AI chatbots for business that answer from what is true

Futurelab builds enterprise AI chatbots for customers, employees, field teams and citizens. Each chatbot answers from approved sources with citations, respects who is asking, takes actions in connected systems and hands over to a person. Shipped examples include AI Sachiv for Piramal Foundation, adopted across Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana.

Enterprise AI chatbots

We build AI chatbots for enterprises: grounded in your own documents and data, aware of who is asking, able to act in your systems and quick to hand over to a person. For customers, employees and field teams.

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Trusted by teams at PepsiCo · ITC · SBI · Syngenta

Trusted by teams at

  • PepsiCo
  • ITC
  • SBI
  • Syngenta

Same question, very different answer.

Most chatbots are a website widget with a long prompt. An enterprise chatbot is built differently in five places. Switch between them and see what changes.

Knowledge: Answers from your sources

Grounded in approved policies, product data and documents, with the source shown, instead of whatever the model remembers from the internet.

Access: Knows who is asking

Signs people in and respects permissions, so a customer, an employee and a manager each see only what they are allowed to.

Actions: Gets things done

Checks an order, raises a ticket, books a slot or updates a record in your systems, rather than only describing how to.

Handover: Hands over cleanly

Recognises when it is out of its depth and passes the conversation to a person, with the history attached.

Oversight: Measured and improved

Every conversation is logged and reviewed, with dashboards for resolution, handovers and the questions it could not answer.

We run chatbots in production ourselves.

Futurelab builds and runs its own AI assistants. Client chatbots start from what we learned shipping these; status is shown as it stands today.

ChatEasy: AI-Powered RAG-Indexed Chatbot for Orgs

A chatbot trained on your own documents, so your team always gets accurate answers instantly.

SearchEasy: AI-Powered Knowledge Management System

Keeps what your organisation knows searchable and up to date: the knowledge layer under a good chatbot.

ClientEasy: AI-Powered CRM and Client Management System

An assistant for client teams: tracks interactions, flags risks and suggests next steps.

Already answering questions in the real world.

Two chatbots from our published case studies: one serving citizens across three states, one inside a financial advisory firm.

Piramal Foundation, Public impact and social development

  • AI Sachiv: A citizen-facing AI assistant for programme outreach and service access, built for low-bandwidth, multilingual contexts and improved with field feedback.
  • Multi-state adoption: AI Sachiv was adopted across Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana.
  • A digital public good: The programme became a national use case, positioned as a digital public good.

International Money Matters, Financial planning and advisory

  • Coordination chatbot: Streamlines internal queries, case updates and handoffs between financial planners and operations.
  • Operational coordination: Less friction between planners and support functions, with faster resolution of internal requests and clearer case visibility.
  • Planner time back: Advisory teams reported meaningful time savings on repetitive administrative work.

A chatbot your customers and your risk team both trust.

An enterprise chatbot is worth building when it resolves real questions end to end, takes load off your teams and stays inside your rules.

Questions resolved, not deflected

People get a correct answer or a completed request at any hour, instead of a link to an FAQ page or a queue.

Load off your teams

Support, HR, IT and operations stop answering the same questions every day and focus on the cases that need them.

Safe by design

Permissions, approved sources, review and logging are part of the build, agreed with your security and compliance teams.

Grounded, governed, measured If a chatbot cannot show where an answer came from, who was allowed to see it and how often it gets things right, it is not ready for your customers.

Four chatbots enterprises ask us for.

Each one is scoped to a clear audience and job, connected to the systems it needs and tested on real questions before launch.

Customer service chatbot

Answers and resolves customer questions on your website, app or messaging channels.

  • Orders, accounts, returns and product questions
  • Live lookups in your order and CRM systems
  • Handover to your support team with the history
  • Hindi, English and other languages your customers use

Internal helpdesk chatbot

One place for staff to ask HR, IT, finance and policy questions.

  • Grounded in policies, handbooks and SOPs
  • Answers respect role and location
  • Raises tickets and requests where needed
  • Shows the source for every answer

Field and partner assistant

Answers for sales, field and partner teams on the move.

  • Product, scheme and pricing questions
  • Works on mobile and low bandwidth
  • Available on WhatsApp or in your app
  • Captures what the field is asking about

Public service assistant

Helps citizens and beneficiaries find services and information.

  • Designed for multilingual, low-bandwidth use
  • Plain-language answers from official sources
  • Escalation to human support
  • Built for state-level rollout

From the first question to a chatbot people use.

Four steps, each with a clear output, so you can try the chatbot on real questions before it meets your customers.

  1. Scope the questions

    Collect the real questions people ask, decide which the chatbot should answer, act on or hand over, and agree how success is measured.

    You get: A question set and success measures

  2. Connect the knowledge

    Bring in approved documents and data, connect the systems it needs and set who may see what.

    You get: A working chatbot on your content

  3. Test and tune

    Run it against the question set and with real users, fix wrong or weak answers and tighten the guardrails.

    You get: An evaluation you can show your risk team

  4. Launch and improve

    Go live on your channels with monitoring, handover and a regular review of unanswered questions.

    You get: A live chatbot with owners and reporting

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Frequently asked questions

What makes an enterprise AI chatbot different from a website chatbot?

An enterprise chatbot answers from your approved documents and data with sources, knows who is asking and what they may see, takes actions in your systems, hands over to a person when needed, and is logged and measured. A basic widget usually does none of these.

Can the chatbot use our own documents and data?

Yes. That is the core of the build. We connect approved sources such as policies, product data, manuals and order systems, and the chatbot answers from them, citing where each answer came from.

Which channels can an AI chatbot run on?

Your website or app, Microsoft Teams or Slack for employees, and WhatsApp for customers, partners and field teams. The same knowledge and rules sit behind every channel.

Will the chatbot make things up?

We design against it: the chatbot answers only from retrieved sources, shows them, and says so when the answer is not in the documents. We test it against real questions before launch and review failures afterwards.

How long does an enterprise chatbot take to build?

A focused first version on one audience and a defined set of questions is usually working within a few weeks. Timelines for launch depend on integrations, sign-in and the review your security team needs.

Have you built AI chatbots for real organisations?

Yes. Our published case studies include AI Sachiv, a citizen-facing assistant for Piramal Foundation adopted across Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana, and a coordination chatbot for International Money Matters. We also run our own chatbot product, ChatEasy.

Scope an enterprise chatbot with our team.

Tell us who the chatbot is for and the questions it should answer. We will come back with a practical view of scope, systems and where to start.