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Automated chat assistants for website, text and social messages

The short answer

Monvell builds automated chat assistants that answer written conversations on your website, by text message and in social inboxes. They answer questions, collect inquiry details and book appointments in writing, while voice assistants handle phone calls.

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At a glance
  • Chat widget design and placement
  • Text and social inbox connections
  • Knowledge base and answer limits
  • Inquiry and qualification questions

What does a chat assistant do?

Many customers would rather type than call, especially when they are at work, comparing options late at night or just have a quick question. A chat assistant answers those messages right away with accurate information about your business, then moves the conversation toward a next step: booking, a quote request or a handoff to your team.

It works across the places people write to you: the chat window on your website, texts to your business number, and messages on Facebook, Instagram and your Google Business Profile.

Written conversations also have an advantage over calls: they leave a clear record. Every question a visitor asks tells you something about what your website does not explain well, and those patterns often lead to better service pages and fewer repeat questions for your team.

What we set up

The assistant is built around your services and the questions people actually ask.

  • Website chat widget designed to match your site
  • Text message and social inbox connections
  • Knowledge base from your services, pricing rules you approve and policies
  • Inquiry questions that collect what your team needs
  • Booking inside the conversation
  • Handoff to a person with the full conversation attached
  • Conversation history saved on the customer record

Keeping answers accurate

A chat assistant is only useful if it is right. We give it a defined set of information to work from, set clear limits on what it will discuss, and instruct it to say it does not know and hand off rather than guess. It identifies itself as an automated assistant from the first message.

We test it with real questions from your inbox and website before launch, including off-topic and tricky ones, and your team approves the answers.

We also set expectations inside the conversation. If a person will reply during business hours, the assistant says so plainly, so nobody waits on a response that is not coming tonight.

Measuring what it does

We track how many conversations it handles, how many become bookings or inquiries, how many go to your team and why. Questions it could not answer become new entries in its knowledge, so it covers more over time.

Your team sees every conversation on the customer record and can step into any chat in progress.

Signs it is time to fix this

Website visitors leave without contacting you because calling is the only option.
Texts and social messages sit for hours or days before a reply.
Your team answers the same written questions over and over.
You get inquiries late at night that are cold by morning.

What is included

  • Chat widget design and placement
  • Text and social inbox connections
  • Knowledge base and answer limits
  • Inquiry and qualification questions
  • Booking and handoff setup
  • Testing with real questions
  • Conversation review and updates
Related services

Often paired with this service.

All Automation services
AutomationVoice assistantsAutomated phone assistants that answer calls, collect details, book appointments and hand off to your team.Read more CommunicationsLive chat responseA chat on your website with a response standard, answered by your team, an assistant or both.Read more AutomationLead routingSend every new lead to the right person, location or pipeline in seconds, with its details attached.Read more AutomationCall handling and qualificationScreen inbound calls against your own criteria so the right callers reach the right people.Read more AutomationAutomated follow-upTimed text, email and call sequences for new inquiries, open quotes and past customers.Read more AutomationReview response draftingA drafted reply to every new review in your voice, sent to your team for approval.Read more
Questions

Chat assistants: common questions.

All questions

Live chat response, under Communications, covers who answers website chat and how fast, which can be your team, the assistant or both. Chat assistants are the automated assistant itself and also cover text and social messages.

Only what you approve. Some businesses share starting prices or ranges, and others prefer the assistant to collect details and send a quote request to the team.

Yes. Your team can step into any conversation, and the assistant hands off automatically when a customer asks for a person or a topic is outside its scope.

Insights

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