AI advice

Answer first questions from your expertise, while the advice stays with you

Before a first appointment, many people want to know whether they've come to the right place and what to bring. The bot answers from your own documents. It does not assess individual cases.

  • Answers only from your sources
  • No binding advice on individual cases
  • Checklists for new clients or customers
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First questions answered before the meeting
Tax Office AssistantOnline
  1. do you work with freelancers? i've been self-employed since october
  2. Tax Office Assistant
    Yes, we work with freelancers, including in their first year. What to bring to the first meeting is in our checklist:
    Checklist-First-Meeting.pdfSource of the answer
  3. do i actually have to charge vat?
  4. Tax Office Assistant
    That depends on your individual situation and is clarified in the first meeting. Would you like to book an appointment now?
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Tax firm's website, Sunday, 4:18 pm

Advisor in a first meeting with a client at a table
The situation

The questions before the real question

Sunday, 16:15. A woman went freelance in the autumn and has to file her first tax return with a profit statement. She's looking for a tax adviser nearby. On the firm's website she wants to know three things: do you work with freelancers? What should I bring to the first meeting? And roughly what does it cost?

None of these questions is tax advice. All three answers already exist somewhere in the office, in a guide, a checklist, or in the head of the colleague at reception. But on a Sunday, nobody can get to them.

The bot can answer these questions from your documents. If she then asks whether she can claim her home office, it explains politely that this belongs in the consultation and offers an appointment.

In detail

What you get

Where the bot gets its answers

You give the bot what you'd normally give new clients: guides as PDF or Word files, your service pages as URLs, checklists, your own texts. On top of that come question-and-answer pairs for anything that should always be answered the same way.

For every question, the bot searches these sources first and only then writes its answer. If the answer isn't there, it says so and refers to you rather than guessing. There's no absolute guarantee with AI, which is why you test in the Playground before going live.

Your content sits in its own separate database. It isn't shared with other customers and isn't used to train AI models.

  • PDF, Word, text and website URLs
  • Q&A pairs for fixed wording
  • Automatic re-crawling of your website
  • A separate database for each assistant

What the bot can answer

Anything you'd answer on the phone without opening a file. Whether you cover a particular area. How a first consultation works with you and what it costs, if you publish that. Which documents to bring and when certain deadlines fall, as long as it's in your texts.

If an enquiry isn't a fit, for example because you don't handle family law, the bot says so honestly. That saves both sides a phone call.

  • Areas of expertise and services
  • How the first consultation works and what it costs
  • Documents and checklists
  • General deadlines from your texts

Where advice begins and the bot stops

The bot gives no binding legal, tax or medical advice. It won't judge whether a dismissal is valid, whether something is tax-deductible or whether a symptom is harmless. It says so openly and offers an appointment or a callback instead.

You decide the exact wording of that reply and store it as a question-and-answer pair. For medical practices in Germany, that includes pointing to 112 or the out-of-hours medical service on 116117. In the Playground you check beforehand how the bot handles exactly these borderline questions.

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In tax advice, the same questions about deadlines and receipts come back every year. At Heppe Steinborn Henczka, the bot answers them, and new clients receive the right document checklist through a flow. The result is 56% fewer phone queries during tax season.

How it works

How to prepare the bot

No coding, no IT project. Live in under 3 minutes.

  1. 01

    Gather your expertise

    Service pages, guides, checklists and the questions your front desk answers every week. Anything that should always read the same goes in as a Q&A pair.

  2. 02

    Set the limits

    Write the fixed reply for questions about individual cases and check in the Playground how the bot handles the tricky ones.

  3. 03

    Connect to booking

    From the Basic plan, link your calendar so every answer can end in an appointment. Then add the script tag to your website.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Answers to the questions we hear most often about this topic.

Isn't this legal advice by AI after all?

No, that's not how we set the bot up. It passes on general information from your own documents, such as services, process and paperwork. It doesn't comment on the specific case and refers people to a conversation with you.

What if someone insists on an assessment?

The bot replies with the wording you've stored and offers an appointment or callback. Feel free to test it in the Playground with persistent follow-up questions.

Can the bot answer questions in other languages?

Yes. It replies in the language the person writes in, using the information from your German texts. The chat window itself is available in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.

How up to date are the answers?

As up to date as your sources. Website sources can be re-crawled daily, weekly or monthly. You replace uploaded PDFs yourself when there's a new version.

Where are the conversations stored?

On servers in Germany and the EU, with TLS-encrypted transfer, and we provide a data processing agreement (DPA). Conversations aren't used to train AI models. Whether this meets your professional obligations is something you'll need to check yourself.

Question not on the list? Write to us or give us a call. You will hear back from our team in Dortmund, not from the bot.Get in touch
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