A first look at Gutenberg AI, the AI writing tools Ramsalt is building for Drupal
Most AI writing tools live in another browser tab. You copy text out, write a prompt, copy the answer back and fix the formatting. We wanted to get rid of that loop for people who write in Drupal. Gutenberg AI is the product we are building to fix that. It brings AI into the Gutenberg block editor, right next to the content it works on.
It is built on the Drupal AI framework, so it works with the chat provider you already use, whether that is OpenAI, Anthropic or a model running locally through Ollama. Everything it produces is standard Gutenberg blocks, so there is no lock-in.
A quick note before the tour: this is not a finished service yet. Gutenberg AI is under heavy development, features change from week to week and some of what you see here is still being tuned. We are sharing it now because we want to shape it together with the people who will use it. Here is a first look at what already works in our development builds.
In this post
- Better writing, right where you write
- An assistant that edits the page
- Use AI block or the sidebar assistant and build a section
- A proofreader that works while you type
- Editorial Desk
- Images and alt text
- Built for organizations that need control
- Help us shape it
Better writing, right where you write
Select a text block and the AI menu covers the everyday jobs: improve writing, summarize, expand, fix spelling and grammar, change the tone or translate. Highlight a single sentence and a small bar appears under it, so you can rewrite just that passage and keep or discard the result on the spot. Links and emphasis survive the round trip.
A few details we are especially happy with:
Tones that fit your audience
It comes with tones like Formal, Friendly and Plain language, and admins can swap them for the readers your site actually writes for, such as prospective students or the press.
Continue writing
Press Ctrl/Cmd+J and the next sentences appear as grey ghost text at your cursor. Tab accepts, Esc dismisses.
Paste cleanup
Paste from Word or Google Docs and Gutenberg AI offers to rebuild it as real headings, paragraphs and lists, keeping every sentence.
Your own actions
Found an instruction that works? Save it under your own name and reuse it from your AI menu.
Translation that respects all languages
Real time one paragraph or all the page translation, with image alt text as well.
Your edits win
Keep typing while the AI works and it will not overwrite you. The result is offered for review instead.
An assistant that edits the page, not just the chat
The AI Assistant sidebar is where Gutenberg AI goes beyond a single block. Ask it to “add a pricing section with three columns” or “remove the last paragraph” and it changes the page for you, using the blocks your site already has, including custom and third-party ones.
It can also do the heavy lifting on a blank page:
Draft from a brief
Paste your notes, approve an outline and the page is written section by section. Stop whenever you like.
Turn a PDF or Word file into a page
Drop in a document and get a structured page back, with the images from the PDF placed on the page.
Improve layout
Regroup existing content into sections, rows and columns using your theme's own colors and spacing, without touching the text or images.
Use your own site as a source
With the AI Agents module, ask it to “summarize our About page into this intro” and it looks up the real page and suggests internal links, limited to what you are allowed to see.
Every change is accountable. Applied changes are highlighted on the page, and each one has a before and after view and its own Revert button. Prefer to approve first? Turn on review mode and proposed edits show up as tracked changes, with added words in green and removed words in red, ready to accept or reject block by block.
Use AI block or the sidebar assistant and build a section
Sometimes you just need a chunk of content with a specific layout. Use the AI block within the editor or the right sidebar AI assistant, describe what you want and watch it stream in as standard Gutenberg blocks: columns, groups, buttons and tables. Maybe use some of your custom blocks too? One-click presets cover pricing tables, FAQs, calls to action and a lot more.
A proofreader that works while you type
Content clarity checks run live in the browser, with no AI call and no cost. Colored underlines flag long sentences, repeated words, your site's banned terms, vague link text like “click here” (Norwegian phrases included), images without alt text and skipped heading levels. Hedging words, complex words and passive voice are checked in both English and Norwegian, and adverbs in English. Most issues come with a one-click fix.
A live LIX readability score works well for Norwegian, and each content type can have its own target. The score turns red when a draft goes over it. When you want a deeper review, one click checks the whole draft against your own style guide and terminology and underlines the exact phrases that break a rule.
Editorial Desk: a second pair of eyes before you publish
For newsrooms and communication teams, the Editorial Desk adds a review layer powered by TypeSafe. It reviews the draft as you write and checks claims against your reference notes, marking each one as supported, contradicted or unverified. It also flags headlines that overpromise or miss the story, checks the text against up to five editorial policies and scores how well it serves different types of readers.
Any finding can be shown in the draft or handed to the assistant for a proposed fix. Full transparency is built in: you see which model ran each check, how confident it was and what it cost. The Editorial Desk requires a TypeSafe subscription.
Images and alt text
Generate an image straight from an empty Image block and keep writing while it works in the background. It is saved to the media library with the prompt as starting alt text. For existing images, a vision model writes the missing alt text, one image at a time or in bulk from a dedicated screen, and a Drush command handles large sites.
Built for organizations that need control
AI in a CMS has to answer to more than the editor, so we are building the controls in from the start:
Privacy limits
Decide the most the assistant may send: the full document, the structure only, the selection, or nothing at all. Editors can narrow it further, and an optional preview shows exactly what leaves the site.
Budgets and usage
A dashboard shows requests, tokens, latency and cost by provider and model. Monthly budgets per role and per operation stop requests before they reach the provider.
Your style everywhere
The site's style guide and terminology apply to every action, the assistant and every review.
Safe output
Broken or unsafe AI output, including unsafe markup and links, is rejected before it touches the page.
Fine-grained settings
Each action can be switched on or off and given its own model and prompt, with separate permissions for text actions, the assistant, images and the Editorial Desk.
Help us shape it: we are looking for testers
The best way to make Gutenberg AI good is to put it in front of real editors early. We are looking for a small group of organizations that want to test it on their own content and in their own workflows.
What you get
As a tester you get early access and a direct line to the people building it, and your feedback goes straight into what we build next.
What we ask
In return we ask for honest feedback on what works, what does not and what is missing.
It is a good fit if you run Drupal with the Gutenberg editor, or are open to trying it, and your editors publish regularly. Universities, the public sector and newsrooms are especially welcome, and so are sites that publish in Norwegian.
Contact us at Ramsalt and mention “Gutenberg AI testing” in your message. Tell us a little about your site and your editors, and we will set up a meeting to walk you through it and see if it is a good match.
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