Livada SEO 1.13: the first WordPress SEO plugin with a built-in Claude AI Assistant

Today, May 31, 2026, we're shipping Livada SEO 1.13.0 — the first version of a WordPress SEO plugin that natively integrates a Claude AI assistant to answer your technical questions, in French, 24/7, at no extra cost.

This release doesn't fix a bug. It fills a gap the industry has left unaddressed for ten years: the gap between a powerful SEO plugin and a user who doesn't know where to start.

The problem nobody solves

You install Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, or AIOSEO. The interface throws 200 settings at you, 40 acronyms (canonical, hreflang, schema, breadcrumbs, sitemap…), 12 widgets, and an 800-page "Documentation."

If you're a hotelier, campsite manager, restaurateur, or local shop owner, you don't have time to learn SEO on top of managing your bookings, your team, and your customers. You just want someone to tell you "click here, do this."

Traditional SEO plugins leave you alone with the docs. Livada SEO 1.13.0 puts an end to that.

The solution: a Claude that knows your plugin inside out

Starting with this version, every Livada SEO license includes the Livada AI Assistant — a Claude (Anthropic) trained specifically on the plugin's documentation, architecture, and workflows.

In practice: you type a question in French, like:

• "How do I enable the Hotel schema on my homepage?"
• "Why is my /llms.txt empty?"
• "How do I block GPTBot but allow ChatGPT-Search?"
• "My AI Visibility score is stuck at 67, what's blocking it?"
• "What's the difference between LocalBusiness and LodgingBusiness for a B&B?"

The assistant replies within seconds, with the right steps for your specific case, in your language, at any hour. No ghost tickets, no docs to comb through.

How to access it

Two ways in:

1. From WordPress — in the admin, go to Livada SEO → AI Bots Access. You'll see a "Livada AI Assistant" button at the top. One click opens the chat at livada.io/help-ai.
2. Directly on the web — go to livada.io/help-ai. No login required, the chat is open to everyone (customers and prospects alike), so you can gauge the quality before buying.

The assistant works with zero configuration. No API key to provide — Livada absorbs the AI cost, within the limits of reasonable use.

Why no competitor offers this

Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO do not include a contextual AI assistant in their license. At best, they offer a paid AI Writer add-on to generate meta descriptions (~$10/month extra), which isn't the same use case: an AI Writer writes text, a contextual assistant explains how to use the product.

Why the difference? Three reasons:

1. The AI cost — every question consumes Claude tokens. For a publisher with 13 million installs like Yoast, offering this for free is financially untenable.
2. Product expertise — the assistant has to know your plugin, not Wikipedia SEO. That takes a precise system prompt, testing, and a team that masters both AI and its own code.
3. Publisher culture — the big SEO plugins come from traditional SEO. They haven't yet grasped that AI is now the default usage layer. Livada SEO starts from there — it's our AI-native DNA, not a bolted-on patch.

In 2026, Livada SEO is the only WordPress SEO plugin to offer a contextual Claude AI assistant included in every license (Solo €39/year early-bird, Studio €124/year, Agency €349/year, Lifetime €249 one-time).

Under the hood

For the technically curious:

• Model: Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) — fast, cost-effective, perfect for factual Q&A
• Hosting: livada.io/api/help-ai endpoint on Cloudflare Pages (latency <200 ms in Europe)
• System prompt: injects the full Livada SEO documentation + plugin context + professional French tone
• Streaming: not yet (single-shot response, ~2 s)
• Conversation storage: none — questions are not retained
• GDPR: compliant — you can ask questions without providing your identity

What's next?

v1.13.0 is the first building block. The assistant roadmap includes:

• v1.13.1 — a contextual "AI Help" button across every admin view of the plugin (not just AI Bots Access), with the current page's context injected
• v1.14 — an assistant able to read your site's WP settings (via REST API + Application Password) to answer using the real values of your configuration
• v1.15 — RAG over the full documentation + Livada.io tutorials + release notes, for even more precise answers
• v1.16 — multilingual support (English, Spanish, Italian) for international customers

How to try it now

If you're already a customer: force a plugin update check from your WordPress admin (Plugins → Check for updates). v1.13.0 will show up in the list. Update, and the "Livada AI Assistant" button will be available in Livada SEO → AI Bots Access.

If you're not a customer: try the assistant directly at livada.io/help-ai. Ask your question, judge the quality yourself, and then decide whether Livada SEO is worth its €39/year early-bird price.

Final word

An SEO plugin has to do two things: optimize your site, and help you understand what you're doing. For ten years, publishers have done the first while forgetting the second. Livada SEO 1.13.0 fixes that.

If you try the assistant and find a question it gets wrong, write to me at [email protected]. That's how we improve it, version after version.

— Florin Livada · May 31, 2026