# You can now use Discourse to power your own AI Q&A homepage
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-now-use-discourse-to-power-your-own-ai-q-a-homepage/413016
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [September 22, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-now-use-discourse-to-power-your-own-ai-q-a-homepage/413016 "2026-09-22T13:24:00Z")
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-now-use-discourse-to-power-your-own-ai-q-a-homepage/413016/1 "2026-09-22T13:24:01Z")
If you’re following the latest release channel, you can now access settings that allow you to run your own AI bot discussion site like [ask.discourse.com](http://ask.discourse.com)!
The new settings are:
1. An `ai bot conversations` option in the `default homepage` site setting.
2. The option to add `anonymous users` to the `AI bot allowed groups` site setting
To learn more about configuring AI in Discourse check out our overview of the [Discourse AI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214) plugin. All [our hosted Discourse plans](https://www.discourse.org/pricing) include credits to use with our preconfigured [Discourse-hosted LLMs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlock-all-discourse-ai-features-with-our-hosted-llm/390985). 🚀
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2026, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-now-use-discourse-to-power-your-own-ai-q-a-homepage/413016/4 "2026-09-22T17:45:03Z")
You can use the above functionality to create an AI site for just about anything!
The most obvious case would be following our example of providing a standalone support experience — so your `forum.example.com` could power a separate `ask.example.com` site and help answer questions for your customers.
Here’s how you can do that on a new Discourse install following our [ask.discourse.com](http://ask.discourse.com) example. This assumes you have already enabled the Discourse AI plugin, have configured an LLM, and enabled the [bot feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-ai-bot/266012) from `admin/plugins/discourse-ai/ai-features`.
For [ask.discourse.com](http://ask.discourse.com), in the Discourse AI plugin we’ve created a “Discourse Helper” agent using our hosted LLM (we’re currently using DeepSeek, but you can use whatever is available to you). This agent has a system prompt and some search tools.
1. Create a new agent in the AI plugin on your `ask.example.com`, and start with a prompt
2. Create some tools — we have custom read and search tools added to the agent. Essentially these give the agent the ability to search a Discourse site effectively. Here’s how they’re configured:
That’s everything! Using this as a starting point you can have your very own `ask.example.com`
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-now-use-discourse-to-power-your-own-ai-q-a-homepage/413016/5 "2026-09-22T20:51:01Z")
This also makes me think of the [app interviewer idea](https://meta.discourse.org/t/app-interviewer/390550). Could a future version guide someone through a task by asking follow-up questions, helping them find the right information, or gathering the details needed for a useful bug report? Having the AI help along the way can make a complex task much more approachable.