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Add an AI support chat that knows when to get a human
“Customers ask the same questions all day on chat or WhatsApp.”
An AI assistant can answer common questions from your own help content and hand off to a person for anything else. Say it's AI, and never let it make up policies.
Fix it yourself in 3 steps
- Collect your FAQ, policies, prices and order info.
- Set up a chat assistant that answers only from that content and escalates the rest.
- Read conversations daily and add missing answers to your FAQ.
Copy this prompt
Write rules for a customer support assistant for [business]. Answer only from this content: [FAQ, policies]. Say you're an AI assistant. Hand off to a human for refunds, complaints, account changes, or anything not covered. Never invent policies or prices. List 10 test questions including tricky ones. Stop there.
Fill in the [brackets]. Each prompt says when the AI should stop, so it doesn't wander off.
Agents people used for this: n8n, Lindy, Gemini, Grok Bot.
Inspired by real examples collected at agentusecases.ai.
📚 12 real stories of people doing this with AI agents
- Answer WhatsApp customer questions and escalate to humans · n8n
- Answer customer questions and escalate to humans · custom-built or unnamed agent
- Answer customer support conversations with a Zendesk agent · custom-built or unnamed agent
- Generate customer-service agents from a URL that book appointments · custom-built or unnamed agent
- Manage customer enquiries from Telegram · n8n
- Power a restaurant customer service chatbot backend · Make
- Resolve bank customer chats with an AI chatbot · Gemini
- Run 24/7 WhatsApp support and track application status · n8n
- Run a customer support company end to end · Grok Bot
- Run business WhatsApp customer messages with an agent · n8n
- Spin up a customer-support agent from a prompt · Lindy
- Turn a business website into a WhatsApp support agent · n8n
Collected at AgentUseCases.ai.
AI drafts, you approve: nothing gets posted, sent, spent or published without a person. Tell customers when they're talking to an AI.
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