How-To Guides

FAQ Chatbot: How to Build One, With 4 Options Compared
An FAQ chatbot answers common customer questions on a website. This guide compares four ways to build one: a scripted flow, a no-code platform trained on existing content, a helpdesk AI agent, and an OpenAI API build, with steps, costs, and limits for each.

How to Build a Customer Support Chatbot From a Help Center
A click-by-click tutorial for turning a help center into a website chatbot that answers customer questions, declines what it cannot answer, and hands off to your team. Every step follows the current SiteGPT docs.

How to Build a Lead Qualification Chatbot in 7 Steps
A step-by-step guide to building a lead qualification chatbot: set your criteria and score, add them as lead form fields, share a booking link, and route hot leads to sales or a CRM.

How to Build a Booking Chatbot for Appointments (Step-by-Step)
A 7-step guide to building an appointment booking chatbot: the booking tool holds the calendar, and the chatbot answers pre-booking questions, collects leads, and shares the booking link.

Building Custom AI Chatbots With ChatGPT and Claude: How to Build One and Manage It From Claude
Four ways to build a custom AI chatbot with ChatGPT or Claude, then a step-by-step guide to building one on your own content with SiteGPT and managing it from Claude over MCP, with a worked example, common mistakes, and a setup decision table.

How to Build a Lead Generation Chatbot in 7 Steps
A step-by-step guide to building a lead generation chatbot with SiteGPT: train it on buying-stage pages, choose a lead form trigger, add custom fields, and route every lead to email, CSV, or a CRM webhook.

How to Create a Recruitment Chatbot That Pre-Screens Candidates
A recruitment chatbot answers candidate questions on a careers page and collects pre-screening answers for a recruiter. This guide builds one in six steps with SiteGPT and shows which jobs an ATS or recruiting tool keeps.

AI Chatbot Compliance: EU AI Act and US Chatbot Laws (2026)
What the EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA, the FTC Act, and US state chatbot laws require from a customer service chatbot, with the penalty for each and a five-step compliance checklist.

AI Chatbot for Website: How to Choose and Set Up a Website Chatbot (2026)
A website chatbot comes in five types. This guide shows which type fits which situation, what each costs at 500 conversations a month, and how to set one up in six steps.

Chatbot for Small Business: How to Get an Affordable One (2026)
How to get an affordable chatbot for a small business: real monthly and annual costs for Tidio, SiteGPT, Crisp and Tawk, plus a decision matrix and setup steps.

How to Embed ChatGPT in Your Website: 3 Ways That Work
The ChatGPT app cannot be embedded in a website, but a chat that runs on an OpenAI model can. This guide compares three routes: the OpenAI API with your own chat window, a no-code chatbot trained on your content, and OpenAI ChatKit, with steps, costs in messages, and a decision tree.

AI Chatbot Trained on Your Data: How to Train One in 7 Steps
An AI chatbot trained on your data answers from your own pages and files. This guide covers the seven steps: listing questions, gathering and cleaning content, structuring it for chunking, loading it into a tool, testing, and retraining. It also compares Chatbase, SiteGPT, and DocsBot on entry plans.

Free WordPress Chatbot: 7 Best Free Chatbot Plugins (2026)
The best free WordPress chatbot is WPBot, a native plugin with free FAQ menus and AI on your own key. This guide ranks seven free options on WordPress plugin directory data and vendor pricing read on 16 October 2026, shows what each free tier covers, and what the first upgrade costs, from $39 to $468 a year.
