The floating AI assistant: quick answers and voice commands on any page (Ctrl+J)

You don't have to leave what you're doing to ask the AI a question. Press Ctrl+J (or Cmd+J on Mac) on any page in KM Hub and a slide-in assistant panel appears, ready for a quick question, a voice command, or even an instruction to tidy up your navigation.

Open the assistant

There are two ways to open the floating assistant from anywhere in the app:

• Press Ctrl+J (Windows) or Cmd+J (Mac).
• Click the AI opener button in the top bar.

The panel slides in over your current page. When you're done, use the close button and you're right back where you were.

Start with a suggested prompt

The panel opens with four suggested prompt chips so you can get an answer with one click:

• Upcoming events this week
• Show overdue payments
• Summarize client activity
• Draft a contract email

Click any chip and the assistant runs it immediately.

Ask anything

Below the chips is an "Ask anything..." input. Type your question and send it. Your question goes to the same AI backend that powers the full AI Chat page, with one useful extra: the assistant knows which page you're on, so it can use that context in its answer.

Talk instead of type

Next to the input is a mic button for voice input. Here's how it works:

1. Click the mic button. The panel shows "Listening... speak now".
2. Say your question out loud.
3. Your speech is converted to text and sent as your message.

This is handy when you're between tasks, setting up for an event, or just faster out loud than on the keyboard.

Control the app with plain language

The floating assistant also understands a small set of natural-language UI commands that adjust your navigation directly:

• "hide <item>": hides a navigation item you don't use.
• "show <item>": brings a hidden item back.
• "reset sidebar": restores the navigation to its default layout.

For example, typing "hide equipment" removes that item from your sidebar, and "reset sidebar" undoes all your customizations in one go.

Floating assistant vs. the full AI Chat page

Think of the floating panel as the quick-access version: fast questions, voice input, and UI commands without leaving your current page. For longer working sessions with your AI officers - the Second-in-Command, Sales Director, CMO, and Strategy Coach - head to the full AI Chat page at https://hub.kivimedia.co/?page=ai-chat, where you get the officer picker, tool-use trace rows, and persistent conversations.

Still stuck? Submit a ticket from this help center and we'll take it from there.