Everything your support team needs

Katalyst is not a chatbot. It is an autonomous concierge that resolves the messy half of e-commerce support and hands the rest to your team with the context already written.

Dual-engine AI routing

Katalyst AI handles the fast, routine work. The Katalyst Neural Engine steps in when sentiment, value, or complexity spikes — all mid-conversation.

  • Keyword + sentiment routing
  • Context-aware engine switching
  • Your own model keys, your control

Catalog-grounded answers

Vector search over your product titles, descriptions, and sizing notes means recommendations are tied to your actual inventory, not the model's training data.

  • 768-dim product embeddings
  • Semantic similarity matching
  • Sizing-note-aware replies

Returns and refunds on autopilot

Issue prepaid labels, detect the first carrier scan, and release refunds — all before the parcel reaches your warehouse.

  • Auto-generated return labels
  • First-scan refund triggers
  • Configurable refund ceilings

Supervisor handoff with a dossier

When a case needs a human, your supervisor receives a full brief: what happened, customer value, emotional state, and a recommended action.

  • AI-generated summaries
  • Risk and lifetime value flags
  • Suggested concession caps

Operational alerts

Cluster repeated complaints into actionable alerts: defect spikes, carrier delays, or SLA breaches — not just another ticket queue.

  • Pattern detection across conversations
  • SLA breach highlighting
  • Acknowledge-and-dismiss workflow

Embeddable widget

A branded chat widget that inherits your colours, fonts, and voice. Drop it in via iframe or a one-line JavaScript snippet.

  • Live preview in settings
  • Iframe + JS embed options
  • Session persistence for shoppers

Real-time knowledge graph

Products, policies, promotions and resolved cases are ingested into one embedded knowledge graph and refreshed automatically on your chosen cadence.

  • Hybrid vector + keyword retrieval
  • Scheduled catalog & policy sync
  • Knowledge-gap learning queue

Inbound voice concierge

A phone agent with human prosody, instant barge-in handling and caller-ID memory that greets repeat customers by name and order.

  • Full speaker-turn transcripts
  • Tunable interruption sensitivity
  • SMS fallback on dropped calls

Adaptive verification & OTP

Sensitive actions are gated behind knowledge-based checks and one-time passcodes delivered over SMS or email.

  • Per-action verification policies
  • Attempt limits and lockouts
  • Caller privacy opt-out list

Live monitoring, barge & whisper

Watch every active call and chat as it happens, whisper private coaching to the agent, or take the conversation over mid-flight.

  • Rolling per-merchant metrics
  • Agent stage tracking
  • One-click supervisor takeover

Autonomous QA & coaching

Every conversation is scored against a rubric and summarised with issue flags, so review takes seconds instead of a full read-through.

  • Empathy & policy adherence scores
  • Structured AI summaries
  • Coaching tags per agent

Native multi-language replies

Shopper language is detected on each message and answers are generated natively in that language across chat and voice.

  • Automatic detection per turn
  • No separate language config
  • Consistent brand voice

Live commerce integrations

Bring your own Shopify, Stripe, EasyPost, Twilio and Resend keys for real catalog sync, refunds, labels, SMS and email — or stay in sandbox.

  • Graceful sandbox fallback
  • Scheduled background jobs
  • Every action logged

Service & appointment mode

Run Katalyst as a booking concierge instead of a store concierge: your intake questions, lead qualification, real calendar availability and confirmed appointments.

  • Editable intake questions
  • Live slot preview & booking
  • Emergency keyword bridging

High-volume concurrency

Parallel agents scale to your line limit so no shopper or caller waits, with real-time metering of every active chat, text and call.

  • Auto-scaling agent pool
  • Live wallboard & utilization
  • Peak-hour load simulation

Interactive hold companion

A texted link turns hold into a screen: live wait clock, queue position, and a station carousel that swaps the audio on the live phone line without dropping the call.

  • Lo-fi, acoustic, jazz or trivia stations
  • Live queue position + wait clock
  • Station switches apply mid-call

Frustration pre-screening

Mood chips, hold duration, station skips and tap telemetry combine into one weighted score that routes hot callers straight to a supervisor.

  • Weighted mood + wait + telemetry score
  • Auto-escalation at the urgent threshold
  • Restlessness meter on every live call

Verify on hold & priority callbacks

Callers confirm their order number and ZIP while waiting, and the supervisor screen-pop opens with a verified order, the core problem, and a ready opening line — or the caller skips the queue with a callback.

  • Order + ZIP verification on hold
  • AI executive brief and opening script
  • Priority callback with full context

Spam, robocall & collections shield

Screens inbound numbers before an agent picks up, blocking known robocallers and debt-collection scripts and quarantining the rest.

  • Blocklist & pattern matching
  • Audio challenge for unknown numbers
  • Quarantine log with minutes saved

Custom voice studio

Record a short sample in your browser and clone it, so the phone concierge speaks in your own voice — or a natural sandbox voice until you connect a key.

  • In-browser recorder
  • ElevenLabs & Cartesia cloning
  • One-click voice activation

Autopilot or co-pilot

Decide how much the concierge may do alone. In co-pilot mode it drafts and waits; in autopilot it acts within the caps and confidence floor you set.

  • Per-merchant automation level
  • Autonomy & spend caps
  • Confidence floor enforcement

Accuracy & guardrails studio

Test edge cases before customers do, watch an accuracy scorecard over time, and turn plain-English feedback into rules the agents follow.

  • Simulate-and-audit sandbox
  • Accuracy audit log
  • Toggleable learned rules

A virtual call center, not a single bot

Katalyst staffs your store with a roster of specialists. Each conversation is classified by department and routed to the right agent, who can warm-transfer upward when the case outgrows their authority.

Departmental roster

Styling, logistics, returns and billing specialists — each with their own name, avatar, title and voice.

Tiered escalation

Frontline agents hand off to a team lead, and the team lead escalates to your human supervisor with a dossier.

Per-agent tool permissions

Decide which agent may issue labels, look up orders, or release a refund. Nothing else is callable.

Concession caps

Every agent carries its own refund authority, capped by your store-wide ceiling. Above it, a human approves.

Shoppers see the transfer as a friendly "X joined the chat" card, and your inbox shows the full handoff trail so supervisors know exactly who touched the case and why.

You decide how autonomous it is

Autonomy is a dial, not a switch. Every autonomous decision is measured, capped and auditable, so you can start in approval-first mode and open it up as the accuracy scorecard earns your trust.

Automation level

Co-pilot drafts every reply and action for your approval. Autopilot acts on its own inside the limits you set.

Caps and ceilings

Refund, concession and per-conversation spend caps are hard limits the agents cannot cross without a human.

Confidence floor

Below your floor the concierge refuses to guess, defers to a human and files the gap for you to answer once.

Audit log

Every autonomous action, guardrail trip and simulated edge case is recorded with the reason it was taken.

Reporting you can hand to your board

Every conversation is measured, every escalation is timed against the SLA you set, and every shopper is invited to rate the concierge. Nothing is estimated — the numbers come from your own data.

Resolution rate

Share of conversations closed without a human, tracked daily over 7, 30 or 90 days.

CSAT ratings

Shoppers rate the chat 1–5 with an optional comment; averages and detractors surface in reporting.

SLA compliance

Median and worst supervisor response times, met vs breached, plus a live at-risk queue.

CSV export

Export the selected range — headline metrics, daily volume, intents and raw ratings.

Ready to see it in action?

Create a free store, run the onboarding wizard, and chat with the live demo widget in minutes.