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Quick Start: paste your website, get a working chatbot
Quick Start builds your first chatbot from your website address: a name, a welcome message, a starting prompt and your page as knowledge, ready in minutes.
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A blank chatbot builder is a hard place to start. You have to decide what to call it, what it should say first, how it should behave and what it should know, before you've seen it answer a single question. Quick Start does that first draft for you. Paste your website address, say what the chatbot is for, and Studio fills in the rest so you can go live in under 5 minutes and tune it afterwards.
What's new
Quick Start is a two-step guide for creating a chatbot.
Step 1: Create your chatbot. Paste your website URL and pick what the chatbot should do: Capture leads, Customer support, Answer FAQs or All of the above.
Step 2: Review your chatbot. While you watch, Studio reads your site and prepares:
- A chatbot name based on your business name, such as "Acme Assistant".
- Your brand colour and logo, picked up from your website (see automatic brand import).
- A welcome message written for your business.
- A behaviour prompt written for your business and the goal you picked. Click Regenerate if you'd like another version.
Everything is editable before you continue. Click Create chatbot and Studio creates the chatbot, sets up a new knowledge base with the page you entered, and opens your new chatbot in the builder.
How to use it
- New accounts are taken to Quick Start right after sign-up. If you don't have a chatbot yet, you can also open Chatbots and click Quick Start (recommended).
- Paste your website URL, choose what the chatbot should do, and click Continue.
- Check the chatbot name, brand colour, welcome message and behaviour prompt. Change anything you like.
- Click Create chatbot.
- In the builder, try a few questions in the test chat, then publish and add the embed code to your site.
Good to know
- It's a starting point. Quick Start gives you a sensible first version. You can change every detail afterwards in the builder.
- Add more of your site for better answers. Quick Start adds the page you entered as knowledge. To cover the rest of your site, import more pages from your sitemap with bulk website import, and add documents or FAQs.
- Allow your domain before you embed. The website chat only loads on domains in your organization's Allowed Domains list. Add your domain there first; see domain allowlist.
- Chatbot limits still apply. Quick Start counts as creating a chatbot, so it follows your plan's chatbot limit.