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We Built a Chatbot Without an LLM: Here’s How It Works
When you hear "chatbot" in 2026, the obvious architecture is something like:
For one of our projects, we deliberately didn't do that.
The chatbot needed to answer questions about things like:
prices;
opening hours;
appointments;
service availability;
business policies.
For those kinds of questions, we cared more about predictability than creativity.
If the business says:
We only work by appointment.
we don't want a model to turn that into:
Appoint...
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