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Chative Wants Your DMs to Do the Selling
A 13-person team split between Singapore and Da Nang built an AI-run inbox that turns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp chats into checkouts. The pitch is blunt: sell more, hire less.
The Chat Box in the Corner Is Now a $2 Billion Fight
Front, Text, respond.io, JivoChat and a handful of rivals turned the little live-chat widget into a real software business. Now AI agents are racing to answer before a human ever reads the message.
Six Live Chat Tools and the Bubble That Runs Your Website
HelpCrunch, WATI, Pure Chat, LivePerson, Rocket.Chat and Provide Support all sell the same small box in the corner of your screen. The differences between them explain how customer support quietly turned into a software industry worth billions.
Live Chat Software Can't Agree Where Your Chats Should Live
Userlike, LiveHelpNow, Social Intents and Rocket.Chat all put a chat box on your website. The interesting part is what happens to the conversation after a visitor hits send.
Chative Is Betting Your Next Sale Starts In The DMs
The Da Nang-built messaging platform grew out of a chatbot tool called BotStar. Now it wants to be the one inbox where AI and human agents close sales across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Shopify.
Live Chat Software Stopped Waiting for a Human to Reply
From a free chat bubble in Scottsdale to a public company in New York and a $62.5 million bet out of Kuala Lumpur, four companies are chasing the same job - answer the customer - and AI is quietly rewriting who does the answering.