Rooster One vs Savanto – AI Search & Chat

One plugin instead of dozens. 554 tools, and they agree with each other. Rooster One does the work that would otherwise take dozens of separate plugins, and it does it from one place, on one set of numbers. Dozens of plugins means dozens of different vendors, dozens of renewal dates to keep track of, dozens of update cycles that have to keep working alongside each other, and a different support desk to write to depending on which part has gone wrong. One plugin means one licence, one update, one place to ask, and one thing for WordPress to load on every request instead of dozens. What is actually in it: a full SEO engine that replaces Yoast or AIOSEO. Product recommendations built from your real sales. Role, wholesale and tiered pricing. Meta, Google Ads, GA4 and TikTok measurement, sent server-side so an ad blocker cannot silence it. Sixteen couriers with vouchers, labels, tracking and daily closings. Marketplace feeds and order import for Skroutz, Shopflix, eMAG, Etsy, Amazon and more. Side cart, wishlist, back-in-stock waitlist, quote requests for catalogue shops, swatches, trust badges. Popups and scheduled announcements. Abandoned-cart recovery, email and web push campaigns, audiences. Surveys, competitions and events. Invoices, packing slips and credit notes. A GDPR consent banner with a cookie scanner. The EU withdrawal button that Directive 2023/2673 now requires. And an AI assistant that answers from your own catalogue rather than making things up. That is 188 pages and the 554 tools inside them, and there is a written description of what every one of them is for. Why one plugin rather than dozens Because separate plugins cannot see what the others know, so they disagree, and each one works the same thing out again while your customer waits. Rooster One measures your whole business on a schedule instead: every product, page, customer, order and session, written into flat tables. Which products sell and which never do, which pages are read, who bought and who nearly did. The SEO engine, the recommendations, the audiences, the ad ROI report and the AI assistant then all read those same tables. That is why they agree, and why the plugin gets faster to use as you switch more of it on: the heavy work already happened, before the request arrived. The trade-off is timing and we would rather say so plainly. A figure is only as new as its last run. And it is one plugin to load, not dozens This part has nothing to do with how well any plugin is written. WordPress loads every active plugin on every request, before it knows whether that request needs it: a file to read from disk, hooks to register, options to fetch, a translation catalogue to load. That toll is paid on the home page, on every admin screen and on every REST call, by every plugin, including the ones that will do nothing at all on that particular request. A site carrying a hundred of them pays it a hundred times before a single line of useful work happens. Rooster One is one plugin, and the parts you have not switched on register nothing. On Pro, the storefront is served by a separate lightweight runtime rather than the admin half, so your customer’s page load carries the code that draws the page and not the code that runs the shop. Everything is off by default. It installs beside your current SEO plugin, pixel manager and consent tool and changes nothing until you switch a piece on. Rooster One runs on your own server. Everything it ever sends to an outside service, and what triggers it, is listed under “What does Rooster One send to an outside service, and when?” in the FAQ below. The free version is a complete product, not a demo: 754 of the 1,268 screens, tools and actions are in it. Pro adds the operational half and the separate front-end runtime plugin. Who builds it Rooster One is built by Oxford Metadata Ltd, whose organisation is approved under Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program for dual-use security work such as penetration testing and vulnerability research. That is the same discipline the plugin’s own defensive features come out of: the bot filtering, the form captcha, the consent and proof-of-consent log, and the login hardening. The AI features run on Anthropic Claude for chat and reasoning and Voyage AI for embeddings. It reads your site for what it is Shop — sales and add-to-carts are the measure. Catalogue — products published but not sold; engagement is the measure. Content — no WooCommerce; visits, engagement and forms are the measure. Auto-detected, overridable in one click. Scoring, cornerstones and applicable signals all follow from it. You can find all of it Ctrl+K reaches 742 places: 188 pages and the 554 tools inside them, each one openable directly. All Features lists every one, with pinnable favourites, and prints the figure for your own install. Every page carries a written description of what you can do there, and that text feeds the search. What gets measured Computed on a schedule, stored flat. Everything below