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An AI assistant for your business

Not the kind that sits on your laptop and drafts your emails. This one sits on your business's front desk, answers your customers around the clock in their own language, takes the booking, records the complaint, and passes anything it should not decide to a person on your team.

First, which kind of assistant this is

The phrase "AI assistant" covers two very different things, and it is worth being clear which one you are looking at before you read further.

A personal AI assistantA business AI assistant
Who it helpsYou, at your deskYour customers, on your channels
Typical jobDraft, summarise, researchAnswer, qualify, book, escalate
Where it livesAn app or browser tab you openYour WhatsApp, Instagram, website and phone line
Who talks to itOnly youAnyone who messages your business
Knows your prices?Only if you paste them in each timeYes, from a knowledge base you set once

Replio is the second kind. If you want something to summarise your inbox or write a first draft for you, a general chat assistant is the better tool and we would say so. If you are losing customers because nobody replied to a DM at 11pm on a Saturday, keep reading.

It answers your customers, from your own knowledge

Paste your website or upload a price list and that becomes what the assistant knows. It then answers questions about your prices, policies, stock, hours and delivery the way you would, in seconds, at any hour, in more than 50 languages, detecting each customer's language automatically. Nothing is invented from the open internet, and when a question falls outside what it knows, it says so and offers a person instead of guessing.

Depending on what you need most, the same assistant is doing customer service, running a customer care desk, or working as an AI sales agent. It is one agent and one knowledge base, not three products.

It runs the front desk, not just the chat

It works alongside your team, not instead of it

Every conversation from every channel lands in one shared live inbox. Any team member can take over mid-thread, with the full history in front of them, and the assistant steps back until they are done. If your agent writes in English and the customer wrote in Arabic or French, it translates both directions inside the thread, so nobody needs a second tool open.

Your team can also talk to each other in the same place: internal channels and direct messages, plus voice calls and huddles with an AI recap afterwards, so the decision made on a call does not evaporate the moment it ends.

And it picks up the small recurring jobs

The tasks that are individually trivial and collectively eat a day a week.

What it does not do

Worth saying plainly, because an assistant that overreaches is worse than one with edges.

Every channel your customers already use

WhatsApp on your own number, Instagram DMs, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, your website through the chat widget or the WordPress plugin, and your phone line. One knowledge base answers on all of them, so a customer gets the same answer wherever they ask. Replio is a verified Meta Tech Provider, so the Meta channels connect through official APIs rather than a workaround that can break or get your account restricted.

Pricing

There is a free tier, a WhatsApp-only plan at $70/month, and full multi-channel plans at $150/month (Starter), $300/month (Pro) and $450/month (Business), with Enterprise for larger teams. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial and no card is required to begin. Instagram, Messenger, Telegram and website chat carry no per-message fee; on WhatsApp you connect your own number and pay Meta's per-message rates directly, with no markup from Replio.

Getting started

Paste your website or upload a price list, connect one channel, and read the first few conversations to check the tone. Adjust the knowledge base where it is not quite you yet. No code, no developer, usually live the same afternoon.

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Frequently asked questions

What is an AI assistant for business?
It is software that handles the repetitive front half of dealing with customers: answering questions from your own prices and policies, qualifying leads, taking bookings, logging complaints and escalating anything that needs a person. It is different from a personal AI assistant, which helps you with your own desk work. A business assistant serves the people who message your business, on the channels they already use.
How is this different from ChatGPT?
A general chat assistant is a tool you open and talk to yourself. Replio sits on your WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Telegram, website and phone line, and talks to your customers on your behalf, answering only from a knowledge base you control. If what you actually want is help drafting or summarising your own work, a general assistant is the better fit.
Will it make things up about my business?
It answers from the knowledge you give it: your website, price list, policies and FAQs. When a question falls outside that, it says so and offers to pass the customer to your team rather than guessing. You can read every conversation in the shared inbox and correct the knowledge base at any time.
Can my team still take over?
Yes, and that is the intended design. Every conversation lands in a shared live inbox where anyone on your team can take over mid-thread with the full history. The assistant steps back as soon as a person replies, and the customer stays in the same chat on the same channel.
Does it need a developer to set up?
No. You paste your website address or upload a price list to build the knowledge base, connect a channel, and it starts answering. There is no code involved and most businesses are live the same afternoon.
How much does it cost?
There is a free tier, a WhatsApp-only plan at $70/month, and full multi-channel plans from $150/month (Starter) through $300/month (Pro) and $450/month (Business), with Enterprise available. Every plan begins with a free 14-day trial and no card is required to start.

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