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Chatfuel Built the Bot Gold Rush’s Shovel - Then Had to Rebuild It for AI Sales
Chatfuel rode Telegram, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and now TikTok without pretending the channel was the business. Its more useful trick was learning when distribution had broken - and rebuilding around the next customer conversation.
Manychat
Manychat is a no-code chat marketing platform that lets businesses and creators automate conversations across Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, TikTok, SMS and email. Built around a visual drag-and-drop Flow Builder, it turns DMs, comments and messages into automated lead capture, sales and support flows. Founded in 2015 and now used by roughly 1.5 million customers in 170+ countries, Manychat sends billions of messages a year and has driven more than $10 billion in user sales. In 2025 it raised $140M led by Summit Partners to push deeper into AI-driven customer engagement.