reads these. Product vitals — velocity, out-of-stock history, price history, basket role, returns, and a 0–100 demand score. Content vitals — reach, engagement, freshness and a content-demand score for every post, page and custom type. Customer vitals — an omnichannel profile: purchases, affinities, lifecycle stage, survey answers, return risk. Session and attribution rollups — engagement joined to conversion on one session id, with landing page, campaign and five UTMs. Effective prices — every price rule resolved ahead of time into one row per product per audience. The features AI chat & semantic search Chat widget on Anthropic Claude, grounded in your catalogue — only real, in-stock items with exact links. Semantic search on Voyage AI embeddings across products, posts, pages and terms. A knowledge base you control, with identity guardrails so it cannot mis-describe you. Chat analytics — what was asked, how it was rated, which questions found nothing, which chats ended in an order. Related content on articles, guides, listings and products, from the same index. Added automatically to the content types you choose, or placed by hand with the AIEO Related content block or the [aieo_semantic_related] shortcode; either can be narrowed to one kind of content, so a listing recommends listings rather than products. SEO engine A drop-in replacement for AIOSEO, Yoast or Rank Math. Stays gated behind your current SEO plugin until you switch over; a read-only importer for all three and a head-parity check are included. Head, canonical, robots, Open Graph, Twitter and JSON-LD, assembled once into a cache. Commerce schema from the same tables — ProductGroup + hasVariant, per-variant colour, gtin, brand, shipping and return policy. AI titles and descriptions written against the live SERP. Drafts await approval, or run on Autopilot. Opportunity grid — traffic × conversion: hidden gem, intent mismatch, defend, prune. Rank tracking (optional DataForSEO, under your spend cap). Redirects and 404s, slug monitor, static sitemap, robots.txt, alt-text filling, EU Omnibus history, hreflang, Local SEO. Selling more Recommendations — up-sell, cross-sell and same-need alternatives from your real sales patterns. Rails you order by drag-and-drop, block and classic themes, with custom slots. Pricing engine — role and wholesale prices, brand discounts, loyalty tiers, points, free gifts. Stacked, resolved ahead of time. Merchandising — swatches, labels, trust badges, payment logos, galleries, layout builder, custom tabs, one master button style. Lift measurement — the incremental orders and revenue the engine adds. Cart, checkout, recovery Side cart, sticky add-to-cart, wishlist, back-in-stock waitlist. Quote requests for catalogue shops — an ask-for-a-price card on products you do not sell online, a quote basket the shopper grows as they browse, and the browsing trail behind each request. Booked as valued leads per campaign, so a catalogue stops scoring EUR 0.00. Saved and abandoned carts — share and resume, cookieless restore that survives CDN caching. Checkout tuning — distraction-free checkout with A/B assignment, minimum order, and business-invoice fields. Full block and classic parity. Reaching customers Audiences — top, lapsed, lookalike, abandoned-cart, reactivation, competition entrants. Recomputed nightly. Automated campaigns — abandoned cart, win-back, birthday, back in stock, post-purchase. Email and web push, quiet hours honoured. Social posts from your catalogue, competitions on any Gravity Form, surveys scored into NPS and voice-of-customer. Knowing what worked Server-side measurement you own — Meta CAPI, GA4, Google Ads Enhanced Conversions, TikTok Events API. Deduplicated, sent after the order is saved, with a daily safety net. Consent / GDPR CMP — first-party banner, Consent Mode v2, proof-of-consent log, cookie scanner. ROI Wizard — orders, revenue, cost, net, ROAS and ROI by engine, offer, channel, campaign or creative. Ad spend typed, by CSV, or nightly from Google Ads / Meta / TikTok. Conversion goals for non-shops. Insights Chat — ask your shop questions in wp-admin. Customers pseudonymised, no data export. Running the shop Marketplace order import — Skroutz, Shopflix, eMAG, eFood, Wolt, Etsy, Amazon → native WooCommerce orders. The catalogue importer runs it in reverse. Streaming feeds — ready-made templates for Amazon Inventory Loader, BestPrice, eBay File Exchange, eFood, EMAG, Etsy, Facebook Product Catalog, Facebook Marketplace, Google Shopping, Google Local, Google AdWords Custom Remarketing, Shopflix, Skroutz, Tolstoy and Wolt, plus Generic CSV and a fully custom builder. Sixteen couriers — vouchers, labels, COD, tracking, bulk printing, daily closings. ACS, BOX NOW, Courier Center, ELTA, Geniki Taxydromiki, Speedex, DHL Express, FedEx, UPS, USPS, Royal Mail, DHL Paket, Colissimo, BRT, Correos Express, Sendcloud — plus a manual carrier for one with no API. Order documents — invoices, packing slips, proformas, credit notes. Singly or merged across a date range. Delivery economics — real break-even free shipping from your carrier costs, per-carrier × zone P&L. Operational intelligence — stock recovery, missing hot sellers, out-of-stock predictor, branch stock, barcode scanning, optional ERP. The withdrawal button — Directive (EU) 2023/2673 Every EU distance seller must now give consumers a prominent, permanently available button to declare withdrawal electronically. No transition period. A real button, for the whole statutory period. 