What is an AI agent and how is it different from a chatbot?
A chatbot follows a decision tree somebody wrote: the moment the customer steps off the script, it stalls. An AI agent understands the message in plain language, queries your systems to answer with real data, and executes actions: booking an appointment, building a quote, recording the customer or escalating to a person. The practical difference is that an agent decides and acts, it does not just reply.
Can the agent make things up?
That is the real risk with AI, which is why we treat it as criterion number one. Our agents answer with data queried from your systems rather than from memory, and when they do not have the data they say so and hand the conversation to a person. Prices, dates and commitments always come from a source of yours.
Which channels can it handle?
Website chat, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and email. The agent answers on your business account at any hour, books or quotes by querying your systems, and hands the conversation to your team when it should.
How much do AI agents for business cost?
There are two parts: building the agent, quoted per project depending on how many systems it touches, and the per-conversation cost of the AI model, which is variable. The automation map shows you both numbers along with the estimated savings, so you can see whether it adds up before you start.
Does my team lose control of conversations?
No. Your team sees every conversation on a dashboard and can take over at any moment without the customer noticing the switch. On top of that, the cases we define as sensitive (complaints, discounts, exceptions) escalate to a person on their own.
What happens to my customers’ data?
We define in writing which data the agent touches, where it is stored and for how long, and that data is not used to train anyone’s models. It is one of the first things settled, before any system gets connected.
Will it connect to the systems we already use?
Yes, as long as they expose an API or we can integrate with them. Normally we wire it to the calendar, catalog, inventory or CRM, because an agent that cannot query your systems can only improvise, and that is exactly what has to be avoided.
How long until it is running?
An agent on one concrete task is usually handling conversations between week 3 and week 4, with a supervised pilot where your team reviews every conversation before it runs on its own. We always start with a single task: that is what keeps the project from ballooning and getting cancelled.