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AI Search Pages

Turn a sidekick's knowledge base into a public search page. Visitors type a question and get a short answer in your sidekick's voice, followed by the documents and exact passages behind it. It's a different surface from chat: no conversation, just search results people can check.

Search page or chat?

	Chat embed	AI Search page
Best for	Conversations, help, getting things done with abilities	Libraries, archives, research, "where did we write about…?"
What people get	A back-and-forth conversation	A short answer plus a list of matching documents with highlighted passages
Sign-in	Members, or guests if allowed	None. Anyone with the link can use it.
Abilities	Yes	No. It only searches documents.

Set it up on the sidekick's Connections tab, in the AI Search card.

Publishing a search page

The AI Search card with the Publish a search page toggle, the Exact to Meaning ranking slider, results per page, and the new-content default options — Connections → AI Search.

Try it privately first

Press Test search to search the knowledge base yourself before anything is public.

Check what would become public

Click Show me what would become public. It summarises the documents the page would expose, by type and count.

Turn it on and save

Switch on Publish a search page, confirm, and press Save Changes. The page goes live when you save.

A published search page is public. Anyone with the link can search, and read, every document granted to this sidekick, with no sign-in. Narrow it with document types and tags, or give the page its own sidekick with only public documents attached.

Ranking and results

Default ranking: a slider from Exact (documents that contain the words typed) to Meaning (documents about the same idea, even in different words). Visitors can move it themselves. This only sets where it starts.
Results per page: from 5 to 50.
Re-rank results with the client's reranker: puts the results in a better order, at a cost of about 1.7 seconds per new search.

What the page covers

The sidekick can still use every attached document in chat. These settings only decide what the search page returns and quotes.

Document types to search

Tick the kinds of document to include, such as PDF or Markdown. With none ticked, every type is included. The list fills in after you click Show me what would become public.

Tags this search covers

If you use access tags, choose which tagged parts of the knowledge base this page is for. With none ticked, the whole knowledge base is covered. This lets you keep members-only material out of a public search while the sidekick still uses it in chat. A signed-in reader still only ever sees documents their own tags allow.

When new content arrives from your site

This decides what happens to documents that sync in later, for example from WordPress:

Anyone can read it: for a site where everything is free. You never need to tag anything.
Hold it until someone says who may read it: for a site with members-only content. New documents are readable by nobody until you tag them. The Knowledge Base page counts them so they can't be forgotten.

Wording and answer settings

Setting	What it does
Search box placeholder	The hint text inside the empty search box.
Page heading (optional)	A title shown above the search box.
Write an AI answer above the results	The sidekick writes a short answer with numbered references to the results. Each new search uses one AI call.
Let visitors open documents that have no public URL	Results that came from an upload rather than a web page open in a built-in viewer. Turn it off and those results can't be opened, which on most knowledge bases is the majority of them.

Limiting where it can be used

Allowed sites (one per line, blank = anywhere): lists the websites allowed to embed the search, for example https://example.com.
Only allow requests from those sites: refuses requests that don't come from one of those pages. That includes the standalone link, so only turn this on when the search is embedded.

This isn't a password. It stops other sites and casual link-sharing, but not a determined person. If the search sits behind a login on your own site, your login is what protects it.

What people searched for

Leave Record what visitors search for on (no IP addresses are stored), then open What people searched for. Choose 7, 30 or 90 days and press Load.

The most useful part is the list of searches that found nothing. That's the content your visitors wanted and your knowledge base doesn't have yet.

What visitors see

A public search page: a search box with an Exact to Meaning slider, a short answer from the sidekick with numbered references, and matching documents with highlighted passages — A published search page: the answer on top, with the documents and passages it came from below.

A search box with the Exact ↔ Meaning slider, a Sort menu and an AI answer checkbox.
Filter chips by document type, with counts.
The answer, with numbered references that point to the results below it.
Each matching document, with the matched words highlighted and a link to open it.