engine and fallback behavior.


Ask Salem v8.9.22: adds post-retrieval AI analysis/decision support. Retrieved website evidence is now explicitly treated as evidence that Salem analyzes before answering. Existing search, visitor/company UI, Market integration, presence, chat, and fallback behavior are preserved. Advice questions can receive a reasoned recommendation while clearly separating confirmed facts, inference, recommendations, and unknowns.


Ask Salem v8.9.22: adds post-retrieval AI analysis/decision support. Retrieved website evidence is explicitly treated as evidence that Salem analyzes before answering. Existing search, visitor/company UI, Market integration, presence, chat, and fallback behavior are preserved. Advice questions can receive a reasoned recommendation while clearly separating confirmed facts, inference, recommendations, and unknowns.


8.9.24: Mistral AI is explicitly selected for visitor post-retrieval analysis and natural customer-care conversation through the Pidgin Intelligence gateway. Verified website results are passed to Mistral before the final answer. Small talk is also handled by Mistral with conversation history. Existing search, fallback, company chat, presence and UI behavior are retained.


Ask Salem v8.10.2 — Company Affiliate Program
- Added a full Company Affiliate Center to the Ask Salem company dashboard.
- Companies can generate their tracked affiliate link, set referrer/platform commission rates, view affiliate metrics and recent conversion activity.
- Affiliate management remains on the company side and is not dependent on WordPress Admin navigation.

- Company-side monetized/locked AI features visibly show a clickable lock; clicking the lock opens the Ask Salem Subscription page.
