AI chat assistants on your website, Messenger or WhatsApp: when do they help enquiries, and when do they hurt?
An AI chatbot helps when it answers repeat questions, collects the details of an enquiry, books appointments and works out of hours. It hurts when it hides the human, gives wrong answers or collects data with no clear purpose. Connect it to your enquiry process and CRM, measure the share of conversations that become enquiries, handovers to a person and response time, and bear in mind that from 2 August 2026 the AI Act requires chatbots to say they are AI, unless that is obvious from the context.