Bastian Assistant Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Bastian is a hosted AI chat assistant that answers visitor questions about your site — what it is, what it offers, how to get started, who to contact. It deliberately stays in its lane: it is not a general-purpose chatbot and will politely decline off-topic requests.
Every reply Bastian gives passes through PsiGuard, a monitoring layer that checks the assistant’s reasoning in real time and steadies it if it starts to drift, so visitors get accurate, on-topic answers.
An account is required. Bastian is a hosted service (like a live-chat provider). This plugin is the connector: you sign up at heybastian.com, get a license key (a free tier is available), paste it into the plugin’s settings, and the chat widget appears on your site. All AI processing happens on the Bastian service — nothing heavy runs on your server.
Features
- Site-specific assistant that answers from notes and FAQs you control from your Bastian dashboard
- Real-time PsiGuard monitoring on every reply
- Free tier available; paid plans raise the monthly conversation limit
- Widget appearance (greeting, colors, position) configured from your Bastian dashboard
- Optional “Protected by” credit — off by default, entirely your choice
- Hide the widget for logged-in users (so your own testing doesn’t count against your allowance)
- Exclude the widget on specific pages or posts by ID or slug
- One-click license re-check from the settings screen
External services
This plugin connects to the Bastian service (operated by PsiCo) at heybastian.com. It is required for the plugin to function — the plugin is an interface to this hosted service.
What is sent, and when:
- When you save your license key in the plugin settings, the license key and your site’s URL are sent to the service to validate the key.
- When the chat widget loads on your site, the license key and your site’s hostname are sent to fetch your widget settings.
- When a visitor sends a chat message, the following are sent to generate a reply: the message itself, the recent conversation history, the visible text of the page the visitor is viewing (so Bastian can answer questions about what’s on screen), a randomly generated visitor identifier stored in the visitor’s browser, the license key, and your site’s hostname.
Conversation history is stored in the visitor’s own browser (localStorage), not in WordPress.
Service terms: https://heybastian.com/terms
Privacy policy: https://heybastian.com/privacy
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