Start from a template
The six industry templates, exactly what each one pre-fills, and how to replace the sample content with your own.
A template creates a working chatbot in one click, pre-filled with a persona, a starter FAQ, sample documents, and a set of enabled actions. It is the fastest way to see a realistic conversation before you have written any content of your own.
Open Chatbots → New from template and pick one.
The templates
| Template | Bot persona |
|---|---|
| Restaurant Assistant | Host — menu, hours, reservations |
| Hotel Concierge | Concierge — rooms, amenities, stays |
| Salon Booking Assistant | Booking assistant — services, slots |
| Clinic Patient Assistant | Patient assistant — visits, intake |
| Law Firm Intake Assistant | Intake assistant — matters, consults |
| Automotive Service Assistant | Service assistant — repairs, quotes |
What a template pre-fills
Every template seeds the same five things:
- The chatbot itself — named after the template, with its own bot name,
greeting, and system prompt.
- A starter FAQ source — a set of question-and-answer pairs for that
industry, added as one FAQ knowledge source.
- Sample documents — a few manual-text sources such as a service list or a
policy page.
- Suggested questions — the starter chips shown in the widget before the
visitor types anything.
- Actions —
capture_lead,book_appointment, andescalate_to_humanareenabled. See Actions overview.
Lead capture is switched on for template chatbots.
The seeded knowledge is sample content, not your business's information. Every seeded source is titled … (sample — edit me) and its first line says so. A template chatbot will confidently quote sample opening hours and sample prices until you replace them. Edit or delete every sample source before you embed the widget on a live site.
What counts against your limits
A template creates one chatbot and several knowledge sources at once, so it is checked against both your plan's chatbot limit and its knowledge-source limit before anything is created. If either would be exceeded, nothing is created and the request fails — you are not left with a half-seeded bot.
The seeded sources are processed by the same background worker as any other source, so they show as processing for a short while before the bot can answer from them. See Knowledge base overview.
Diverging from a template
Nothing about a template is sticky. Once created, the chatbot is an ordinary chatbot:
- Edit or delete the sample sources under Knowledge.
- Rewrite the system prompt and greeting under
- Turn actions off, or configure them against your own systems, under
There is no link back to the template, and updating a template later does not change chatbots already created from it.
Where to go next
- Create a chatbot — start from scratch instead.
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