Your docs in, straight answers out

An AI chatbot that answers from your docs — and shows its sources.

Upload your help docs, paste your FAQ, or point it at your website. Lane.Chat indexes everything and answers customer questions with a citation to the exact page it used. When it can't find the answer, it hands off to a human instead of guessing.

From a folder of PDFs to a working chatbot in one afternoon.

No training runs, no fine-tuning, no ML team. If you can upload a file, you can do this.

01

Feed it your content

Upload PDFs, Markdown, or DOCX. Paste your FAQ as articles. Or hand it a URL and let the crawler read your site.

02

It indexes automatically

Every document is chunked and indexed the moment you hit save. You can see the status per article — chunks, tokens, ready to answer.

03

AI answers, with a citation

Flip on AI auto-reply and the bot starts answering visitor questions — from your content only, with the source attached to each reply.

04

Humans catch the rest

Ask something the docs don't cover and the bot says so and pulls in your team — same thread, no dead ends, no "please email support."

The knowledge base: articles, file uploads, and crawled URLs in one place.
The knowledge base: articles, file uploads, and crawled URLs in one place.
Each article shows its index status — chunks, tokens, ready to answer.
Each article shows its index status — chunks, tokens, ready to answer.
One toggle turns on AI auto-reply for the whole workspace.
One toggle turns on AI auto-reply for the whole workspace.

A chatbot you can't check is a chatbot you can't trust.

Generic AI chatbots answer everything, including things that are not true. Ask one about your refund policy and it produces a confident paragraph — sometimes yours, sometimes an invention. Your customer can't tell the difference, and neither can you until the complaint lands in your inbox.

Lane.Chat answers only from the content you gave it, and pins the source under every reply. Your team can audit any answer in one click; customers can open the policy and read it themselves. And when the docs don't cover a question, the bot says so and brings in a human — that's the whole trick.

Read why AI support needs citations →

Generic chatbot vs. a chatbot trained on your data

Same customer question, very different failure modes.

Generic AI chatbot Lane.Chat, trained on your data
Where answers come from The model's training data — roughly, the whole internet Your docs, FAQ, and website. Nothing else.
When the answer isn't in the docs Improvises something plausible-sounding Says it doesn't know and hands the thread to your team
Can you verify an answer? No — you'd have to guess where it came from Every reply cites the page it used
Updating what it knows Rewrite prompts, retrain, hope Edit the article, hit save — reindexed in seconds
Setup Prompt engineering and crossed fingers Upload files, flip one toggle

Train it once. Answer everywhere.

The knowledge base is shared. The same indexed content backs your website widget, your Telegram bot, and whatever you build on the API — update an article once and every channel knows.

Before you upload your first doc.

Can I train a chatbot on my own website?
Yes. Point Lane.Chat's crawler at your site and it reads and indexes your pages. You can also upload files (PDF, Markdown, TXT, DOCX) or write articles directly in the editor — most teams end up mixing all three.
Do I need to know how to code to build a custom AI chatbot?
No. Uploading docs and turning on AI replies all happens in a dashboard. The only "code" step is pasting a two-line snippet into your site to add the chat widget — the same copy-paste as installing Google Analytics.
How is this different from just using ChatGPT?
ChatGPT answers from its general training and doesn't know your business. Lane.Chat answers only from the content you upload, and cites the source under each reply. It also lives where your customers already are — your website and Telegram — and hands off to your team when it gets stuck.
What happens when the chatbot doesn't know the answer?
It says so and routes the conversation to a human — in the same thread, so the customer never repeats themselves. You can tune when that happens with Flows: certain keywords, office hours, VIP customers.
How much does a custom AI chatbot cost?
The free plan includes the knowledge base and AI replies — enough to run a real chatbot on a small site. Paid plans add usage and seats as you grow. No sales call either way.
What file formats can I upload?
PDF, Markdown, TXT, and DOCX, plus articles you write in the built-in editor and pages crawled from a URL. Update a doc and the index updates with it — no retraining step.

Your docs already know the answers. Put them to work.

Upload a file, flip the toggle, watch it answer. Free plan, no card, about five minutes.

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