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AI chatbot development and assistants for business

Help customers and employees find answers and complete simple actions through conversation.

Customers ask the same questions again and again, while employees hunt for answers across scattered documents. An assistant can become a convenient entry point to the right information and simple actions. The key to AI chatbot development is to define what the bot should answer, which sources it draws on and when it hands the conversation to a person. It can serve customers or your own staff.

We design the conversation flows and connect your knowledge base and the systems you need. The assistant can live in web chat or in the messenger your customers use, most often WhatsApp in South Africa, subject to the platform's rules. We set access limits, behaviour for unknown requests and confirmation of important actions. We test the answers on realistic examples, including incomplete and ambiguous requests.

You get an assistant with defined capabilities and a clear process for updating its knowledge. We agree on quality criteria and your specialists' role up front. Send us sample questions and the sources of the answers, and we will pick the first use case worth launching and testing.

What you get

  1. 01Conversation and action flows
  2. 02Connecting your knowledge base
  3. 03Web chat, Telegram or WhatsApp
  4. 04Integrations and access rules
  5. 05Answer checks and handover to people

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