Askeet vs OpenStation

Stop reading dashboards. Talk to your data. A freelance data analyst costs $500–$3,000/month. Askeet does the same job for $19/month, available 24/7, with zero technical skills required. Type a question. Get the answer, the chart, and a recommendation — instantly. Example questions you can ask “Show me my top 10 customers this month” “Which products are selling best by region?” “How does this month’s revenue compare to last month?” “What’s my refund rate over the last 90 days?” “Which customers haven’t ordered in 3 months?” “Plot daily sales for the last 30 days” Each answer comes with interactive charts (line, bar, pie, area), a plain-language summary, and actionable recommendations — no SQL, no dashboards, no learning curve. What’s new in v4 🎨 All-new interface (Reach design system) — chat-first home, 3 focused tabs (Ask · Store health · Automations), Saved Queries as a rail, Chart/Table toggle on every answer, and a cleaner upgrade screen ⚡ Faster & self-contained — self-hosted fonts and charts, zero third-party network calls, cache-busted assets ♿ Accessibility pass — ARIA tabs with keyboard navigation, visible focus, reduced-motion support 🐛 Key fixes — stopped an internal AI prompt leaking into Saved Query labels, restored button contrast (WCAG-AA), fixed answer compression, and honest empty states for zero-data stores What’s new in v3 📊 Interactive charts in answers — bar / line / pie / area, auto-selected by AI from your data shape 🎁 14-day Business trial on install — no credit card, all features unlocked 🔥 Founder’s price $19/mo for life — first 200 customers, locked in forever 💼 Business plan with webhooks, REST API, and multi-store (up to 5 stores) 📚 100+ pre-built insights library — sales, products, customers, orders, inventory, marketing, finance 🩺 Store Health Score with proactive weekly alerts ☕ Monday Morning Brief — weekly digest of your KPIs by email 🧠 Smarter AI — now reads your real database conventions (HPOS-aware, real meta_keys, prefer denormalized lookup tables) for dramatically more accurate SQL Why Askeet changes everything 🚀 Save 10+ hours per week — no more manual reports 💡 Decide in seconds, not days — answers in 5 seconds 📈 Grow your revenue — discover opportunities hidden in your data 🎯 Zero learning curve — if you can ask a question, you can use Askeet 🔒 Your data stays put — only your question is sent to Askeet, never your customer/order data Perfect for Store owners who want answers without learning a dashboard Marketing managers tracking campaign performance Operations / inventory managers watching stock and orders Agencies running multiple WooCommerce stores Anyone tired of opening 5 tabs to answer one question Key features 🎤 Natural-language interface Ask in plain English, French, Spanish, German, Arabic — the plugin adapts to your WordPress language No SQL, no dashboards to learn Conversational follow-ups: “and last month?”, “filter by France only”, “sorted by revenue” 📊 Interactive charts (Pro+) Bar charts for rankings and comparisons Line charts for time-series trends Pie charts for breakdowns and proportions Area charts for cumulative growth Hover tooltips, responsive sizing Persisted in saved reports — re-render on demand 📁 Exports (Pro+) PDF for client/team reports Excel for further analysis CSV for ETL pipelines Up to 10,000 rows per export 📚 100+ insights library Sales: revenue trends, top products, AOV, daily/weekly/monthly views Customers: VIPs, lifetime value, new vs returning, cohorts Inventory: low-stock alerts, out-of-stock, dead stock Orders: status breakdown, refund rate, completion rate Finance: revenue per channel, tax breakdown, gross margin Marketing: campaign performance, conversion by source, abandoned-cart analysis 🩺 Store Health Score Composite 0-100 score across sales, inventory, customers, operations Sub-scores per area Actionable recommendations History trend (Business plan) 🔔 Proactive alerts (Pro+) Pro: 5 weekly alerts (top anomalies and opportunities) Business: unlimited, with custom thresholds 📧 Automated reports Pro: Monday Morning Brief (weekly KPI digest) Business: daily, weekly, and monthly reports 🔌 Outbound webhooks (Business) Slack, n8n, Zapier, Make, custom URLs Fire on report delivery, alert trigger Signed payloads 🔑 REST API (Business) wp-json/askeet/v1/insights, /reports, /health-score Per-install API keys Build your own dashboards or sync with your data warehouse 🏪 Multi-store (Business) Connect up to 5 WooCommerce stores under one account Switch between them in the plugin header Aggregated reports across all stores 🔒 Privacy & security Your customer, order, and product data never leaves your server Only the natural-language question + an anonymized schema dump goes to Askeet GDPR compliant Stripe-secured payments 30-day