AI Agents Overview
What AI agents can do and how they work.
An AI agent replies to your customers in your connected channels, in the dialect you choose and from the knowledge you give it. When a customer needs a person, it hands the chat to your team.
Important: AI agents are a paid feature, from the Starter plan. The Free plan cannot create or run an agent, and there is no free trial. How many agents can be live at once depends on your plan.
How AI Agents Work
When a customer writes on a channel with an assigned agent, the agent:
- 1. Reads the message in the context of the conversation
- 2. Looks up your knowledge sources for the answer
- 3. Writes a reply in its personality, tone and dialect
- 4. Uses connected tools when you allow it (for example adds a row to a Google Sheet)
- 5. Sends the reply on the same channel
- 6. Hands the chat to your team when the customer asks for a person or it cannot help
Where Agents Reply
Agents reply on Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, Website Chat and custom channels. Each channel has at most one agent. Raqi agents support 90 dialects, including Gulf, Iraqi, Saudi, Levantine and Egyptian Arabic. Voice AI is coming soon.
Monthly Limits
Your plan includes a monthly number of AI conversations. One AI conversation is up to 10 AI replies to one customer in the month, and a longer chat uses another one every 10 AI replies. When they run out, new chats go to your team. An owner or admin can also turn on Keep AI running in Settings > Organization > Billing & usage: each AI credit then pays for 3 more AI conversations, up to a monthly AI credit limit (100 by default). One chat gets at most 50 AI replies a day before your team takes over. There is no overage billing.
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