Overview
What is Watson Assistant’s visual builder?
Watson Assistant’s chatbot builder simplifies chatbot creation with reusable components. Our pre-built templates and integrations allow you to create and customize a user action, such as pay your bill, in a few simple steps, and the drag-and-drop interface allows users to re-prioritize steps within an action with a click of a mouse.
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Benefits
Build your AI chatbot in minutes
Launch a chatbot with no coding skills
Building chatbots has never been easier. Train with only a few questions or use our chatbot templates today.
Scale your support teams for better experiences
Reusable components allow businesses to create consistent customer experiences across the globe in a fraction of the time.
Enable rapid iteration with easy-to-use interfaces
Our low-code and no-code capabilities promote agile workflows, encouraging dialogue experimentation for the ideal support experience.
Deliver the right response with confidence
Our disambiguation feature prompts for clarification if your user’s request isn’t clear, ensuring that your chatbot communicates with accuracy.
Go beyond intent-based dialogue
Our seamless integrations and extensions allow users to complete different tasks within our interface easily.
Reduce errors with preview mode
You can preview the conversation as your users will experience it — with advanced debugging capabilities to fix problems quickly.
Features
Search existing content
Find up-to-date answers in any existing content, from knowledge bases to websites, with Watson Discovery.
Cross-channel automation
Easily connect your chatbot platform to existing live agent tools to route customers to the right people in real time.
Handoff to live agents
Deploy anywhere your customers communicate with your business, including web, app, phone or messaging channels.
Use cases
Customer service
Customer service
Enhance the customer experience by connecting potential clients to customer support teams quickly
Banking
Banking
Streamline the payments user experience by allowing account holders to pay all or parts of their bill
Healthcare
Healthcare
Support medical providers by offering easier access to contact information and appointment bookings
Insurance
Insurance
Educate policyholders with better pathways to policy and claims information to ensure timely reimbursement
Testimonial
We found Watson Assistant to be easy to use and very scalable. The interface allows anyone to create a chatbot, while also enabling our developers to leverage the full power of Watson.
Joan Francy
CEO
AdMed
Frequently asked questions
Does Watson Assistant have any available APIs?
Yes, Watson Assistant has available webhooks and APIs to enable you to export chat logs for analysis, allowing your teams to optimize your chatbot for customer outcomes. Connect in one click with systems like Salesforce, Zendesk, Intercom, and more. Alternatively, you can create your own extension with our Open API specifications.
What is the best way to get started with a visual bot builder interface?
Check out our documentation to find a tutorial on how to create your first chatbot using Watson Assistant’s visual chatbot builder.
Can I deploy my chatbot to multiple channels, such as phone, web and social?
Yes, you can deliver an omnichannel experience to your customers, deploying to apps, such as Facebook Messenger, Intercom, Slack, SMS with Twilio, WhatsApp, Hubspot, Wordpress, and more. Our seamless integrations can route customers to your telephony and interactive voice response (IVR) systems when they need them.
Are there chatbot templates to use?
Yes, you can use Watson Assistant action templates to build your first chatbot today. They are pre-built, customizable chatbot templates, which create chatbots quickly and easily. Action templates automate chatbot creation by identifying common user cases, such as support ticket requests or answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs). See the prebuilt templates documentation to get started.
What are common chatbot use cases?
Customer care is the most common chatbot use case. Chatbots are helpful to both product- and service-based companies looking to provide a superior user experience by to answering customer questions, guiding customers through simple troubleshooting, and connecting customers to the resources they need.
They are also often used by sales teams looking for a tool to support lead generation. Chatbots can quickly validate potential leads based on the questions they ask, then pass them on to sales representatives to close the deal.
Chatbots can even be used in e-commerce by acting as a digital sales clerk, akin to what customers would experience at a small business shop. E-commerce chatbots can provide a personalized shopping experience that converts passive website visitors into engaged prospects.