diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/home/HomeAIChat.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/home/HomeAIChat.svelte
index e629dd611e..3072e2a87c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/home/HomeAIChat.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/home/HomeAIChat.svelte
@@ -1,14 +1,39 @@
+<script lang="ts" module>
+	/** Example prompts: the short `label` is shown as a clickable tag under the chat,
+	 * the `prompt` is what gets typed out as the placeholder / dropped into the input. */
+	export const homeAIExamples: { label: string; prompt: string }[] = [
+		{
+			label: 'Sync Salesforce',
+			prompt: 'Sync new Salesforce leads into a postgres table every hour'
+		},
+		{
+			label: 'Ban Discord users',
+			prompt:
+				'Build a workflow that triggers on a Discord message, checks for offensive language using an LLM, and possibly block them'
+		},
+		{
+			label: 'Weekly Slack report',
+			prompt: 'Generate a weekly sales report from postgres and post it to Slack every Monday'
+		}
+	]
+</script>
+
 <script lang="ts">
 	import TextInput from '$lib/components/text_input/TextInput.svelte'
 	import { ArrowUp, Settings } from 'lucide-svelte'
 	import Button from '../common/button/Button.svelte'
-	import ProviderModelSelector from '../copilot/chat/ProviderModelSelector.svelte'
 	import { startSessionWithPrompt } from '../sessions/sessionSwitch.svelte'
 	import { copilotInfo, copilotWorkspace, loadCopilot } from '$lib/aiStore'
 	import { workspaceStore } from '$lib/stores'
 	import { base } from '$lib/base'
+	import AIChatModelSettings from '../copilot/chat/AIChatModelSettings.svelte'
 
-	let value = $state('')
+	interface Props {
+		/** bindable so the example tags rendered by the page can fill the prompt */
+		value?: string
+	}
+
+	let { value = $bindable('') }: Props = $props()
 	let placeholder = $state('')
 
 	// In global-AI mode the layout's chat panel is disabled and never loads the copilot
@@ -44,10 +69,7 @@
 		}
 	}
 
-	const prompts = [
-		'Sync new Salesforce leads into a postgres table every hour',
-		'Build a workflow that triggers on a Discord message, checks for offensive language using an LLM, and possibly block them'
-	]
+	const prompts = homeAIExamples.map((e) => e.prompt)
 
 	const TYPE_MS = 45
 	const DELETE_MS = 25
@@ -113,10 +135,8 @@
 				disabled={!value.trim() || starting || disabled}
 				onclick={start}
 			></Button>
-			<div
-				class="absolute left-3 bottom-4 flex items-center border rounded-md bg-surface-tertiary px-1"
-			>
-				<ProviderModelSelector />
+			<div class="absolute left-3 bottom-4 flex items-center px-0.5">
+				<AIChatModelSettings />
 			</div>
 		</div>
 		{#if disabled}
diff --git a/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/+page.svelte b/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/+page.svelte
index a936a4bd31..4cffc94458 100644
--- a/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/+page.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/+page.svelte
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 	import NoDirectDeployAlert from '$lib/components/NoDirectDeployAlert.svelte'
 	import { useSearchParams } from '$lib/svelte5UtilsKit.svelte'
 	import { z } from 'zod'
-	import HomeAIChat from '$lib/components/home/HomeAIChat.svelte'
+	import HomeAIChat, { homeAIExamples } from '$lib/components/home/HomeAIChat.svelte'
 
 	type Tab = 'hub' | 'workspace'
 
@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@
 
 	let showCreateButtons = $state(false)
 
+	// prompt of the home AI chat, filled in by the example tags below it
+	let aiPrompt = $state('')
+
 	onMount(() => {
 		// Check if there's a tutorial parameter in the URL
 		const tutorialParam = page.url.searchParams.get('tutorial')
@@ -277,9 +280,22 @@
 		</div>
 
 		<div class="w-full mb-12 mt-2">
-			<HomeAIChat />
+			<HomeAIChat bind:value={aiPrompt} />
+
+			<div class="max-w-[40rem] mx-auto flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
+				<div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center gap-1.5">
+					{#each homeAIExamples as example (example.label)}
+						<Button
+							variant="default"
+							unifiedSize="xs"
+							btnClasses="!rounded-full !text-2xs !text-hint"
+							onClick={() => (aiPrompt = example.prompt)}
+						>
+							{example.label}
+						</Button>
+					{/each}
+				</div>
 
-			<div class="max-w-[40rem] mx-auto flex justify-end">
 				<div class="flex flex-row items-center gap-1">
 					<Button
 						variant="subtle"