Guides

Everything we know about running a chatbot that works.

Four guides, each a full treatment of a subject rather than an introduction to it, with the shorter articles underneath going deeper on specific questions. Start with whichever describes the problem you have.

None of it is gated. We build the software, so the fastest way for us to be useful is to be straight about how this actually goes.

AI customer support

AI customer support, honestly described

What a bot genuinely takes off a support queue, what it should never touch, how the handoff to a person should work, and how to tell within a month whether it is earning its place.

Read the full guide · What Alma handles without a human

Lead capture and qualification

Turning website visitors into leads

The four questions, the order they go in, when to stop asking, how to answer the price question without deflecting, and where the lead has to land for anybody to follow up.

Read the full guide · Chatbot builders by industry

Building and deploying

Building a website chatbot that is worth having

Deciding the one job it does, writing the conversation, curating the knowledge, testing it with real messages instead of the happy path, and the month-two maintenance nobody plans for.

Read the full guide · Prebuilt chatbot templates

Knowledge, measurement and trust

What it knows, and what you read back

Curating a knowledge base instead of dumping into one, where wrong answers actually come from, the four numbers worth reading, and what customers are entitled to know about the transcript.

Read the full guide · Knowledge sources and reporting

Looking for something specific rather than a guide? The full article archive lists everything in date order.