AI Google Review Widget: RevuKit's
AI Summary Carousel

Most review widgets do one thing: they copy your Google stars onto your page. That's useful, but it's table stakes. The new AI Summary Carousel goes further — it reads your reviews, understands what your customers are saying, and surfaces that insight as a polished, animated panel that earns trust at a glance.

This is RevuKit's most advanced widget to date. It combines AI-generated review summaries, live Google data, and a set of animations so refined they feel more like a product demo than a review section. If you're deciding between this and a standard embed, compare it with our guide on how to embed Google reviews on your site and test layouts in the live widget preview tool.

What Is the AI Summary Carousel?

The AI Summary Carousel is a single embeddable widget that brings together three layers of information:

• Your live Google rating — star score and total review count, updated automatically.
• An AI-generated summary — a short paragraph synthesising the key themes from across your reviews: what customers love, what they highlight, what keeps them coming back.
• A scrolling review carousel — individual review cards with reviewer names, ratings, and text, cycling automatically through your best reviews.

The result is a widget that doesn't just prove you have good reviews — it explains why, in plain language, without requiring a visitor to read through every card themselves.

AI Google Review Widget vs Traditional Review Widgets

If your goal is conversion, the AI summary layer usually does the heavy lifting: it gives the buyer the “why people trust this business” answer immediately.

AI-Generated Review Summaries

The AI summary is the headline feature. RevuKit processes your Google reviews server-side and generates a concise paragraph capturing the recurring themes — quality, speed, friendliness, value, atmosphere, whatever your customers actually talk about.

This matters because most visitors don't read individual reviews. They scan. A well-written two-sentence summary that says “Customers consistently praise the fast turnaround and knowledgeable staff — several note it's the only place they'll take their car” does more conversion work than a stack of five-star cards with “Great service!”

The summary is pre-cached on RevuKit's CDN, so it loads instantly — no visible delay, no skeleton shimmer waiting for an AI response. It's there when the widget appears.

How summaries update: As new Google reviews come in, RevuKit regenerates the summary on your next sync cycle (every 24 hours on Pro). The cached summary is replaced automatically — you never touch it manually.

The Animations (In Plain English)

The AI Summary Carousel has more animation detail than any other RevuKit widget. Each effect was designed for a specific purpose — here's what's happening and why.

The widget mid-animation — you can see the word-by-word reveal in progress, with early words fully visible and later words still fading in from a soft blur.

Word-by-Word Reveal

When the AI summary comes into view, it doesn't appear all at once. Each word fades in and sharpens individually — starting slightly blurred and transparent, landing at full opacity and focus — with a staggered delay of about 42ms per word.

The effect mimics the way a typewriter builds anticipation, but feels more modern and cinematic: the text seems to materialise out of the air. By the time the last word lands, visitors have read the first sentence — which is exactly where you want their attention.

This is triggered by an Intersection Observer — the animation only runs when the widget actually enters the viewport, so visitors always see the full reveal on scroll.

3D Tilt & Cursor Glow

Move your cursor over the AI summary panel and it tilts in 3D to follow your pointer. This uses a spring-physics simulation running on requestAnimationFrame — the card has velocity and damping, so it settles smoothly rather than snapping. It feels weighty and physical, not jittery.

Simultaneously, a radial glow gradient follows your cursor inside the card. The glow is a subtle highlight that makes the panel feel lit from within — it fades out instantly when your cursor leaves.

Both effects are applied via CSS custom properties (--rk-tilt-x, --rk-tilt-y, --rk-glow-x, --rk-glow-y) that the animation loop updates on every frame. Because these only touch the GPU compositor, there's no layout thrash — the rest of your page is completely unaffected.

Aurora Background & Spinning Border

Behind the summary text, two softly blurred colour blobs drift slowly using alternating scale and translate transforms — an aurora effect that gives the panel visual depth without overpowering the content. The first blob cycles on an 8-second loop; the second on a 10-second loop with a 3-second offset, so they never move in lockstep.

The panel border uses a conic gradient that rotates continuously on a 6-second loop, giving the impression of a shimmering edge — a subtle but distinctive detail that makes the AI summary panel feel different from a standard card.

Accessibility note: Every animation in the widget — word reveal, tilt, glow, aurora, spinning border — is gated behind the prefers-reduced-motion media query. Visitors who have requested reduced motion see a clean, static widget with zero animation. No compromises.

How to Add It to Your Site

The AI Summary Carousel is available in your RevuKit account under the Interactive Widgets section. Adding it follows the same pattern as any RevuKit widget:

1. Start at onboarding and connect your business in the RevuKit setup flow.
2. Select AI Summary Carousel from the Interactive Widgets section.
3. Customise your colours — primary, secondary, and tertiary colour controls let you match your brand exactly.
4. Copy the embed code — a single script tag.
5. Paste it anywhere on your site — works on any platform that supports custom HTML and JavaScript.

Using Framer? The AI Summary Carousel is available as a native widget through the RevuKit Framer plugin. Install the plugin, pick the widget, adjust the controls, and click Add to canvas. No code, no embed snippets — it drops straight onto your Framer canvas as a Code Component.

Need platform-specific instructions? See our step-by-step guides for Webflow, Shopify, Wix, and Squarespace.

Who Is This For?

The AI Summary Carousel is best suited for:

Related Guides

• How to Embed Google Reviews on Any Website
• 24-Hour Google Review Sync: How Fresh Data Improves Trust
• AI Summary Carousel for Framer
• Best Framer Plugins for Review Widgets

Frequently Asked Questions

The AI Summary Carousel is available now for RevuKit Pro and Enterprise users. Start with guided onboarding, then launch your widget from the Interactive Widgets section.