- What it costs
- A website chatbot on your own knowledge base starts at €890, a support bot with handover to a human at €1,190, and a bot on the site plus WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram at €1,490. That covers building the knowledge base, tone of voice, testing against real questions and the launch. Running it afterwards is API usage only, usually €20-60 a month.
- Timeline
- A website chatbot goes live in 1-2 weeks, a support bot with handover in 1-2 weeks, a multi-channel bot in 2-3 weeks. The clock starts the day I have your documents and site access in hand, and the date is written into the contract.
- Where it works
- A widget on your website, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram Direct, Telegram and email. One knowledge base feeds all of them, and the customer history stays single across channels rather than one thread per app.
- Where the answers come from
- From your own material: price lists, service pages, policies, contracts and the questions you already answer by hand every week. The bot searches that base first and writes the reply from the passage it found, showing the source under the answer so any sentence can be traced back.
- When it doesn't know
- It says so plainly and offers a person instead of guessing. The thread goes to your inbox or team chat with a summary of what the customer wants, and the unanswered question lands in a report so the gap can be closed in the knowledge base.
- Data and GDPR
- Conversations are processed on EU servers and models are called through European endpoints. Nothing you send is used to train a public model, a data processing agreement is signed before the build starts, and you set how long chat logs are kept.
- EU AI Act
- Article 50 has applied since 2 August 2026 and it covers any company running a bot that talks to customers, one-person businesses included. Four things in practice: the bot says it is an AI at first contact, its purpose is described, conversations are logged, and there is an obvious route to a human. All four ship as standard.
Tech stack: OpenAI / GPT · Anthropic / Claude · Google Gemini · RAG on your documents · Vector DB (pgvector / Pinecone) · Website widget · WhatsApp Business API · Messenger / Instagram API · Telegram Bot API · Node.js / Express