diff --git a/src/main/java/org/wise/portal/presentation/web/controllers/ChatGptcontroller.java b/src/main/java/org/wise/portal/presentation/web/controllers/ChatGptcontroller.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9cfbd8678
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/wise/portal/presentation/web/controllers/ChatGptcontroller.java
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+package org.wise.portal.presentation.web.controllers;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
+import org.springframework.security.access.annotation.Secured;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
+
+@RestController
+@RequestMapping("/api")
+public class ChatGptcontroller {
+
+  @Autowired
+  Environment appProperties;
+
+  @ResponseBody
+  @Secured("ROLE_USER")
+  @PostMapping("/chat-gpt")
+  protected String sendChatMessage(@RequestBody String body) {
+    String openaiApiKey = appProperties.getProperty("OPENAI_API_KEY");
+    if (openaiApiKey == null || openaiApiKey.isEmpty()) {
+      throw new RuntimeException("OPENAI_API_KEY is not set");
+    }
+    try {
+      URL url = new URL("https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions");
+      HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+      connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
+      connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Bearer " + openaiApiKey);
+      connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
+      connection.setDoOutput(true);
+      OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
+      writer.write(body);
+      writer.flush();
+      writer.close();
+      BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
+      String line;
+      StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
+      while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
+        response.append(line);
+      }
+      br.close();
+      return response.toString();
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      throw new RuntimeException(e);
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/wise/portal/presentation/web/controllers/author/project/AuthorAPIController.java b/src/main/java/org/wise/portal/presentation/web/controllers/author/project/AuthorAPIController.java
index 8810660b5..6b3b243b0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/wise/portal/presentation/web/controllers/author/project/AuthorAPIController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/wise/portal/presentation/web/controllers/author/project/AuthorAPIController.java
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
@@ -398,6 +399,7 @@ protected HashMap<String, Object> getAuthorProjectConfig(Authentication auth,
     config.put("projectAssetURL", contextPath + "/api/author/project/asset/" + project.getId());
     config.put("projectBaseURL", projectBaseURL);
     config.put("previewProjectURL", contextPath + "/preview/unit/" + project.getId());
+    config.put("chatGptEnabled", !StringUtils.isEmpty(appProperties.getProperty("OPENAI_API_KEY")));
     config.put("cRaterRequestURL", contextPath + "/api/c-rater");
     config.put("importStepsURL",
         contextPath + "/api/author/project/importSteps/" + project.getId());
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application-dockerdev-sample.properties b/src/main/resources/application-dockerdev-sample.properties
index 6854d6b72..fe3f538a3 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application-dockerdev-sample.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application-dockerdev-sample.properties
@@ -199,3 +199,5 @@ system-wide-salt=secret
 # Speech to Text using AWS
 #speech-to-text.aws.region=
 #speech-to-text.aws.identity-pool-id=
+
+#OPENAI_API_KEY=
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application_sample.properties b/src/main/resources/application_sample.properties
index a76b9546d..84ae683d7 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application_sample.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application_sample.properties
@@ -199,3 +199,5 @@ system-wide-salt=secret
 # Speech to Text using AWS
 #speech-to-text.aws.region=
 #speech-to-text.aws.identity-pool-id=
+
+#OPENAI_API_KEY=