Technology: Chatbots

AI Chatbot Development Services

AI chatbot development builds conversational assistants that answer from your own documents, capture and qualify leads, and hand off to your team. It is for small business owners, customer support directors and sales leaders. You receive an assistant for your website and chat channels, connected to your CRM, helpdesk or store.

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  • Answers from your own documents
  • Sources shown
  • Handoff with the conversation attached
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  • Dhaka delivery hub
  • Scope agreed in writing
  • Weekly demos during build
  • A named lead on every project
  • Human handoff on every AI agent

Who it is for

Small business owners, customer support directors, sales leaders

What you get

A chatbot on your chosen channels, connected to your systems

How answers are grounded

Your own documents, with sources shown

When people are needed

A handoff to your team with the conversation attached

Overview

What an AI chatbot is

An AI chatbot is a conversational assistant. It reads a customer's question, finds the answer in the content you give it, and replies in plain language. It can also ask questions of its own, collect contact details, book a call and pass the conversation to a person.

We build the chatbot so that it answers from your sources, shows where the answer came from, and says so when it does not know.

Scope and fees: confirmed after a discovery call.

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Who it is for

Who this is for

  • Small business owners who want questions answered and leads captured when nobody is online.

  • Customer support directors who want routine questions handled and harder ones sent to agents with full context.

  • Sales leaders who want website visitors qualified and booked into the calendar.

  • E-commerce teams who want product questions and order help inside the chat.

Not a fit if most of your customers contact you by phone. Look at AI voice agents instead.

Services

AI chatbot development services we provide

Deliverables

Custom AI chatbot development company: what you receive

  • An omnichannel assistant on the channels you choose, integrated with your CRM, helpdesk, calendar or store

  • Answers grounded in your documents, with sources shown

  • Lead capture and booking inside the conversation

  • Handoff to a person, with context, and a fallback when confidence is low

  • Analytics: top questions, resolution rate, leads captured and gaps in your content

  • Documentation, and a handover or ongoing management

Grounding

Answers grounded in your own sources

Your site, documents, product catalogue and past tickets become the content the chatbot draws on. Answers carry a reference so staff and customers can check them. When the content has no answer, the chatbot says so and offers a person.

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Handoff

Channels and handoff

The chatbot can run on your website and on the messaging channels you use.

Handoff rules are set with you. They decide what the chatbot handles, what it declines and when it passes the chat to a person. For lead capture and any messaging, we build in the consent and opt-out handling your channels require.

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E-commerce

AI chatbot development for e-commerce

For an online store, the chatbot can answer product and shipping questions from your catalogue and policies, help a shopper pick an item, and check an order through your store platform. It can pass complex cases to support. The same assistant can capture an email address, with consent, for follow-up.

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How it works

How AI chatbot development works

Timeline depends on the amount of content, the channels and the integrations. We confirm it during scoping.

  1. Step 1

    Gather your knowledge

    We collect your site, documents, catalogue and past tickets. These become the only sources the chatbot answers from.

  2. Step 2

    Design the conversation and guardrails

    We decide lead capture, booking, channels, and what the chatbot must hand off or decline.

  3. Step 3

    Build and connect

    We build the assistant and connect it to your CRM, helpdesk, calendar or store.

  4. Step 4

    Test

    We check answers and sources against real questions before anything goes live.

  5. Step 5

    Launch and improve

    We deploy on your channels, then use real conversations to find gaps and improve answers.

Compare

Which one do you need: chatbot, voice agent or receptionist?

  • AI chatbot: text conversations on your website and messaging channels. This page.

  • AI voice agents: phone and voice conversations, inbound and outbound.

  • AI agents: software that takes actions across your systems, not only conversation.

Experience

Conversation design for a better customer experience

An intelligent chatbot is only as good as its conversation design. We plan the questions people really ask, the answers you approve and the point where a person takes over, so the chatbot improves customer service without frustrating anyone.

A chatbot can run on your website, in mobile apps or in messaging channels, and chatbot integration with your CRM or help desk keeps every conversation in one place. Done well, it supports user engagement and customer engagement while your team focuses on the cases that need them.

What are AI chatbot development services?

AI chatbot development services cover the design, build and launch of a conversational assistant for your business. That includes preparing your content, designing the conversation, connecting the chatbot to your CRM or helpdesk, testing answers, setting handoff rules to your team and improving the chatbot after launch.

Can the chatbot be trained on our own data?

Yes. It answers from the documents, web pages, product data and past tickets you provide. Answers show where they came from. If the content does not contain an answer, the chatbot says so and offers to pass the conversation to a person instead of guessing.

What is the difference between a chatbot and conversational AI?

Conversational AI is the broader technology that lets software understand and respond in natural language, by text or voice. A chatbot is one product built with it. We use the terms loosely, but the practical question is the channel: text chat, voice calls, or both.

Can the chatbot connect to our CRM and knowledge base?

Yes, if the system has an API or a supported integration. The chatbot can create leads, book appointments, read order status and pull answers from your knowledge base. We tell you during scoping if a system needs custom work, before you commit to a build.

What is the difference between a chatbot and a voice agent?

A chatbot works in text on your website or messaging apps. A voice agent talks with callers on the phone. Both can use the same knowledge base and hand off to your team. Choose by where your customers contact you. We can build both on one set of content.

Can you build chatbots for e-commerce?

Yes. An e-commerce chatbot can answer product, shipping and returns questions from your catalogue and policies, help shoppers choose items and look up orders through your store platform. Complex cases go to your support team with the conversation attached, so customers do not have to repeat themselves.

Can the chatbot hand off to a human?

Yes. Handoff is built in. You decide the triggers, such as a low-confidence answer, a complaint or a request for a person. The chat history and any details collected go with the handoff so the customer does not repeat themselves.

How is a custom chatbot priced?

Fees depend on the amount of content, the channels, the integrations and the volume of conversations. We confirm scope and fees on a discovery call. That way you know what is included, which channels and systems are covered, and what ongoing management involves before you commit.

Frequently asked questions

Last updated: 16 October 2026

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your chatbot.

Tell us where your customers ask questions and which systems the chatbot should connect to. We will scope it with you.

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