Bandbox came to us with a specific problem: 300+ orders per day, 12 outlets, and a management team drowning in WhatsApp messages. Customers asked for pickup slots, garment status, pricing, and outlet locations — all day, all night, including Sundays when no staff were available. The previous approach was to hire more support staff. The real solution was to replace that entire category of repetitive communication with an AI agent that knows everything Bandbox knows.
We built their WhatsApp AI agent using n8n for workflow orchestration, the WhatsApp Business Cloud API for message handling, and OpenAI GPT-4o for natural language understanding and response generation. The agent identifies the intent behind every message — new order, status check, pricing query, complaint — and routes it appropriately. For new orders, it collects pickup address, garment count, and preferred time slot, then logs everything into a centralised Google Sheet accessible to all outlet managers in real time. For status queries, it looks up the order ID and returns the current stage within 3 seconds. For complaints or complex queries it cannot resolve, it escalates to the correct outlet manager with full conversation context.
The results after six months: 84% of queries resolved without staff involvement, average response time under 3 seconds (was 2 to 4 hours during peak periods), 130+ staff hours saved per month, order booking completion up 38%, and repeat customer rate up 22%.
For e-commerce and D2C brands on Shopify, we build chatbots that do substantially more than answer questions. They recover abandoned carts via WhatsApp sequences, answer product queries from the live catalogue using Shopify's API, handle order tracking by pulling real-time data from Shiprocket or Delhivery, escalate refund requests with full order context, and send post-purchase check-in messages that drive repeat purchases. Every integration is API-level — no Zapier middle-layers, no fragile webhook chains.
For service businesses — clinics, salons, laundry services, coaching institutes — we build appointment booking bots that connect to your calendar, send reminders, handle rescheduling, and collect pre-appointment information. The bot handles the entire booking journey. Your staff receive a confirmed appointment with all context already filled in.
We are a DPIIT-recognised startup and AWS Partner. Our infrastructure is self-hosted on AWS EC2, which means there are no per-message fees, no per-conversation charges, and no surprise bills as your message volume grows. We build fallback handlers for API downtime, message delivery failures, and edge-case conversation paths, so the system degrades gracefully rather than going dark at 10pm on a Friday.
Deployment channels include WhatsApp Business (using Meta's official Cloud API, not third-party providers), your website via Chatwoot for live chat with AI-assisted responses, Instagram DMs, and Facebook Messenger. All channels feed into a single unified inbox, so your team has one place to review escalations and monitor conversation quality.
Language support covers English, Hindi, and Bengali for conversations — critical for serving customers across West Bengal and the broader Indian market who switch between languages mid-conversation.
Our process runs in three phases. First, we spend one to two weeks understanding your business: your products or services, your most common customer queries, your escalation policies, and your existing tools and systems. Second, we build and train the bot in a staging environment, running it against hundreds of real historical conversations to catch gaps before go-live. Third, we deploy to production and monitor the first 30 days intensively, tuning the model on any query types it mishandles.
Pricing is fixed and scoped before we start. A WhatsApp AI agent for a service business typically runs in the range of one to two sprints. An e-commerce chatbot with Shopify integration, order tracking, and abandoned cart recovery is typically two to three sprints. Custom enterprise deployments are scoped individually.
If you are based in Kolkata or anywhere in India and you have been burned by a chatbot agency that delivered something that felt intelligent in the demo and useless in production, book a 30-minute discovery call. We will review your current customer communication workflow, identify the highest-impact automation opportunities, and tell you honestly whether a chatbot is the right solution or whether your problem needs something else entirely.