diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/AI/useAIChat.tsx b/packages/gitbook/src/components/AI/useAIChat.tsx
index 63be4351e..73c34e0e0 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/AI/useAIChat.tsx
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/components/AI/useAIChat.tsx
@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@ import {
     type AIStreamResponseToolCallPending,
     type AIToolCallResult,
     SiteInsightsDisplayContext,
+    type SiteInsightsEventAskView,
 } from '@gitbook/api';
 
-import { getInsightsSession, trackAskView, useTrackEvent } from '../Insights';
+import { getInsightsSession, useTrackEvent } from '../Insights';
 import { type UpdateSearchState, useSetSearchState } from '../Search';
 import { addRecentSearchQuery } from '../Search/recent-queries';
 import type { AnyAIControl } from './controls';
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ export type AIChatStatus =
     | 'error'
     | 'confirm';
 
-export type AskAITrigger = 'hover' | 'selection' | 'site' | 'page' | 'embed';
+export type AskAITrigger = NonNullable<SiteInsightsEventAskView['trigger']>;
 
 export type AIChatState = {
     /**
@@ -308,7 +309,7 @@ export function AIChatProvider(props: {
         (trigger?: AskAITrigger) => {
             setIntercomLauncherHidden(true);
             if (!renderMessageOptions?.asEmbeddable) {
-                trackAskView(trackEvent, trigger);
+                trackEvent({ type: 'ask_view', trigger });
             }
 
             const { initialQuery } = globalState.getState();
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/Embeddable/EmbeddableAIChat.tsx b/packages/gitbook/src/components/Embeddable/EmbeddableAIChat.tsx
index cbfd68d31..781ee9bd5 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/Embeddable/EmbeddableAIChat.tsx
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/components/Embeddable/EmbeddableAIChat.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import React from 'react';
 
 import * as api from '@gitbook/api';
 
-import { trackAskView, useTrackEvent } from '../Insights';
+import { useTrackEvent } from '../Insights';
 import { LinkContext } from '../primitives';
 import { useIsVisible } from '../VisibilityContext';
 import {
@@ -60,10 +60,13 @@ export function EmbeddableAIChat(props: EmbeddableAIChatProps) {
             return;
         }
 
-        trackAskView(trackEvent, 'embed', {
-            pageId: null,
-            displayContext: api.SiteInsightsDisplayContext.Embed,
-        });
+        trackEvent(
+            { type: 'ask_view', trigger: 'embed' },
+            {
+                pageId: null,
+                displayContext: api.SiteInsightsDisplayContext.Embed,
+            }
+        );
     }, [trackEvent, isVisible]);
 
     const tabsRef = React.useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/components/Insights/InsightsProvider.tsx b/packages/gitbook/src/components/Insights/InsightsProvider.tsx
index 6f0fa9480..658c5c83f 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/components/Insights/InsightsProvider.tsx
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/components/Insights/InsightsProvider.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import type * as api from '@gitbook/api';
 import { SiteInsightsDisplayContext } from '@gitbook/api';
 import { OpenAPIOperationContextProvider } from '@gitbook/react-openapi';
 
-import type { AskAITrigger } from '../AI';
 import { type CurrentContentContext, useCurrentContent } from '../hooks';
 import { getSession } from './sessions';
 import { type VisitorResponse, useVisitor } from './visitorId';
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ export type TrackEventInput<EventName extends InsightsEventName = InsightsEventN
 /**
  * Callback to track an event.
  */
-export type TrackEventCallback = <EventName extends InsightsEventName>(
+type TrackEventCallback = <EventName extends InsightsEventName>(
     event: TrackEventInput<EventName>,
     ctx?: InsightsEventPageContext,
     options?: InsightsEventOptions
@@ -224,16 +223,6 @@ export function useTrackEvent(): TrackEventCallback {
     return React.useContext(InsightsContext);
 }
 
-/** Track an ask view while the frontend uses an API type that predates its trigger field. */
-export function trackAskView(
-    trackEvent: TrackEventCallback,
-    trigger: AskAITrigger | undefined,
-    ctx?: InsightsEventPageContext
-) {
-    // TODO: remove this cast once @gitbook/api includes SiteInsightsEventAskView.trigger.
-    trackEvent({ type: 'ask_view', trigger } as unknown as TrackEventInput<'ask_view'>, ctx);
-}
-
 /**
  * The referrer when it's another page of this origin, so a full page load (e.g. an absolute link
  * to a missing page) still records the page it came from.