AI Copilot — Overview & Setup
AI Copilot is built directly into Genzbots Studio. It generates complete workflows from natural language, answers questions about activities, analyses errors, and integrates with voice input — all without leaving the designer.
What Copilot Can Do
- Generate workflows — describe a task in plain text; get a fully-configured activity sequence inserted on the canvas
- Answer questions — ask about any activity, parameter, or best practice
- Analyse errors — paste an error message and get a diagnosis with a fix suggestion
- Improve existing workflows — select activities and ask for refactoring, error handling, or optimisation
- Voice input — dictate the next step aloud and have it generated hands-free (requires Azure Speech key)
AI Provider Priority
Copilot routes your request through three tiers in order:
| Priority | Provider | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | AI Backend (FastAPI server) | Full workflow generation — multilingual, all activity types |
| 2nd | Template Engine (offline) | Common English workflow patterns — works without any API key or network |
| 3rd | Azure OpenAI (cloud) | Conversational answers and explanations — does NOT generate workflow JSON |
Azure OpenAI limitationAzure OpenAI is conversational only. If you ask it to "generate a workflow" and the backend and templates both fail to match, it will return a text explanation instead of an executable workflow. For reliable generation, configure the AI Backend URL.
Setup
- Go to Settings → AI Configuration
- For the AI Backend: set AI Backend URL (e.g.,
http://localhost:8000) - For Azure OpenAI: set Endpoint, API Key, and Model (deployment name)
- For Voice: set Azure Speech Key and Region
Accessing Copilot
- Home Screen → AI Chat — full Copilot panel with conversation history
- Designer → Copilot Panel — always-visible right sidebar
- Alt+A — talk to AI (opens chat and focuses input)
- Alt+D — dictate next step (starts voice recording)