# D013 - Live Demo Ask This Site

> D013 - Live Demo Ask This Site: a note from the Obsidian vault behind https://saifsiddiqui.in.

Canonical URL: https://saifsiddiqui.in/brain/d013-live-demo-ask-this-site/ (this is its markdown representation; the same URL serves HTML to browsers)
Other languages: hi: https://saifsiddiqui.in/hi/brain/d013-live-demo-ask-this-site/ · kn: https://saifsiddiqui.in/kn/brain/d013-live-demo-ask-this-site/ · ur: https://saifsiddiqui.in/ur/brain/d013-live-demo-ask-this-site/ · te: https://saifsiddiqui.in/te/brain/d013-live-demo-ask-this-site/ · ar: https://saifsiddiqui.in/ar/brain/d013-live-demo-ask-this-site/ · hi-Latn: https://saifsiddiqui.in/hi-latn/brain/d013-live-demo-ask-this-site/

**Type:** decision  
**Status:** accepted  
**Created:** 2026-07-17  
**Tags:** decision, feature, ai, demo

## D013: Live demo: "Ask this site" AI toy

**Context:** Saif wants a small interactive toy on the site (confirmed). Needs to prove product craft first-hand.

**Options considered:**
- Distill a shipped product feature, high fidelity but lots of build per project.
- Embed [Insomniac](/brain/projects/) (existing web toy), cheapest, but generic.
- **"Ask this site"**, a tiny AI input answering questions about Saif, grounded in his project data.

**Decision:** **"Ask this site"** (AI toy). Alternative kept: embed Insomniac if a non-AI toy is preferred.

**Why:** No external product to clone; showcases Saif's AI strength directly; and it *ties the whole site together*, it answers **from** the [vault](/brain/knowledge-graph/) and the same `llms.txt` content that AI crawlers read ([D009 - SEO and AI Crawlers](/brain/d009-seo-and-ai-crawlers/)). Memorable, on-brand, single-purpose.

**Tech:** Vercel AI SDK + AI Gateway, serverless, streamed, rate-limited, cheap model. Full loading/empty/error/rate-limited states (craft on display). Lazy island.

**Trade-offs:** needs guardrails (rate limit, scoped to grounded answers, refuse off-topic) and a small cost budget. Resolves [Open Questions](/brain/open-questions/) #3 (live demo).

## Linked from

- [Open Questions](/brain/open-questions/)
- [Phase 3B - AI Ask This Site](/brain/phase-3b-ai-ask-this-site/)
- [Portfolio Brain](/brain/portfolio-brain/)
- [Projects](/brain/projects/)

All notes: [/brain/](/brain/)

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Mohd Saif, Product Engineer. I build solutions, not dead software.
Email: saifmd238@gmail.com · GitHub: https://github.com/Saif-09 · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohd-saif-134076141/ · Résumé (PDF): https://saifsiddiqui.in/resume

More for agents:
- [/llms.txt](/llms.txt): short summary of this site
- [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt): the complete text of every page in one fetch
- [/agents.md](/agents.md): when to use this site, and how to query it
- [/sitemap-index.xml](/sitemap-index.xml): every URL, in seven languages