14 calendar days from receipt — computed from delivery, not the order date. Guests included. An account is offered afterwards, never required. No reason, no prior contact, partial withdrawal by item and quantity. Acknowledgement on a durable medium with content, date and time. Cancellation stays distinct from withdrawal — one you may refuse, the other you may not. Return vouchers checked by an operator before the customer sees them. Ships disabled. Content, blocks and regional selling Events with RSVP and self-registration, FAQ accordions, Store Pages, Food & Beverages option groups, Google reviews, Media Cleanup that quarantines before it deletes. Dozens of server-rendered blocks — store, product, recommendation, swatch, brand, category, blog, competition and event, plus Custom Slot regions. Regional checkout — COD by country or courier, “from X,XX €” labels before a postcode is entered, and per-country payment and shipping rules. Speed and resilience Pre-computed into flat tables; the storefront reads single cached rows. A thin front-end runtime plugin (Pro) serves the storefront even when the admin plugin is trimmed from the request. Self-healing jobs re-arm after updates, stay dormant until used, and collapse runaway third-party tasks. Tables are never dropped on update, activation or deactivation — only on explicit uninstall. Free and Pro GPLv3. The free version is a complete, working product — not a demo with the useful parts removed. GPLv3 throughout. There are three separate things here, and it is worth being precise about which is which, because two of them are called “Pro”. 1. This plugin, free. A complete, working product, not a demo with the useful parts removed: AI chat and semantic search, the whole SEO engine, pricing and merchandising, storefront features, measurement and consent, product feeds and marketplace feed export, courier fulfilment across all sixteen carriers, the block library, Ctrl+K — and the complete withdrawal button. That last is a legal obligation for every EU distance seller; charging for it would be a poor thing to do. 2. A Pro subscription (or the 14-day trial), activated by connecting the site to your Rooster One account. No per-feature keys. It unlocks the Pro screens whose code is already inside this download: Marketplace order import — Skroutz, Shopflix, eMAG, eFood, Wolt, Etsy, Amazon. Attribution and ROI — dashboard, ROI Wizard, ad-spend connectors, shipping cost against margin. Audiences and campaigns — audience builder, email and web-push flows, social posts, AI-suggested offers. Customer intelligence — customer lookup, surveys, cancellations and returns analysis, chat analytics. Insights Chat, events and competitions, Action Scheduler cleanup. 3. Two companion plugins, included with a Pro subscription and installed separately. A subscription on its own does not put their code on your server, so these screens ask you to install the plugin rather than pretending to work: Rooster One Runtime — serves the storefront, SEO head, sitemap and redirects without loading the admin half. The biggest single speed difference between free and Pro. Rooster One Pro — carries six engines this download does not contain: supplier invoice scanning, the accounting and ERP connectors (Entersoft, Galaxy, Soft1, Zoho Books, and Oxygen supplier sync), the catalogue importer for building a product source from a supplier feed, the product exchanger for sharing content between WP sites, the duplicate-product merge engine that auto detects simple products and converts them to variations, and semantic internal linking. Everything Pro-locked stays visible with an explanation of what it does, and where a screen also needs the Pro plugin it says so before you buy, not after. Optional integrations Rooster One runs entirely on your own server. Nothing below is required for the plugin to work — each is an opt-in add-on you enable only if you want that capability, using your own account. Rooster AI credits (rooster.systems) — powers the AI chat, AI SEO copy and Insights Chat via Anthropic Claude and Voyage AI embeddings, with no per-provider API keys to manage. Recommendations service (eshop-optimizer.com) — graph-database up-sell/cross-sell analysis of your order history. DataForSEO — optional keyword rank tracking under a spend cap you set. Ad and measurement platforms — Google Ads, GA4, Meta and TikTok, each independently selectable. Couriers and marketplaces — your own carrier and marketplace accounts, for vouchers and order import. Google Places / Search Console for location data and search performance.

