Chrome extension
The Chrome extension puts The AI CMO inside your browser: a sidebar agent on any page, one-tap research and competitor tools, and – most importantly – it lets chat work through your browser with your existing logins instead of a cloud browser.
Install
The extension installs from the app (not the Chrome Web Store yet):
download the ZIP from the extension page, unzip it, open
chrome://extensions, switch on Developer mode, choose Load
unpacked, and select the folder. Pin "The AI CMO" via the
puzzle-piece icon. About two minutes, and the in-app guide walks every
step. Updates work the same way – download the new ZIP and reload.
Signing in: the extension uses your existing session – just keep a signed-in theaicmo.com tab open. If the sidebar says "Sign in Required", open theaicmo.com and sign in; that's the whole fix.
The sidebar
Open the side panel on any page. Two tabs:
- Agent – a chat with your AI CMO that can see the page you're on and act on it. Attach files or pull from your library. Messages cost 2 credits each.
- Features – one-tap tools for the page you're viewing: Save to Research (clip the page as a source), Watch this competitor (track the site for changes), Preflight selected text, an AI Brand Checker (how AI models perceive any brand), Ad Style Transfer (generate ads from any image on any website), and your image gallery.
Right-clicking anywhere adds the same powers to the context menu: draft in an editable field, rewrite a selection in your brand voice, tighten copy, preflight before publishing, save images to your gallery, clip research, or add a site to competitor watch.
Browser automation
Give the agent a task in plain words – "log my leads from this page into the CRM", "fill in this form from my brand profile" – and it plans and executes the steps: navigating, clicking, typing, extracting data, working across tabs. While it works, the window shows a glowing border and a banner ("Browsing in progress – do not interact with this window"); let it finish or cancel from chat.
It's built to be honest about limits: it stops at paywalls and dead ends rather than guessing, retries at most a few times, and it will ask you to handle logins, captchas, and payments itself – it never does those for you.
Why it changes chat
With the extension installed, chat on theaicmo.com shows Extension connected – and browser tasks from chat run in your browser, with your existing logins to Gmail, HubSpot, LinkedIn, your ad platforms, your CMS. Without it, the same tasks fall back to the built-in cloud browser, which asks for consent, costs 40 credits per session (refunded if the session fails), and needs a login the first time it meets each platform. The extension route is both more capable and far cheaper.
Permissions, plainly
The extension asks for broad permissions because automation needs them: access to the sites it works on, tabs, and Chrome's debugger – which is how it types and clicks like a person. Two things you'll notice and shouldn't worry about:
- During automation Chrome shows its standard bar: "The AI CMO started debugging this browser." That's the input mechanism, and it goes away when the task ends.
- Because the extension is developer-mode installed, Chrome may occasionally ask you to confirm you want to keep it.
Your saved credentials never leave the encrypted vault, and the agent only acts when you give it a task.