money-back guarantee Pricing 🆓 Free — $0/mo forever * 50 queries / month * Text answers * 10 starter insights * Community support 💼 Pro — $19/mo billed yearly (or $29/mo monthly) * Unlimited queries * Interactive charts * PDF / Excel / CSV export * Health Score * 5 weekly proactive alerts * Monday Morning Brief * 100+ insights library * Email support (24h) 🚀 Business — $49/mo billed yearly (or $79/mo monthly) * Everything in Pro * Unlimited proactive alerts * Daily + weekly + monthly reports * Slack / n8n / Zapier webhooks * REST API access * Multi-store (up to 5) * Priority support (12h SLA) 🔥 Founder’s price — $19/mo for life (limited to 200 seats) * Same unlimited Pro plan * Locked at $19/mo as long as you stay subscribed * No yearly commitment required 30-day money-back guarantee Not satisfied? Get a full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. Visit https://www.askeet.ai/ to learn more. Source Code The unminified source code for JavaScript and CSS is included in the /assets/js/ and /assets/css/ folders of this plugin. External Services This plugin connects to https://api.askeet.ai to process AI queries, check user plans, and manage subscriptions. Data sent: site URL, install ID, the natural-language question, and an anonymized list of your database table names. No customer, order, or product data is sent. Service provider: Askeet (Reach Technologies) Legal Notice: https://www.askeet.ai/#mentions Privacy Policy: https://www.askeet.ai/#privacy Support & Community Website: https://www.askeet.ai/ Support email: [email protected] Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1438540885758443570/1438540942973079766 Slack: https://reach-technologies.slack.com/archives/C09S953P6MD

wp-admin forgets. OpenStation doesn’t. You know the moment. You’re deep in a post and you need one image from the Media Library. You click over, find it, click back, and everything you had going is gone. Your scroll position, your half-typed thought, the three other things you had queued up in your head. That’s not a bug you hit. That’s the design. wp-admin shows you one screen at a time, and every navigation throws the last one away. It has worked this way since 2003, like a fridge that empties itself every time you close the door. WordPress has rebuilt almost everything else. The editor, the site editor, the patterns, the styles. The admin’s one-screen-at-a-time model is the layer nobody touched. OpenStation touches it. Install it and admin screens become draggable, resizable windows. Edit a post while the Media Library sits open next to it. Drag an image from one window straight into the other. Keep comments open in the corner. Reload the browser and your window layout — open pages, positions, sizes, and window states — comes back where you left it. OpenStation itself is free, GPL, and opt-in per user. One click in the admin bar turns it on for you. One click turns it off. Nobody else on your site sees anything change, and deactivating the plugin restores the classic admin exactly. No Core patches and no lock-in. Optional AI providers may charge for their service. Built and maintained by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, and Tumblr. Work on more than one thing at once Admin pages open as windows, including pages added by most other plugins. Drag them, resize them, snap them, tile them, minimize them to a taskbar. The admin menu becomes a dock of icons. Two editors open at once is one click away. Never lose your place Moving between open windows leaves each page in place. Across reloads, OpenStation remembers your open pages, window positions, sizes and states, virtual desktops, and focus. Closing a window with unsaved changes warns you first. A desk you can actually put things on Drop posts, media, and links right onto the wallpaper. Sort them into folders. Trash them to a Trash that actually holds things. The stuff you’re working on this week can just sit out where you can see it. One desktop per job Virtual desktops, the way your operating system does them. One for writing. One for the store. One for comment triage. One for that redesign you keep poking at. Switch between them without closing anything. Find anything with Cmd+K The full WordPress command palette, plus slash commands from your plugins, all under one keystroke. Turn on the optional AI assistant and you can ask it things like “which post had the comment asking for the recipe?” and it searches your own content to answer. (Requires an AI provider configured in Settings → Connectors on WordPress 7.0+. Details under “External services” below.) See how your site fits together The Corkboard is an interactive, zoomable map of how your posts, pages, and products link to each other. Pan around it. Find the orphans. Find the hubs. Running a