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The single biggest reason people never ship their first bot is tool-shopping: they open fifteen tabs, watch comparison videos, and lose the afternoon without building anything. This task exists to kill that pattern. There are exactly two on-ramps you need to consider today, both fast enough to have a working bot inside an hour, and your job is to pick one in ten minutes and never look back for the rest of this module. The deep comparison — pricing at scale, integrations, white-labelling for clients — genuinely matters, but it belongs in module 2 when you have a working bot to compare against. Choosing now, imperfectly, beats choosing later, perfectly, because the second bot is easy once the first one exists.
Here are your two options, honestly. Chatbase (chatbase.co) is a purpose-built chatbot platform: you upload your FAQ text or a document, it trains a bot, and it hands you an embeddable chat widget for a website. Its free tier lets you build one chatbot with a small message allowance per month — plenty to build, test, and demo the five-FAQ bot this module asks for. Its strength is that everything you need this module — knowledge base, welcome message, embed snippet, lead capture form — is a built-in setting, no cobbling required. Its limit is that the free tier caps messages and branding, which you'll hit only when a real client uses it daily.
The other on-ramp is a custom GPT inside ChatGPT (via chatgpt.com, requires a ChatGPT Plus account to create one). You paste your FAQs into the instructions or upload them as a knowledge file, and you get a shareable chatbot link in minutes. Its strength is zero learning curve if you already use ChatGPT. Its real limitation for this course: a custom GPT lives on OpenAI's site behind a login and can't be embedded as a widget on a client's own web page — which task 7 ("Put the Bot on a Real Web Page") specifically requires. So the honest recommendation for this module is Chatbase: it takes you all the way to an embedded, shareable, lead-capturing bot on a real page. Pick a custom GPT only if you want the absolute fastest first taste and are willing to skip the embed step. Decision rule: if you want to complete every task in this module including embedding, choose Chatbase. Set a ten-minute timer, open both signup pages, and commit.