Story: Exponential Intelligence
This page is for journalists and creators who cover AI in content management. Exponential Intelligence is easy to describe wrongly; this page gives the exact wording of the sources, the dates and the claims you must not make. The next story, an assistant that writes drafts only, takes one angle further.
Contents
- The story in one paragraph
- What is new, and when
- Facts you can print
- What not to claim
- Angles and headline ideas
- Who to ask
- Related pages
The story in one paragraph
"Exponential Intelligence is a writing assistant built into the administration interface. Editors ask in plain
language for new content or for changes", and the assistant "writes drafts, as the signed-in editor and with that
editor's own permissions" (README, Exponential Intelligence). It
works with hosted providers in the US or the EU, or with a local open-weight model on the same server; it records every
request in the audit trail without the prompt or the answer; and it shows the model, region and cost of each click.
It is the extension se7enxweb/expai, required by the kernel from the 6.0.15 line on
(expai feature page).
What is new, and when
| What | When | Source |
|---|---|---|
The repository expai is created | 11 October 2026 | Who is 7x?, timeline |
| Read services as tools of the assistant | 11 October 2026 | 6.0.15 changelog |
composer.json requires se7enxweb/expai; the job queue expqueue too | 12 October 2026 | 6.0.15 changelog |
| First release of the extension, 0.0.1.0 | the sources give no date | expai, In short |
The 6.0.15 line is the current release line of Exponential 6.0; the dates are dates of the changes, not a release date.
Facts you can print
| Fact | Source |
|---|---|
| It writes drafts and never publishes on its own. | expai, In short |
| It works as the signed-in editor, with that editor's permissions. | same |
| Providers: Anthropic, any OpenAI-compatible service (Melious.ai in the EU, Hugging Face, OpenRouter, Mistral and others), or a local model through Ollama. | same |
Each provider states a region (us, eu, local) and a retention; rules per section and class decide which content may go where. | expai, For administrators |
| Prompts, answers and keys are never recorded in the audit trail. | same |
| Usage limits per user, day, month, site and provider, and budgets for queued work. | same |
| "EI: Summary" is one printable page for a data protection officer. | same |
| It can suggest alternative text for images and report images that lack it. | expai, For editors |
| On a new installation it is active for the administration, but "Without a key it stays idle and sends nothing." | README, How to enable it |
| On an upgraded installation it arrives inactive until an administrator activates it. | 6.0.15 changelog |
What not to claim
- "The AI publishes content" or "AI writes your website". It writes drafts; people publish.
- "It is GDPR compliant" or any legal compliance. That depends on the provider, the region and the organization.
- "It is free." The software is free; a hosted provider may charge for use.
- "Exponential AI" or "ExpAI". The name is Exponential Intelligence;
expaiin technical text (Naming rules quick card). - Which provider is "best", or anything about model quality: the sources do not compare them.
- Adoption figures: the sources do not say how many sites use it.
Angles and headline ideas
- Choice of jurisdiction: the US, the EU or your own server, decided per provider.
- Accountability: every request audited, but never the text itself.
- Accessibility: alternative text suggestions for images.
"An AI assistant that asks where your data may go"
"Exponential Intelligence: drafts from the US, the EU or your own server"
"Every request logged, no prompt stored: how Exponential audits its AI"Who to ask
| Question | Ask | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Design decisions, data policy, a demonstration | 7x | [email protected], or https://exponential.earth/about/contact-us |
| The documentation of the extension | its repository | https://github.com/se7enxweb/expai |
| Provider prices and terms | the provider itself | its own website |
Related pages
- Talking points: Exponential Intelligence
- Objection: "What about the AI features?"
- Story: an assistant that writes drafts only
- Feature stories: index
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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