store? Orders, Products, Coupons, and Customers become browsable folders with stock and sale ribbons. Open a customer to see their lifetime spend and what they buy most. Follow a product to its buyers, or a coupon to who redeemed it. Make it yours Wallpapers, from color presets to animated scenes to your own photo. Live widgets pinned to the desktop: drafts, stats, recent comments, a focus timer. Uploadable desktop themes, including a built-in Legacy theme that brings the old WordPress blue back in one click. And Mio, a soft-body desk companion that drifts across your wallpaper and gets bumped around by your windows. Off by default. You’ll turn it on. For developers Extend OpenStation through documented PHP and JavaScript APIs. Register windows, icons, wallpapers, widgets, commands, and settings tabs through stable openstation_register_* PHP APIs and a typed JavaScript API; customize dock items through documented hooks; add AI tools with the WordPress Abilities API. Copy-paste examples live in the developer docs on GitHub. External services No external service is required for OpenStation’s desktop interface. The optional AI Assistant and two user-initiated enrichment features make the external requests described below. AI Assistant The optional AI Assistant sends data to the AI provider you configure in WordPress’s Settings → Connectors (for example OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). Generation is routed through WordPress 7.0’s built-in AI Client, which supplies the credentials stored in Connectors. The plugin never handles an API key itself. With no provider configured in Connectors, no external AI requests are made. When the AI Assistant is enabled and a user invokes it (via Cmd+K or the slash-command palette): What is sent: the user’s prompt, the conversation history for the active session, and tool-call metadata. The plugin’s built-in tools (search_posts, search_pages, search_comments) run WordPress’s native keyword search and may include excerpts of the matching posts/pages/comments in tool results, which are then sent back to the provider as part of the agentic loop. When it is sent: on user-initiated AI requests, and (if an administrator enables “Score new comments with AI”) on comment-save hooks for spam analysis. Posts, pages, and taxonomy terms are not sent automatically. Why it is sent: to obtain model completions and tool-call decisions that drive the AI Assistant. Who provides the service: whichever provider you configured in Settings → Connectors. Which provider (and endpoint) receives the data depends entirely on that configuration. Review the chosen provider’s own terms and privacy policy (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). URL shortcut favicons When an authorized user creates a desktop shortcut to an external URL, OpenStation asks that URL for its page HTML and favicon so the shortcut can display the site’s icon. The request is made from your WordPress server and sends the requested URL, the server’s IP address, an OpenStation user-agent string, and normal HTTP request metadata to the operator of that site. This happens only when a user creates the shortcut. The destination site’s terms and privacy policy apply. WordPress.org plugin information When an authorized user opens or refreshes parts of OpenStation’s Plugins window, OpenStation may request public plugin details, update metadata, and review excerpts from WordPress.org. These requests send plugin slugs, the site’s locale, and normal HTTP request metadata to WordPress.org. This information is used only to display and manage plugins. Review the WordPress.org Privacy Policy. OpenStation’s OAuth relay does not contact a service by itself. Third-party plugins that configure the relay may contact their own providers and are responsible for disclosing those services. Credits OpenStation is brought to you by Automattic. The plugin is open source under GPLv2-or-later; contributions are welcome on GitHub. Third-party libraries The plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript library, loaded on demand only when a feature that needs it is in use: PixiJS (MIT License) — used by the Corkboard window, built-in canvas wallpapers (e.g. the animated WordPress logo), the Mio desk companion, and the Inkfall typing game. PixiJS is loaded from the plugin’s own assets/vendor/ directory; no CDN requests are made. Data files The Inkfall game’s word list (assets/games/inkfall/words.txt) is generated from the following sources (attribution also ships in the file’s header): FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (CC-BY-SA 4.0) — English word-frequency ranking derived from the OpenSubtitles corpus. english-words by dwyl (Unlicense) — used as a validity filter. LDNOOBW English list (CC-BY 4.0) — used as an exclusion filter.