Case study · AI / Hospitality

AI chatbot that never sleeps.

An AI-powered support chatbot that handles customer questions, qualifies orders, and hands off to the team, 24/7, trained on the brand's own content.

Client
Wola Labs
Sector
AI / Hospitality
Levers
AI
Delivery
From 1 week

The brief

What they came in with.

A food brand was losing orders after hours. Questions about ingredients, allergens, catering menus, and delivery areas were going unanswered until the next morning, by which point the customer had already moved on.

The brief: handle the common questions automatically, qualify catering enquiries, and escalate anything complex to the team. Free the human touch for conversations that actually need it.

The approach

How we think about it.

Every project starts with the business problem, not the solution. Before touching any tool or writing a line of code, we spend time with the people who own the outcome. We map what's broken, what's actually worth fixing, and what success looks like in practice, not in a brief. Only then do we build.

We audited six months of WhatsApp and email threads to map the 12 questions that covered 80% of all enquiries. Those became the knowledge base.

The chatbot is trained on the actual menu, ingredient lists, catering packages, and delivery zones. It doesn't guess, it retrieves. And when it can't answer, it says so and collects a contact.

What we shipped

The work, in plain language.

  • 01Knowledge base built from real customer conversations, not marketing copy
  • 02Handoff logic triggers on intent signals: price negotiation, custom orders, complaints
  • 03Catering enquiry flow structured to capture date, headcount, and budget before escalating
  • 04Response tone trained to match the brand voice, not sound like a bot
  • 05WhatsApp-native integration so customers use the channel they already prefer

We stopped losing enquiries to silence. The chatbot handles the standard questions and sends us the ones that actually need a conversation.

Founder, wola.ai
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