A Chatbot for Your Business in Crayford: When a Widget Is Enough, and When It Is Not
A chatbot can mean a box on a website or an agent that works across your email and WhatsApp. Here is the difference, with a dental practice as the example.
For a chatbot for your business in Crayford, Dean Keating does not sell a chatbot product. He builds AI agents that answer common questions across email, web and WhatsApp and hand anything unusual to a person, installed in the tools you already use, remotely from Horndean, Hampshire. Call or WhatsApp 07418 627304.
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Two different things share one name
A chatbot widget sits on your website and answers whoever opens it. An installed AI agent works behind the scenes across the places your customers already contact you, and passes the awkward ones to you. The first is a product you switch on. The second is work that has to be set up.
A dental practice as the example
The directory lists a dental centre on the High Street. Think of a practice like it: people ask whether it is taking new patients, how to book, what to bring, and where the entrance is. Most of those questions have the same few answers, and the front desk already has its hands full.
An agent could answer those on email, the website and WhatsApp, send confirmations and reminders, and pass a worried or urgent message straight to a person. It should never give clinical advice. Anything about someone's health goes to a human.
What Dean Keating builds
His website describes AI agents installed for you, not handed over. He builds the agent, installs it in the tools you already use, trains your staff and supports it. Among the jobs listed are answering common questions across email, web and WhatsApp, sorting and routing messages, sending updates, confirmations and reminders, and escalating to a person.
It is not an off-the-shelf chatbot product, it is not a course and it does not answer the phone.
When a simple chatbot is enough
If you only have a handful of fixed questions, mostly from your website, and nobody is chasing a booking or a quote afterwards, an off-the-shelf widget may be all you need. It costs you little effort and you can try it yourself.
When you need more
If enquiries arrive on WhatsApp and email as well, if they need following up, or if they need to turn into diary bookings, one widget on one page leaves most of the work undone.
Where he is
He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, and works with Crayford and south-east London businesses remotely. No price is published; the cost follows the free call. He publishes this site, so weigh it against other providers. See also AI receptionists and chatbots.
Contact
Call or WhatsApp Dean Keating on 07418 627304, or email dean@deankeating.com. See the Dean Keating profile on Crayford.co. Websites: ai-agent.deankeating.com and deankeating.com.
About this guide
Crayford.co is published by Dean Keating, who also runs the service described here. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, not in Crayford, and works with Crayford and south-east London businesses remotely. If you want someone in the room, say so on the first call and look at Crayford-based providers too. This guide recommends our own service, so compare it with other providers before you decide.
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