Will it hallucinate or make stuff up about my products?
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It only knows what your site says. We ground every response in the scraped content of your URL — the agent will say “I don’t have that in front of me, want me to connect you with someone?” before it invents a spec. Production builds add tool use for live data (inventory, pricing, distributor lookup).
Is my data secure? What happens to it?
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The lead info you enter syncs to our Zoho CRM (we follow up like any vendor would). The site we scrape is your own public website. Conversations live in our database for 30 days for debugging, then expire. We never train models on your data and never share it.
How is this different from Chatbase / Drift / Intercom / Botpress?
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Those are generic platforms — your products are a config inside their UI. We build custom code per client, tuned to your specific products and your specific buyers, on top of frontier reasoning models (Claude). You own the code. Same caliber of bot, half the price, no platform lock-in.
How much does the real version cost?
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$3,000 starting price for a custom build. One-time fee. Includes catalog ingestion + AI training, branded UI deployed on your domain, 2-hour team handoff, and 30 days post-launch support. Larger scope (configurators, doc generation, deep CRM integration) prices up from there. Honest scope on the discovery call.
Are there ongoing fees? Subscriptions?
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No subscription, no per-seat, no platform rent. Once the build ships, you own the codebase and the deployment outright. The only variable cost is the model itself — typically ~$0.10 per conversation paid directly to Anthropic. Optional monthly retainer for ongoing tuning if you want it ($500–$2,000/mo), but it's never required.
Will it integrate with my CRM? (HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho, etc.)
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Yes — it integrates with every major CRM. Zoho, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, ActiveCampaign, Copper, Close, or any custom CRM with a REST API. Leads, conversation transcripts, generated proposals, and captured specs all sync automatically to your existing pipeline. No “you have to migrate” sales pitch.
How long until it's live in production?
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Under 2 weeks for most builds. The free demo proves the concept in 20 seconds; production wraps in tuning, CRM integration, deployment under your domain, branding, and team handoff. We've done it in 4 days when there's a real deadline.
What if my site is JavaScript-heavy or behind a login?
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Jina Reader (our scraper) handles JS-heavy sites well in most cases. Authenticated content needs us to ingest it differently in the production build — we'd pull from your CMS, PIM, or a CSV export instead. The free demo only sees public pages.
Will the demo actually be good, or just a toy?
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Honest answer: depends entirely on how rich your site is. For thin pages (<300 words), we'll tell you up front. For real sites with product content, it produces a genuinely useful proof of concept. The production version, with full ingestion + tool use + ongoing tuning, is in a different class.
I just want a chatbot to answer FAQs. Is this overkill?
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Probably yes — for static FAQ-only use cases, a Chatbase subscription is cheaper. We're best when the answer to “which product fits my situation” requires reasoning, configuration, cross-sell, or sales-engineer-level judgment. That's where AI agents earn their seat.