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AI chatbots built in Auckland,
trained on your business.

Custom AI agents that answer customer questions around the clock and help your team find answers in your own documents. Built on your content, connected to your tools and set up to hand over to a person whenever it matters.

  • Customer service bots
  • Internal knowledge bots
  • Human handover
  • Intercom & CRM
  • Testing & guardrails

Answers in seconds,
not tomorrow morning.

What is a custom AI chatbot?

A custom AI chatbot is an assistant trained on your own content, like your website, help articles, policies and product information, so it answers questions accurately in your brand's voice. Unlike a generic chatbot, it connects to your tools, follows rules you set and hands the conversation to a person when it can't help.

Customers ask the same questions again and again, often after hours. Staff dig through shared drives for the same policy or process. A well-built AI agent answers both from your own content, so people get a useful reply straight away instead of waiting.

We build two kinds. Customer-facing agents sit on your website, in Intercom or another chat tool, answering questions, qualifying leads and collecting enquiry details. Internal knowledge bots live where your team already works and answer questions from your handbooks, policies and process docs.

Every bot we build knows its limits. It sticks to content you approve, says when it doesn't know and hands over to a real person with the full conversation attached. Behind the scenes, our developers connect it to your CRM and help desk with custom integrations.

Not sure a chatbot is the right first step? Start with an AI strategy and audit.

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See how it answers.

A scripted customer-facing agent. Every answer comes from content on this site, links to where it came from and hands over to a person when you ask.
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Verum assistant Answers from this site

Kia ora! Ask me something and I’ll answer from this site’s content.

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Answers come from

  • Service pages
  • FAQs
  • Partner pages
  • Contact details
  • Human handover

A scripted demo. Your agent is trained on your own content and tested before launch.

Everything it takes.
Under one roof.

Strategy, build and ongoing tuning from one in-house Auckland team, with a person always in the loop.
  • Website & customer service agents

    An AI agent on your website or chat tool that answers common questions about your products, services and policies in your brand's voice. It collects enquiry details and sends qualified leads to your team.

    • Website chat agent
    • Lead capture and qualification
    • Brand voice and tone
    • Website, chat and email channels
  • Internal knowledge bots

    A private assistant trained on your handbooks, policies, process docs and past answers. Staff get a straight answer with a link to the source, instead of hunting through shared drives.

    • Content audit and clean-up
    • Answers with source links
    • Access by team or role
    • Slack, Teams or intranet access
  • Handover to real people

    When a question needs a person, or a customer asks for one, the bot passes the conversation to your team with the full history attached. Nobody repeats themselves. After hours, it takes details and sets clear expectations for a follow-up.

    • Handover rules and triggers
    • Full conversation history
    • After-hours capture
    • Routing to the right team
  • Intercom, CRM & help desk integrations

    We connect your agent to the tools behind it, so it can look up an order, log a ticket or add a lead to your CRM. As an Intercom partner, we can set up Intercom's built-in AI or connect a custom agent to it.

    • Intercom
    • CRMs like HubSpot
    • Help desk and ticketing
    • Order and booking lookups
  • Guardrails & testing

    Before launch, we test your bot against real questions, tricky edge cases and attempts to push it off-topic. It sticks to approved content, steers clear of topics you rule out and admits when it doesn't know.

    • Approved knowledge sources
    • Topic and tone rules
    • Test question sets
    • Privacy and data handling review
  • Monitoring & improvement

    After launch, we review conversations, spot questions the bot couldn't answer and fill the gaps in its knowledge. You also see what customers ask most, which is useful input for your website and FAQs.

    • Conversation reviews
    • Knowledge gap reports
    • Content updates
    • Regular reporting

Is an AI chatbot right for your business?
Here’s how to tell.

  • Your team answers the same questions every day.
  • Customers get in touch after hours and wait until morning for a reply.
  • Staff waste time hunting for policies, processes or product details.
  • You use Intercom, a CRM or a help desk and want it to do more of the work.
  • You want AI that knows when to hand over to a person.

How we work.
Step by step.

Clear stages, clear goals and no surprises, from the first coffee to the results.
  1. Step 1

    We discover.

    We look at the questions your customers and team ask most, where the answers live today and which tools the bot needs to connect to.

  2. Step 2

    We plan.

    We agree what the bot should and shouldn't do, the content it learns from, the tone it uses and when it hands over to a person.

  3. Step 3

    We build.

    We prepare your content, build and connect the agent, then test it against real questions before it goes anywhere near a customer.

  4. Step 4

    We evaluate.

    Once it's live, we review conversations, fill knowledge gaps and tune its answers, so it gets more useful over time.

Custom AI agents & chatbots,
answered.

Straight answers to what people ask us most. Anything else, just ask.

  • How much does a custom AI chatbot cost in NZ?

    The cost of a custom AI chatbot in NZ depends on how much content the bot learns from, how many systems it connects to and whether it serves customers, staff or both. We scope it with you first and recommend the simplest setup that does the job, so get a quote to find out more.

  • How long does it take to build an AI chatbot?

    The time it takes to build an AI chatbot depends on the scope: a focused bot answering from a tidy set of content launches much sooner than one connected to several systems. Preparing content and testing often take longer than the build itself, and we'll give you a timeline once we've seen what's involved.

  • Is an AI chatbot safe for customer data?

    An AI chatbot can be safe for customer data when it's set up with privacy in mind. We limit what the bot can see, choose providers with clear terms on how your data is stored and whether it's used for training, and set rules so it doesn't ask for or share sensitive information. Your obligations under the Privacy Act 2020 still apply, so we help you make those choices with your eyes open.

  • Do AI chatbots make things up?

    AI chatbots can make things up, which is why we ground every bot in content you approve and test it hard before launch. Ours are set up to say when they don't know and hand over to a person, rather than guess.

  • Can an AI chatbot work with Intercom?

    Yes. Verum is an Intercom partner, so we can set up Intercom's built-in AI or connect a custom agent to your Intercom inbox, with handover to your team inside the same tool.

  • What's the difference between a chatbot and an AI agent?

    A chatbot answers questions, while an AI agent can also take actions, like looking up an order, booking an appointment or updating your CRM. Most of what we build sits somewhere in between, with actions limited to the ones you approve.

Let’s grab
a coffee.

Tell us where you want to be. We’ll show you how to get there, with a plan built for your business, not a template.

Abdullah Alacozai

Talk to AbdullahManaging Director, 17 Albert Street

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