Optimizing an article by using the AI Assistant in the Digital editor of Studio

When writing articles, a lot of time can be spent on tasks such as making sure that the story contains the required numbered of words, changing the tone and style of the article, coming up with different titles, writing titles for search engine optimization, and so on.

These tasks are often repetitive and optionally done using (AI) tools outside of Studio.

The AI Assistant in the Digital editor of Studio aims to make this process more efficient by:

• Reducing repetitive editorial work
• Improving efficiency without sacrificing quality
• Keeping AI usage embedded, controlled, and review-based
• Ensuring human judgment remains central to publishing decisions

This article explains how the AI Assistant works and how it can be used.

Figure: The AI Assistant in Studio. Here, suggestions for new titles were generated.

How it works

The AI Assistant is made available as a separate panel that is part of the Digital editor.

Its features analyze the content of a Digital article and provide suggestions on how it can be improved.

In short, it can do the following:

• Lengthen the article by roughly doubling it
• Shorten the article by roughly halving it
• Revise the tone and style by making it:
• Formal
• Informal
• Positive
• Empathetic
• Serious
• Friendly
• Suggest new titles
• Suggest SEO titles
• Process prompts entered by users (requires Studio 11.213 or higher)

The results can be easily copied to the clipboard so that it can be used to replace the original text.

Note: For information about how Artificial Intelligence is used in Studio, see AI functionality in WoodWing Studio: transparency & security.

How all the features work in detail is described later in this article.

Availability

The AI Assistant is available on request for users of Studio in the WoodWing Cloud depending on the selected package. For details, see Setting up the AI Assistant of the Digital editor in Studio.

Quick start

The following steps provide a quick overview of using the AI Assistant. See the rest of the article for an in-depth explanation of each option.

Step 1. Open a Digital article that you want to analyze using the AI Assistant.

Step 2. In the toolbar on the right side, click the AI Assistant icon to open the AI Assistant panel.

Step 3. Do one of the following:

• At the top of the panel, choose a prompt from the list below 'How can we assist you today?'.
• At the bottom of the panel, enter a prompt in the 'Describe the edits you have in mind' field (requires Studio 11.213 or higher) and press Enter or click the Send prompt button.

The prompt is shown in a 'speech bubble' aligned to the right side of the panel, similar to using a chat box.

The results are displayed in a separate bubble aligned to the left side of the panel.

Tip: If the suggested feedback does not match your needs, enter a new prompt (requires Studio 11.213 or higher), or click the Redo icon at the bottom of the bubble to run the action again.

Step 4. Depending on the option that was used and the way the results are shown, do one of the following:

• Manually select the feedback, copy it to the clipboard, and update the article with it.
• Click on one of the titles or on a paragraph to copy it to the pasteboard.
• Click the Copy icon at the bottom of the bubble to copy all feedback and update the article with it.

Step 5. Continue by choosing one of the following options at the bottom of the panel:

• Enter a new prompt (requires Studio 11.213 or higher).
• Choose a new action to run from the list.
• Click Reset session to clear the panel, reset the session, and start from scratch.

Note: When the session is reset, earlier responses from AI cannot be referred to anymore.

The AI Assistant panel

This section describes the general working of the AI Assistant panel.

Accessing

To access the AI Assistant panel, click the AI Assistant icon in the toolbar on the right side.

Components

The AI Assistant panel contains the following components:

1. The panel in its default state.
2. The panel showing results after running an action.
3. The list of actions to choose from.
4. The action that was chosen to run.
5. The results generated by AI.
6. The Copy icon to copy the content of the bubble.
7. The Copy icon to copy the full results to the clipboard.
8. The Redo icon to run the action again.
9. The field for entering a prompt (requires Studio 11.213 or higher)
10. The Reset session button to reset the panel to its default state and reset the session.
11. The Send prompt button.

Actions

The following actions are available:

• Lengthen (± x2). Lengthens the article by roughly doubling it.

• Shorten (± 50%). Shortens the article by roughly halving it.

• Revise tone and style. Changes the tone and style of the article. Choose from the following options:
• Formal
• Informal
• Positive
• Empathetic
• Serious
• Friendly

• Suggest new titles. Suggests new titles, not necessarily optimized for search engines.

• Suggest SEO titles. Suggests new titles that are optimized for search engines.

• Users prompts. (Requires Studio 11.213 or higher) Enter a prompt to start or continue a session. A prompt can also refer to the results of earlier responses and can reference other answers or questions within the same session.

Revisions

• 4 March 2026: Added information about the ability for users to enter their own prompt.
• 4 February 2026: Re-written the article to reflect the new working of the AI Assistant.