ForumBot gives your XenForo forum a private 1:1 AI chat for registered members, grounded first in your community's own content. Members ask questions, explore your forum's subject matter, and get answers without posting publicly. When the whole thread should see the answer, they can @tag the bot right in the conversation.
It's a managed service. The free addon handles the in-forum experience, and your subscription covers the AI backend, an agent prompt engineered for your forum, and ongoing improvements.
per month, cancel anytime
Get a licenseForumBot serves your community in three ways: private knowledge uplift in chat, admin-driven content in threads, and contextual help on the posts in your forum.
Your forum gets an onsite AI chat page where members type questions and get answers grounded first in your community's content. Guests are prompted to register or log in.
Members you permit (by usergroup) can tag your bot by name in any post. It reads the thread context, consults your knowledge base, and replies in the thread. Replies are held for staff moderation before they appear, unless you grant the usergroup a bypass.
A small icon appears on posts. Clicking it takes the member to the 1:1 chat page, where the bot reads that post and its prior context and then explains it, summarizes it, or answers questions about it (i.e., "explain this post").
Members save personal context, such as their setup, gear, goals or background, and opt in per chat to attach it to their questions. The bot then grounds its answers in those saved details rather than giving a generic response.
Each member fills in a personal "Project Info" document (up to 1,500 characters) describing their situation: tank setup, gear list, current project, area of focus, or any other context they want the bot to know.
A "Use Project Info" toggle in the chat panel lets the member decide when to attach their saved context. It starts off each session, and Clear chat resets it too, so old context doesn't carry into unrelated questions.
Two-layer permission gating (a master option plus a per-user permission) lets you enable Project Info only for the usergroups that should have it, for example admins, mods and paid tiers. An optional coaching field lets you guide members on what to include.
ForumBot is a managed service. You install the free addon, subscribe at forumbot.net, and receive a license key. That key is all you enter in AdminCP.
Free download from the XenForo Resource Manager.
Subscribe via Stripe, then work with us to provision your account (e.g., content ingestion and agent definition using our XenForo-ready template).
Enter your license key, create a bot user account, and enable the features you want. Remember to set usergroup permissions for access (AI chat features are not available to guests).
The license key is the only credential your forum ever needs, unlocking your forum's AI services powered by Xpertloop.ai through Deep Intuition LLC.
Every ForumBot subscription includes optional knowledge base ingestion. We work with you to populate your bot's KB from your existing content, using up to three optional CSV files:
An agent with no KB submission still answers from its agent prompt and general knowledge; the KB files are how you ground it in your own content. You provide the exports, and we handle the upload and configuration on the backend.
Bring-your-own-key AI addons need an account with OpenAI, Anthropic, or another provider, and you pay that provider's usage bill on top of the addon price. ForumBot includes the AI backend in one monthly price.
$40/month, and you can cancel anytime. The addon is free to download, and the subscription is billed separately through Stripe at forumbot.net.
TONMO.com has run this AI stack since 2025, answering members from a 25-year archive of cephalopod knowledge. To try it, request demo credentials, email support@forumbot.net, or just join TONMO.
"I found this tool yesterday, and just want to give a big thank you to everyone that put this together! For someone trying to learn this makes it so much easier to find what I'm looking for. So far the responses have been excellent, or leading me to previous threads to read more." link
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I've run TONMO, a cephalopod community, since 2000. ForumBot is the AI stack that runs there, now packaged as a XenForo addon. Deep Intuition LLC operates the service. For questions, email support@forumbot.net or message @tonmo on XenForo.
No. ForumBot is fully managed and your subscription covers the AI backend, so there are no API keys or provider accounts to set up.
After you subscribe, we work with you to ingest your forum content (or instructions, articles, documents and so on) into your bot's knowledge base and to customize your agent. You provide an export, and we handle the upload and configuration on the backend.
Chat logs are off by default. When you enable them, they're stored in your XenForo database, visible only to your admins in AdminCP, and deleted after 30 days. Deep Intuition LLC and Xpertloop have no access to that log. Questions are sent to Xpertloop to generate a reply and aren't kept by us or Xpertloop; the underlying AI model provider may keep limited records under its standard API policy. Our gateway passes each question to the AI backend to generate a reply and doesn't store chat content. Shared snapshots are stored in your forum's own database and auto-delete after 5 days.
Yes. ForumBot integrates with XenForo's permission system, so you decide which user groups can use the chat page and which can @tag the bot. Tagged replies are held in your moderation queue for staff review before they post, unless you grant the group a bypass.
When you enable chat sharing in AdminCP, members get a "Share chat" link in the chat panel that creates a public, read-only snapshot URL of their conversation. Shared snapshots are stored in your forum's own database and auto-delete after 5 days. Members manage and delete their own active shares from a sidebar link, and admins review and remove all active shares from AdminCP > Logs > Shared chats. Sharing is off by default.
Disabling it immediately stops new shares from being created, and the "Share chat" button disappears for members. Access to existing share URLs is paused while sharing is disabled; re-enabling it restores access until each share's 5-day window expires. Admins can also remove active shares at any time from AdminCP > Logs > Shared chats.
Cancellation takes effect at the end of your billing period. The addon stays installed, but the bot stops responding without an active license.
Yes. ForumBot is a standard XenForo addon and needs no server-level access. Download the free addon here.