Ask Steve

Unlike AI assistants that operate in separate chat windows, Ask Steve works directly on any page users are already viewing, providing context-aware assistance without requiring them to leave their current task.

The extension's core feature is 1-click AI assistance on any web page: users can highlight text, interact with page content, and ask AI questions about what they're looking at without copying and pasting into a separate tool.

It can read entire pages, selected text, or tab groups simultaneously, synthesizing information from multiple open tabs at once a capability that dramatically accelerates research, competitive analysis, and information gathering tasks that typically require juggling many browser tabs manually.

Inbox productivity is a standout application: Ask Steve integrates directly with email interfaces to help draft AI-generated replies in the user's personal tone and style, generate customized thread summaries, label and archive emails, and create calendar events from emails with a single click.

The AI learns writing patterns to ensure generated content sounds authentically like the user rather than generic AI output.

Data extraction and visualization capabilities make Ask Steve useful for business intelligence workflows: users can extract structured data from web pages, ask the AI to chart or visualize any data it encounters, and build extraction pipelines that run across multiple pages.

The platform also supports connecting to any LLM both public models like GPT-4 and Claude, and private or enterprise-hosted models giving organizations control over which AI infrastructure processes their data.