For streamers: let your Discord answer “is there a stream tonight?”

Every creator's Discord gets the same handful of questions. Is there a stream tonight? What does a sub get me? When is the merch drop? Can I post my clips here? You answer them in chat, your mods answer them in Discord, and the next person asks again an hour later.

Ascend AI is a Discord bot that answers those questions from what you've already written: your schedule, your perks, your rules. It runs in the channels you pick, while you're streaming, and hands anything it can't answer to your mods. Here is how a creator sets it up, using an invented one as the example.

What does it look like in a creator's server?

Say a streamer called Juniper runs a server called Lantern Room. She streams three evenings a week, has a sub tier with emotes and a members-only channel, sells a hoodie twice a year, and has rules about spoilers and self-promotion. A member types in #ask-anything:

Nothing in that answer came from the model's general knowledge. It came from a schedule document Juniper wrote and from the #schedule channel, which the bot reads. If she hadn't written it down, the bot would have said it didn't know and pointed the member to her mods.

What should a streamer put in the knowledge base?

Write one short document per topic. The bot looks up the passages that match each question, so focused documents give sharper answers. For most creators that means:

• Schedule: the usual days and times, the time zone, and where changes are posted.
• Subs and perks: what each tier gets, how to link a Twitch or YouTube account if your server uses roles for that, and who to ask when a role is missing.
• Merch: what's on sale, where to buy it, and when the next drop is, if you know.
• Rules: spoilers, self-promotion, clips, fan art.
• Collabs and business: where sponsors and other creators should get in touch, so those requests stop landing in #general.

How does it keep up when the schedule changes?

This is where most pinned FAQs fail: the schedule changes and the pin doesn't. Two features handle it.

• Reference channels. Add #schedule (and #announcements, if you like) as a reference channel on Knowledge base. The bot reads their topic, pins and recent messages, refreshed every few minutes. Post "no stream Friday, back Saturday" there as you normally would, and the bot answers from it.
• Editing by chat. You or an admin can mention the bot and say "add to the docs: the stream moves to 8pm from next week". Knowledge base by chat is on from the start, and only the server owner and members with Administrator or Manage Server can use it.

Will it spam chat during a stream?

No. It only reads channels you turn on, and each channel gets a mode. Give your help channel Answers, so it replies to questions as they come. Give a busy general channel Mentions, so it only speaks when someone mentions it.

It also skips filler like "lol" and "ok", skips messages that mention another member, and ignores anything shorter than a length you set. If one person keeps asking, Questions per member per day caps them, and Who can ask can limit asking to roles you choose, such as subscribers.

What else can it do for a creator's server?

Answering questions is the core. Everything else is a module you switch on one at a time, and the ones creators tend to use are:

• Live alerts: pings a channel when a creator you follow goes live on Twitch or Kick, or uploads on YouTube, with a role to ping and your own announcement text.
• Welcome & goodbye: greets new members in a channel you choose.
• Self-serve roles: members pick their own roles from a button panel or a reaction, for example a role that gets pinged for stream alerts.
• Giveaways: timed giveaways members enter with a click; the bot draws the winners when the timer ends.
• Leveling & XP and Starboard, for servers that like those.

Each module is off until you switch it on, and any module that acts in your server asks for its own permissions through a second Discord consent screen. The full module list is on the Ascend AI page.

What won't it do?

Worth knowing before you set it up:

• It doesn't watch your stream. "Is there a stream tonight?" is answered from your schedule and #schedule, not from whether you're live right now.
• It doesn't make things up. When your documents don't cover a question, it says so and points the member to your support channel if you set one. On the Strict setting it answers only from your documents and reference channels.
• It doesn't replace your mods. It takes the repeat questions so your mods can spend their time on chat, not on the schedule for the tenth time.

How do you set it up?

1. Add Ascend AI from the dashboard. The standard install asks for four permissions and no Administrator.
2. Pick a plan. Most creator servers start on Community, $9 a month or $90 a year. There is no free trial.
3. Write the schedule, perks, merch and rules documents.
4. Add #schedule and #rules as reference channels.
5. Turn on your help channel in Answers mode, and #general in Mentions mode if you want it there.
6. Set a support channel and a mod channel for the questions it hands over.

The full setup guide walks through each step, and the Ascend AI docs cover every setting.

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