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Quick Start: Your First Bot in 5 Minutes

This guide gets you from zero to a working chatbot as fast as possible. By the end, you’ll have an AI bot trained on your website content, ready to answer questions.

What you’ll need: A website with content you want your bot to learn from. That’s it.

Step 1: Sign up

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Go to ChatbotIQ and sign in with Google or email (you’ll get a one-time passcode — no password needed).

When prompted, create a workspace. This is your home base where all your bots, sources, and team members live.

Step 2: Add a knowledge source

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  1. Click Knowledge Base in the sidebar.
  2. Click ”+ Add Source”.
  3. Choose Website and enter the URL of the site you want your bot to learn from.
  4. ChatbotIQ discovers all the pages on that site automatically. Review the list and start the crawl.
  5. Wait for the status to change to Ready. For a small site (under 100 pages), this usually takes a minute or two.

Tip: Start with a smaller site for your first test. You can always add more sources later.

Step 3: Create a bot

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  1. Click Bots in the sidebar.
  2. Click “Create Bot”.
  3. Give it a name — something like “Support Bot” or “Docs Assistant”.
  4. Select your knowledge source.
  5. Pick an AI model. GPT-5 Mini is a great default — fast, accurate, and cost-effective.
  6. The wizard will suggest a personality based on your content. You can tweak it or accept the suggestion.
  7. Click Create.

Step 4: Test in the Playground

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  1. Click “Design & Deploy” on your new bot.
  2. You’ll see a live preview of your chat widget. Try asking a question about your website’s content.
  3. Check that the bot answers correctly and includes source citations.
  4. Open the Debug panel at the bottom to see retrieval scores and which content chunks were used.

Looking good? If the answers are off, try lowering the RAG Score Threshold in bot settings, or check if your source finished indexing.

Step 5: Embed on your website

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  1. Switch to the Embed tab in the Playground.
  2. Set your bot to Public mode (this is required for it to work on external websites).
  3. Click “Copy Code” to copy the embed snippet.
  4. Paste it before the </body> tag in your website’s HTML.

That’s it — your AI chatbot is live!

Visit your website, and you’ll see the chat launcher in the bottom-right corner. Click it and start chatting.

What’s next?

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Now that your bot is running, here are some things you might want to do: