Build a chatbot that answers questions about your product catalog

Customers ask questions in chat and AI searches your product catalog to give accurate, detailed answers.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsAI Chatbots & AssistantsKnowledge Base & RAGDocument Processing & OCRSpreadsheet & Database OpsFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveMistral AISupabase
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The problem it solves

Customers and staff constantly ask the same questions about your products, and looking up specs, prices, or availability one by one eats into your day. Keeping a chatbot's answers accurate as your catalog changes is hard if you have to update it by hand.

Who it fits

A retail, wholesale, or e-commerce business that wants self-service answers about its product catalog.

How it works

  1. New or updated product files are picked up from Google Drive
  2. The content is split into chunks and converted into searchable vectors
  3. The vectors are stored in a Supabase database
  4. When a customer asks a question in chat, AI searches the catalog for the best matches
  5. AI replies with structured product details and remembers the conversation
What you get

Customers who get catalog answers without waiting on staff

Customers can ask about your products in chat and get detailed, accurate answers pulled straight from your catalog.

What you get

A chatbot that answers product questions with accurate, up-to-date catalog details.

What you need

A Google Drive account, a Mistral AI API key, and a Supabase database.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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