Umbraco AI isn't coming — it's here!
Umbraco AI has been quietly landing in production over the last few months. The Editor MCP, the Agent and Copilot interface, prompt template management — these aren't roadmap promises, they're packages you can install today on Umbraco 17. And as a Platinum Partner, we've been working with them as each piece has arrived.
That matters, because there's a difference between knowing a feature exists and knowing how to put it to work for a real client with real content requirements.
What Umbraco AI actually is
At its core, Umbraco AI is an integration layer built into the CMS — not a single feature but a foundation. It's provider-agnostic, which means it works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Amazon Bedrock and Microsoft AI Foundry. You configure the model, define the rules, and the platform applies them consistently across every AI feature your editors touch.
On top of that foundation, modular packages deliver the day-to-day value: the Editor MCP lets content teams draft, translate, fix accessibility issues and update pages using natural language — without understanding the underlying data structure. The Copilot interface brings context-aware AI assistance into the backoffice while keeping editors in control. Prompt templates mean you can define tone, structure and behaviour once and deploy it consistently across environments.
It's designed so that AI supports the people using your CMS, rather than adding complexity for them to manage.
Why we're building a service around it now
We've been doing AI work in Umbraco for a while — our alt text tool is a good example of what's possible when you wire AI into the backoffice thoughtfully. But Umbraco AI changes the picture. Instead of custom integrations for every project, there's now a governed, upgradeable foundation to build on.
That shifts the conversation from "can we add AI to this?" to "what should AI actually do here, and how do we configure it properly?" — which is a much more useful question for clients to be asking.
We're now offering Umbraco AI as a structured service: assessment of where AI adds genuine value for your content team, implementation on your existing Umbraco platform, and guidance on provider selection, governance and prompt strategy. Not a proof of concept — a production service, shaped around how your organisation actually works.
What's still coming
The roadmap has more in flight — Content Delivery Intelligence (a read-only LLM feed of your published content), Agent Skills for backoffice extension automation, and AI tests and evaluations for validating model behaviour against your specific requirements. We're tracking all of it and will be ready to implement as each capability lands.
If you're running Umbraco and want to understand what AI can genuinely do for your content team today — not in six months, read about our Umbraco AI services or just get in touch.
