Getting Started: Build Your First Alee Chatbot

This is the fastest path from zero to a working AI chatbot that answers questions using only your own content. No coding, no setup headaches. If you have a website, a PDF, or even a paragraph of text, you can have a live bot in about five minutes. Here is the full beginner walkthrough, step by step.

What you are about to build

An Alee chatbot is a chat bubble that sits on your website and answers visitor questions from content you give it. It does not make things up. When someone asks something, Alee finds the most relevant pieces of your content, writes a grounded answer, and shows the sources. If the answer is not in your material, it politely says it does not know.

Under the hood this is called Advanced RAG. You add a source, Alee breaks it into small chunks, converts each chunk into a vector, and stores them in what we call your "knowledge brain." That brain is what your bot draws from. The more good content you add, the smarter it gets. You do not need to understand any of that to use it, but it helps to know why your bot only answers from your stuff.

Step 1: Sign up for a free account

You do not need a credit card to begin.

1. Go to Start free and create your account with email or a social login.
2. Confirm your email if prompted.
3. You land in your Alee dashboard, which is where all your bots live.

The Free plan gives you 1 bot and 200 messages per month, which is plenty to build, test, and put a real bot on a small site. You can look at pricing later if you outgrow it. For India, card and UPI billing in INR is on the way, but you can start free today regardless of where you are.

Step 2: Create and name your bot

From the dashboard, create a new bot. You will be asked for a name.

• Bot name / display name: This is what visitors see at the top of the chat window, so make it human and on-brand. "Riya from FitZone" reads better than "Bot 1". You can change it any time.
• Pick something specific to the site or business this bot will serve. If you plan to run several bots later (say, one per client), clear names save you a lot of confusion.

That is the only required field to get going. Everything else, the look and the persona, can be tuned after you see it working. Create the bot and you will be taken into its settings.

Step 3: Add your first knowledge source

This is the important step. Your bot knows nothing until you feed it. Open the bot's Sources area and add a source. Alee can train on several types, so pick whichever you have handy:

• A website URL — Alee crawls that single page and learns its content. Great for a homepage, an About page, or a single FAQ page.
• A whole sitemap or many pages at once — point Alee at your sitemap and it ingests many pages in one go. Best when you want the bot to know your entire site.
• PDFs and documents — upload a brochure, a policy doc, a price list, a handbook.
• YouTube videos — paste a video link and Alee uses the transcript, so a course or a walkthrough video becomes answerable knowledge.
• Raw text or FAQ — paste text directly. Perfect for quick FAQs, shipping rules, gym timings, or anything that is not on a public page yet.

For your very first bot, the simplest start is a single website URL or a short pasted FAQ. Add the source and let Alee finish processing it. You will see it move from processing to ready once the chunks are embedded into the knowledge brain. Larger sources, like a full sitemap or a big PDF, take a little longer.

Worked example. Say you run a small coaching business with a homepage at yoursite.com and a one-page FAQ about fees and timings.

1. Add source, choose website URL, paste https://yoursite.com.
2. Wait for it to show ready.
3. Add a second source, choose raw text, and paste your FAQ:

"Sessions are 60 minutes. Fees are 1,500 per session or 8,000 for a pack of six. We meet online over video. Cancellations need 24 hours notice."

1. Now your bot can answer "How long is a session?" and "What is the cancellation policy?" with exact, grounded answers.

You can re-crawl a source or add more sources whenever your content changes. The brain grows with you.

Step 4: Test your bot before anyone else sees it

Every Alee bot has a built-in preview so you can talk to it privately. Open the test or preview chat and try real questions a visitor would actually ask.

Things to check while testing:

• Accuracy — does it answer from your content and cite sources? Click through a source to confirm it pulled from the right place.
• The unknown case — ask something you did not add (for example, "Do you offer refunds?" when refunds are not in your content). A good answer is the bot admitting it does not know. That honesty is the point; it means no hallucinations.
• Gaps — if it says it does not know something it should know, that is a signal to add a source covering that topic.

Tip: ask the same question twice. The second answer should come back instantly, because Alee caches repeat or similar questions. Each answer is also self-checked for grounding before it is sent, so what you see in preview is what visitors will get.

Step 5: Customize the look and voice (optional but quick)

You can ship with defaults, but two minutes here makes the bot feel like yours. In the bot's appearance and persona settings you can set:

• Brand color — match your site (the Alee brand red is #e11d2a, but use your own).
• Avatar or launcher image — the icon visitors click to open chat.
• Welcome message — the first line they see, e.g. "Hi! Ask me anything about our classes."
• Suggested starter questions — a few clickable prompts that nudge visitors toward what the bot answers well.
• Bot persona / system prompt — the tone and rules. Tell it to be warm and concise, to always offer to share a booking link, or to never discuss competitors. This shapes how it talks, while your sources control what it knows.

You can explore all of these later in features. None are required to go live.

Step 6: Embed your bot on your site

This is the satisfying part. Open the bot's embed or install section and copy the single <script> line Alee gives you.

1. Copy the script snippet.
2. Paste it into your site so it loads on every page, just before the closing </body> tag.
3. Publish, then reload your site. The chat bubble appears in the corner.

That one line works almost everywhere:

• WordPress — paste it in a footer/header-scripts plugin or your theme's footer.
• Shopify — add it to theme.liquid before </body>.
• Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Framer, Ghost — use the custom-code or embed-code area in site settings.
• Plain HTML — paste it directly in your template.
• Linktree / link-in-bio — if your page allows custom code, the bubble works there too.

If you are on a paid plan you can also remove the "Powered by" badge for a clean white-label look. Once the bubble shows up and answers a test question on your live site, you are done. Your first Alee chatbot is live.

What to do next

• Watch the Analytics for this bot: conversations, messages, leads, lead rate, activity over time, and a Top Questions list that tells you what people actually ask.
• Use the question-triage inbox to mark questions important, FAQ, or answered, and teach a better answer where the bot fell short.
• Turn on lead capture to collect name, email, or phone inside the chat, and push leads to a CRM, Google Sheet, or email via webhook (or automate with n8n).
• Add more sources as your content grows, and browse more guides or other tutorials when you are ready to go deeper.

Frequently asked questions

How long does it really take to build my first bot?

For a single website URL or a pasted FAQ, about five minutes end to end, including the embed. Larger sources like a full sitemap or a big PDF take longer to process, but you can keep working while they finish in the background.

Will the bot make up answers if it does not know something?

No. Alee only answers from the content you add, shows its sources, and self-checks each answer for grounding before sending. If something is not in your sources, it tells the visitor it does not know rather than guessing.

Can I start without paying or entering a card?

Yes. The Free plan includes 1 bot and 200 messages a month with no card required, which is enough to build, test, and embed a real bot. Upgrade only when you need more bots or messages, and INR/UPI billing for India is coming soon.

Ready to see it for yourself? [Start free](/signup) and build your first Alee chatbot in the next five minutes.