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AskAI vs. building your own website AI
With today’s AI models, a demo chatbot takes an afternoon. Running one in front of real visitors, on a website that keeps changing, is a different project.
| Building it yourself | AskAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first answer | Days to weeks for a solid first version | Paste one line, verify, done |
| Learning the site | Write and maintain a crawler that respects robots.txt, sitemaps and noindex | Built in |
| Freshness | Build change detection and re-indexing | New, changed and removed pages tracked automatically |
| Widget | Build a chat UI that works on every layout and phone | Docks or floats, isolated from your styles, tiny loader |
| Bots, spam, abuse | Design rate limits, human checks, spam filters and monitoring | Built in, with an automatic shield |
| AI usage costs | Pay per use; a busy day or an attack can surprise you | One monthly price |
| Control | Total — it is your code | Exclusions, your own answers, page checks, on/off |
General comparison of product categories, not of any named product. Individual products vary.
When building your own makes sense
If the assistant is your product, needs to act inside your own systems (accounts, orders, bookings), or you have a team to run it, building can be right. AskAI answers from your public website and captures leads; it does not act inside your back-office systems.
The hidden work
- Keeping answers in sync with a website that changes every week
- Making the chat behave on someone else’s theme, phone sizes and page builders
- Stopping prompt-injection attempts and off-topic use
- Watching AI spend so a bot cannot run up the bill
- Handling leads, consent wording and email delivery
Put an assistant on the website you already have
One line of code. CA$10/month launch price. Office AI included. No card needed. Then CA$10/month launch price.