A visitor searches your site for “comfortable shoes for hiking” and gets nothing back. WordPress search matches words, not meaning, so anything phrased differently to your product titles returns an empty page. Savanto replaces that search. It understands what people are asking for, adds a chat assistant that answers from your own content, and suggests related products. You do not need an OpenAI account, an API key, or any technical setup. Install the plugin, activate it, and click Connect to Savanto. You sign in or create a free account, approve the connection, and your site is live. There is no key to copy. Savanto runs the AI on its own servers, so you never manage tokens, usage limits, or billing with OpenAI, Anthropic, or anyone else. How Savanto Differs From Other AI Plugins Most WordPress AI plugins are toolkits. They connect your site to an external AI provider, but you bring your own API key, configure embeddings, choose models, and build the experience yourself. That suits developers. It does not suit a store owner who wants better search. Savanto is a finished product rather than a toolkit. There is no API key from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google to supply, no third-party AI account to manage, no vector database to stand up, and no prompts or models to choose. Everything runs on Savanto’s own infrastructure, so there are no usage bills arriving from providers you did not sign up with. Savanto uses different models for different jobs, each chosen and tuned for the task: ranking search results, holding a conversation, matching products. You get that work without configuring any of it. Other AI plugins need your own keys and some developer knowledge before they do anything. Some support platforms sell AI as an add-on from around $29 a month. Savanto gives you search and chat on a free plan that does not expire, with nothing else to set up. Paid plans start at $9 a month when you need higher limits. Semantic Search Replaces WordPress search with search that reads intent. Someone types “something warm but not too bulky” or “gifts under $50 for someone who likes cooking” and gets sensible results. Typos, vague descriptions and full questions all work without tuning. Chat Assistant An assistant on your site that answers questions from the content you have synced, suggests products, and points people to the right page. It works from your own material, so it is not guessing at what you sell. Recommendations Suggestions drawn from what a visitor is actually looking for, rather than from cookies or browsing history. Related products, posts and pages that a category-based list would have missed. Live Agent Handoff The assistant recognises a question it should not answer alone and hands the visitor to your support team, so nobody reaches a dead end. Automatic Sync Publish a page, product or post and Savanto picks it up. Nothing to re-index by hand, and search results stay current as your content changes. Built for WooCommerce Savanto reads your whole catalogue: titles, descriptions, prices, categories and custom fields. Visitors search in their own words and still find the right product, which means fewer searches that end in nothing. Privacy Savanto indexes only publicly available content. It does not touch private posts, drafts, user accounts or personal data. Performance Search runs on Savanto’s infrastructure with global edge delivery, so it adds no load to your WordPress hosting. Responses typically return in under 100ms. Enterprise plans include a contractual uptime SLA with service credits. Compatible With WordPress WooCommerce Elementor Gutenberg Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Developer API available at savanto.ai/docs/api for custom integrations. Getting Started Install the plugin, activate it, and click Connect to Savanto. You are live once you have signed in and approved the connection, and Savanto begins indexing your content. Most sites are fully searchable within minutes. Guides for installation, search, chat, recommendations and troubleshooting are at savanto.ai/docs/wordpress. The free plan needs no credit card and does not expire. Paid plans start at $9 a month. Use of Third Party Services This plugin connects to Savanto’s servers to provide its search and chat features. When activated, your publicly available site content (pages, posts, and products) is sent to Savanto’s servers for indexing and processing. Savanto – Terms of Service | Privacy Policy No data is shared with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or any other third party AI provider. All AI processing is handled through Savanto’s own infrastructure. Privacy This plugin connects to the Savanto cloud service (savanto.ai) to provide its search and chat features. Data Sent to Savanto When you connect and sync content, the following data is transmitted to Savanto servers: Post and page content (title, body, excerpt, permalink) Product information for WooCommerce (name, description, price, SKU, categories, images) Taxonomy terms (categories, tags, product attributes) Post meta that is marked as public Data NOT Collected User personal information (emails, names, addresses) Order details or customer data Passwords or authentication credentials Private or draft content (only published content is synced) Comments or user-generated content Chat Widget The chat widget loads from Savanto’s CDN (cdn.savanto.ai). When visitors use the chat: Their questions are processed by Savanto’s AI No personally identifiable information is collected Chat conversations are not stored unless you enable analytics in your dashboard MCP Server (WooCommerce) If you enable the MCP Orders domain for WooCommerce: Order lookups are performed locally on your WordPress server Order data stays on your server and is not sent to Savanto The Savanto cloud only routes requests to your server How Order Lookups Work: When a customer asks about their orders through the chat: The question is analyzed by Savanto’s AI in the cloud If it’s an order question, Savanto sends a request back to YOUR WordPress site Your WordPress plugin looks up the order using WooCommerce Only the relevant order summary is returned to complete the AI response The full order database is never accessed by or copied to Savanto servers. Data Retention Synced content remains in Savanto’s cloud until you disconnect or delete it Disconnecting removes all your indexed content from Savanto servers You can request complete data deletion by contacting [email protected] External Service This plugin connects to the Savanto cloud service to provide its search and chat features. The plugin and cloud service are developed by the same team. By using this plugin, you agree to Savanto’s: Terms of Service Privacy Policy GDPR Compliance Savanto is designed with privacy in mind. Since no personal user data is collected or transmitted, standard GDPR consent mechanisms for visitor data are not required. However, you should update your site’s privacy policy to disclose that content is processed by a third-party AI service.