Many businesses find that the challenge with a website isn't whether to build one, but that no one maintains it after it's done. Changing a site name requires finding someone, writing a product description means waiting for scheduling, and translating content into English requires hiring someone else. X1 places an AI assistant in the backend specifically to handle these chores.
What role does it play?
Think of it as an extra helper in the backend that understands your website. You don't need to dig through settings; just describe your needs in plain language, such as "help me build a bilingual tea-selling site," and it will ask for necessary information and then provide specific modification plans.
The three most common daily tasks: writing copy, translating, and troubleshooting or changing configurations. In the article and product editing pages, you can have it draft titles and body text; when content needs to be translated into other enabled languages, just hand it over; and for questions about site status, SEO changes, theme adjustments, enabling or disabling modules, or creating new categories and single pages, you can directly tell it.
The settings page is still there, of course. When you need precise adjustments to a specific item, just edit it by section. The assistant doesn't replace settings; it enables people unfamiliar with the backend to get things done.
The key point business owners should care about: it won't make random changes
This is the most noteworthy aspect of the feature's design. When the assistant proposes changes, it first lists each item's "before → after" for you to review. This step is only a preview and does not write any data. After you check and click confirm, the changes take effect.
After execution, an "Undo" button appears below the message, allowing you to revert the entire set of changes to the state before execution. Multiple changes in one conversation are treated as a change group, executed together and undone together.
The meaning for businesses is direct: you can let less technical people touch the backend. A mistake isn't a disaster—just click undo and it's back. The old arguments about "who changed it, what was changed, and can it be restored" can basically be eliminated.
Two scenarios to illustrate
An industrial parts company has product catalogs and spreadsheets piled up with the sales team. In the past, adding new products meant entering them one by one. Now, you can import catalogs, spreadsheets, image packages, or product webpage URLs as product drafts, check the recognition results in the preview, adjust the table column mapping, and after confirmation, draft products are generated. After verification, they can be published one by one. If there's a problem with the whole batch, just undo the batch. Having someone check before publishing is important for doing business.
Another foreign trade company has only Chinese content on its site. To help overseas customers understand, the content needs to be translated into other enabled languages. Previously, it was export, find a translator, then paste back. Now, you can have the assistant translate right in the editing page. It saves the time of passing files back and forth and reduces the hassle of version mismatches.
What you need to prepare
Both the assistant and backend translation rely on external AI services, so you need to apply for an API Key from a service provider and enter it in the backend. You can choose a provider from the preset list; the API address and model will be automatically filled with recommended values, usually no changes needed. Running models locally is also supported, keeping data on your server.
The key is equivalent to account credentials—anyone who has it can spend your money, so don't share it. It's worth making this clear to the responsible colleague during configuration.
Additionally, the assistant can only call site operations registered in the backend, and viewing site status will not return any keys; replies are displayed as plain text and will not execute any HTML or scripts within. Request frequency is rate-limited per administrator, with limits per minute and per day.
In the context of X1
X1 is the AI entry point plus business modules for enterprises, with content, shop, membership, inventory, etc. enabled as needed. The AI assistant is not an isolated tool; it sits on top of these modules to help you streamline the foundational tasks of configuration, content, and language. Once the foundation is smooth, the business modules can run effectively.
X1 itself is free and source-available. Welcome to visit the X1 product page to see a demo or download a trial and try it out yourself.