Rankwell AI — Journalism Assistant

Description

Rankwell AI is a professional-grade AI writing assistant purpose-built for journalists, editors, and newsrooms. It integrates directly into the WordPress editor, putting powerful AI tools exactly where you write.

Multi-Provider AI Engine

Choose from six leading AI providers — Google AI (Gemini), DeepSeek, ChatGPT (OpenAI), Groq, Mistral AI, and OpenRouter — with automatic failover. If your primary provider is unavailable, Rankwell AI seamlessly switches to your backup. Free providers are prioritized first to minimize costs.

Six Powerful Actions

Rewrite

Improve clarity, flow, and journalistic style while preserving all facts, names, dates, quotes, and attributions exactly. HTML formatting, links, and embeds are fully preserved.

Fix Grammar

Correct only spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors without changing your wording, tone, or sentence structure. Surgical precision editing.

Improve Readability

Break up long paragraphs, simplify complex sentences, and vary sentence length for better flow — all without shortening your content.

Write Article

Generate comprehensive, publication-ready articles from a topic or source material. Uses accurate general knowledge for evergreen content while maintaining strict factual guardrails for news reporting.

SEO Optimize

Naturally weave keywords into your content without changing tone, style, or structure. Includes optional SEO titles, URL slugs, and keyword suggestions.

Chat with AI

Interactive chat with headline analysis, title optimization, A/B testing, and audience matching. Includes a full headline scorecard system with clickability, clarity, and mobile-friendliness ratings.

Journalistic Standards

Built from the ground up for newsroom workflows:

• AP Style support — Strict AP Style rules for numerals, abbreviations, titles, and punctuation
• Attribution rules — Automatic self-attribution for original reporting
• Factual guardrails — Never invents facts, names, dates, statistics, or quotes
• Active voice enforcement — Prioritizes subject-verb-object sentence structure
• Inverted pyramid — Most newsworthy information first
• E-E-A-T compliance — Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness
• Smart heading limits — H2/H3 rules based on word count to prevent AI-looking fragmentation

Eight Professional Tones

Professional, Casual, AP Style (News), British Style (UK), Editorial/Opinion, Breaking News, Feature Story, and Interview/Q&A.

Five Writing Styles

Inverted Pyramid, Narrative, Explainer, Listicle, and Live Blog.

Editor Integration

Works in both the Gutenberg Block Editor and the Classic Editor (TinyMCE). A single click from your editor toolbar opens the AI Assistant popup. Highlight text and the popup grabs it automatically — Replace swaps your selection, Insert Below adds after it.

Developer Friendly

• Clean, namespaced PHP 8.0+ code following WordPress coding standards
• All strings are internationalization-ready
• Extensible with action and filter hooks
• Dark mode support for the editor popup
• No jQuery dependency — vanilla JavaScript

External Services

This plugin connects to multiple third-party AI service providers to process your content. When you use any AI feature, the content you’re working with is sent to your selected AI provider’s API for processing. Each service requires its own API key that you must obtain separately. API calls are made server-side over encrypted HTTPS connections, and no content is stored by the plugin itself beyond what the AI provider requires for processing your request.

Google AI (Gemini)

• Service: AI text generation using Google’s Gemini language models
• What it does: Processes your content for rewriting, grammar correction, readability improvement, article writing, SEO optimization, and chat features
• Data sent: Your content text, selected action parameters, tone/style preferences, and API key
• When: When Google AI is selected as your AI provider and you use any AI feature
• Terms of Service: https://ai.google.dev/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

DeepSeek

• Service: AI text generation using DeepSeek’s language models
• What it does: Processes your content for rewriting, grammar correction, readability improvement, article writing, SEO optimization, and chat features
• Data sent: Your content text, selected action parameters, tone/style preferences, and API key
• When: When DeepSeek is selected as your AI provider and you use any AI feature
• Terms of Service: https://platform.deepseek.com/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://platform.deepseek.com/privacy

ChatGPT (OpenAI)

• Service: AI text generation using OpenAI’s GPT language models
• What it does: Processes your content for rewriting, grammar correction, readability improvement, article writing, SEO optimization, and chat features
• Data sent: Your content text, selected action parameters, tone/style preferences, and API key
• When: When ChatGPT (OpenAI) is selected as your AI provider and you use any AI feature
• Terms of Service: https://openai.com/terms/
• Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/privacy/

Groq

• Service: AI text generation using Groq’s fast inference platform
• What it does: Processes your content for rewriting, grammar correction, readability improvement, article writing, SEO optimization, and chat features
• Data sent: Your content text, selected action parameters, tone/style preferences, and API key
• When: When Groq is selected as your AI provider and you use any AI feature
• Terms of Service: https://groq.com/terms-of-service/
• Privacy Policy: https://groq.com/privacy-policy/

Mistral AI

• Service: AI text generation using Mistral’s language models
• What it does: Processes your content for rewriting, grammar correction, readability improvement, article writing, SEO optimization, and chat features
• Data sent: Your content text, selected action parameters, tone/style preferences, and API key
• When: When Mistral AI is selected as your AI provider and you use any AI feature
• Terms of Service: https://mistral.ai/terms/
• Privacy Policy: https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/privacy-policy

OpenRouter

• Service: AI model aggregator service providing access to multiple AI models
• What it does: Processes your content through various AI models for rewriting, grammar correction, readability improvement, article writing, SEO optimization, and chat features
• Data sent: Your content text, selected action parameters, tone/style preferences, API key, and your site URL
• When: When OpenRouter is selected as your AI provider and you use any AI feature
• Terms of Service: https://openrouter.ai/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://openrouter.ai/privacy

Important Notes:

• Your API keys are stored securely in your WordPress database and are only sent to the respective provider’s API for authentication
• All data transmission occurs over encrypted HTTPS connections
• No content is stored on external servers beyond what the AI provider requires for processing your request
• You are responsible for reviewing and accepting each provider’s terms of service and privacy policy before using their service

Donations

If you find Rankwell AI useful for your newsroom, please consider making a donation to support ongoing development and maintenance of this free plugin.

Credits

Developed by Omajemite Don Ejes Gist for newsrooms that demand accuracy, attribution, and editorial standards in AI-assisted writing.

Built with journalistic integrity. Powered by your choice of AI.