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An AI chatbot for your website, on your own data

An AI chatbot on your own data is a chat on your website built to answer only from your products, prices and terms, to name its source with every answer and to hand over when it does not know. Goudbeek builds these chatbots for businesses — webshops and service providers — from Almere, in the style of the site they sit on.

A chatbot that answers from your catalogue, or admits it cannot

The problem was never the chat window. It is that most of them answer from thin air. This one reads your own products, prices and conditions, and links to the page it used.

Which businesses is an AI chatbot for?

  • Webshops where visitors ask about stock, delivery and returns before they buy
  • Sites where the contact form is the only way to ask anything
  • Teams answering the same product questions over email all day

How does a chatbot on your own data work?

  1. 01

    It reads your catalogue, not the internet

    Specifications, stock, prices, delivery times, terms and manuals. Change a price and the answer changes with it, because it is reading the source rather than a copy.

  2. 02

    Every answer points at where it came from

    A link to the product page, the terms or the manual it used. The visitor can check it, and so can you.

  3. 03

    It hands over cleanly

    When a question is outside what it knows, it says so and passes the conversation on with everything already asked, instead of looping the visitor around.

  4. 04

    It fits the site it lives on

    Your type, your colours, your language. On the pages you choose, not bolted onto every corner of the site.

What do you decide about the chatbot?

Written down before anything is built, and changeable afterwards without a rebuild.

  • Which documents and feeds it is allowed to read
  • Which subjects it must refuse and pass to a person
  • Whether it can see order or account data, or only public pages
  • What it does with a conversation once it ends

What happens after go-live?

It goes live on a handful of pages first, with the questions it could not answer collected for you to read. That list shows which sources to add or which limits to move next.

Frequently asked questions about AI chatbots

Is your question not here? Ask it directly: you hear back within one business day.

What is an AI chatbot on your own data?

An AI chatbot on your own data is a chatbot built to answer only from your own sources: products, prices, stock, delivery times, terms and manuals. With every answer it links the page it used, so the visitor and you can check it. Change a price and the answer changes with it, because it reads the source rather than a copy of it. Torn between a chatbot and an agent? Read chatbot or AI agent.

Does the chatbot make answers up?

An AI chatbot on your own data is built not to make answers up. It answers from your catalogue and terms, not from whatever a language model happens to know, and names its source with every answer. When the answer is not in your material, it says so and hands the conversation over. A chatbot that would rather refuse than guess is exactly what you want at the edge of what it knows.

What happens when the chatbot does not know the answer?

When the chatbot does not know the answer, it says so honestly and hands the conversation over, with everything the visitor already asked, so nobody has to start again. The questions it could not answer are collected for you to read. That list shows which sources to add or which limits to move next.

Can the chatbot see order status or customer data?

The chatbot sees order status or customer data only if you want it to. You choose up front whether it may see order or account data, or only your public pages. Access is granted per source, not per system: a chatbot that answers delivery questions gets the delivery terms and the order status, not the rest of your records. How we write that down is on the AI security page.

Does my chatbot fall under the EU AI Act?

The EU AI Act sorts by risk: by what a system does and for whom, not by what it was built with. A chatbot that answers product questions usually does not fall in the heaviest category, but visitors should be able to know they are talking to AI. What applies to you is in the official text; our note on the EU AI Act explains the shape of it.

Will the chatbot fit my website and brand?

Yes, the chatbot fits your website: it gets your type, your colours and your language, and sits on the pages you choose rather than on every corner of the site. If we also build your website, the site and the chatbot land in the same codebase, instead of the chat being bolted onto the side later.

What does an AI chatbot cost?

The price of an AI chatbot depends on the scope: how many sources it reads, whether it needs order or account data and how many pages it sits on. After a short intake you get one fixed price up front, not an open-ended bill. Hosting and maintenance start at €39 a month, and model usage follows the number of conversations. Which factors decide the price is explained in what an AI solution costs.

How long before an AI chatbot goes live?

How long it takes before an AI chatbot goes live depends on how many sources it reads and whether it needs order or account data, so we don't quote a fixed number of weeks. We discuss your timeline in the intake. It goes live on a handful of pages first. There you see how it answers, and we collect the questions it could not answer for you to read. Only then does it go wider on your site.

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