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AI Setup & Training

How to choose the right Data Source Mode?

The Data Source section in the AskHandle dashboard is where you can upload your training materials. Data Source Mode dictates how you'd like AskHandle to engage with your customers upon receiving a question. AskHandle provides three Data Source Modes to select from: General Data, Your Own Data, and Combined Data.

AI Setup & Training

How to Customize AI Response?

Creating custom responses for your AI is straightforward. The way your AI interacts with your customers largely depends on the content you provide and its structure. This process of training and setting up the AI is termed the Fine-Tuning phase. Essentially, it's about teaching the AI to provide specific information and communicate in your typical style.

Installation & Channels

How to Enable AskHandle on Infobip?

In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through the process of integrating AskHandle AI using the Infobip Chatbot Builder. Infobip’s chatbot tool allows you to create and manage chatbots across multiple channels, including WhatsApp, Instagram Messenger, Facebook Messenger, LINE, and SMS. With this setup, you can easily launch your AskHandle AI chatbot on the communication platforms your users prefer.

Installation & Channels

How to Launch AskHandle on Facebook Messenger?

Facebook Messenger is one of the most widely used platforms for businesses and creators to connect with their audience in real time. Connecting AskHandle to your Facebook Page allows fans and customers to engage directly with the AI experiences you’ve built. This integration is made possible through **Infobip**, an official Meta partner that streamlines the setup process.

Start Here

First steps, onboarding, and the fastest paths to launch.

Installation & Channels

Website installs, Messenger launches, API flows, and integrations.

Chat Widget Not Loading? Cookiebot or CSP May Be Blocking It

May 13, 2025

If you've correctly installed the chat widget using Google Tag Manager (GTM) or directly in a single-page React app — but it **still doesn’t appear** — the problem is likely due to Cookiebot blocking scripts until consent is given, Content Security Policy (CSP) preventing external scripts, or Incorrect GTM tag configuration or load timing, this article explains the cause and gives step-by-step solutions.

How to Build a Chat Completion Experience with AskHandle API?

March 21, 2025

This tutorial explains how to create a chat experience using the AskHandle API. You will learn how to get your API token, create chat rooms, send messages, and receive AI responses.

How to Configure the Visuals and UX of the Messenger?

February 13, 2025

You can configure and adjust the visuals and user experience (UX) of the messenger to match your style and brand. In this section, you will learn how to customize both the visual and textual components of the AskHandle messenger. Let’s explore the various elements you can configure and how to make these changes.

How to Enable AskHandle on Infobip?

June 19, 2025

In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through the process of integrating AskHandle AI using the Infobip Chatbot Builder. Infobip’s chatbot tool allows you to create and manage chatbots across multiple channels, including WhatsApp, Instagram Messenger, Facebook Messenger, LINE, and SMS. With this setup, you can easily launch your AskHandle AI chatbot on the communication platforms your users prefer.

How to Get Your Token with AskHandle API?

March 21, 2025

This article guides you through the process of obtaining your AskHandle API token. The token lets you use our API to create chat rooms, send messages, and interact with your AI model.

How to install AskHandle chat widget on a single-page website?

May 13, 2025

If you're building your website using ReactJS or another single-page application (SPA) framework, installing the chat widget requires a slightly different approach than a traditional website. Because SPAs load content dynamically without full page reloads, embedding scripts like our widget can fail if not configured correctly.

How to Install AskHandle on a Next.js Website?

March 21, 2025

Next.js is a powerful React-based framework commonly used to build dynamic web applications. Unlike traditional HTML-based sites, Next.js does not have a standard index.html file where scripts can simply be pasted. Because of this, installing the AskHandle chat widget requires minor adjustments to fit the Next.js structure.

How to Install AskHandle on a Squarespace Website?

February 5, 2025

This tutorial provides steps for integrating AskHandle onto Squarespace websites, involving logging into the Squarespace dashboard, accessing settings, adding installation code from AskHandle, and adjusting its position as needed.

How to install AskHandle on a Wordpress website?

February 13, 2025

Installing AskHandle on your WordPress website is simple and straightforward. The fastest method is using a WordPress plugin, which allows you to easily add the necessary JavaScript snippet to your website. Follow these steps to install AskHandle:

How to Launch AskHandle on Facebook Messenger?

June 19, 2025

Facebook Messenger is one of the most widely used platforms for businesses and creators to connect with their audience in real time. Connecting AskHandle to your Facebook Page allows fans and customers to engage directly with the AI experiences you’ve built. This integration is made possible through **Infobip**, an official Meta partner that streamlines the setup process.

How to Launch AskHandle on Instagram Messenger?

June 19, 2025

Instagram Messenger is one of the most popular messaging platforms for creators, brands, and businesses to engage with their followers. By connecting AskHandle to your Instagram account, you can allow fans to chat directly with the AI experiences you've built. To enable this connection, we’ll use Infobip, an official Meta partner, as the integration platform.

Installing AskHandle on custom website

September 2, 2024

Installing AskHandle on your custom website is a simple process. Log in to your AskHandle account and click on “Installation” in the menu.

When should I use the REST API-based chat widget?

May 13, 2025

AskHandle offers two types of chat widgets: A WebSocket-based widget for real-time, live human chat, a REST API-based widget for lightweight, customizable, AI-powered chat. This article explains when to use the REST API widget, how it differs from the default, and how to install and deploy it.

AI Setup & Training

Teaching AskHandle what to say, how to behave, and what data to use.

Can I use tabular data for AI training?

October 14, 2024

The most efficient method for handling structured data in tables is to store it in a dedicated Excel or .csv file and then import it into the data source. Although you can incorporate tables into PDF or DOCX files, doing so may lead to inconsistent recognition and less effective response generation.

How Can You Create Better Prompts for AI Performance?

February 12, 2025

Effective prompts are key to maximizing AI model performance. A prompt acts as the instruction manual for your AI agent, guiding how it understands requests, formulates answers, and interacts with users. This article will show you how to create clear, effective prompts that ensure your AI agent performs at its best.

How to choose the right Data Source Mode?

July 23, 2025

The Data Source section in the AskHandle dashboard is where you can upload your training materials. Data Source Mode dictates how you'd like AskHandle to engage with your customers upon receiving a question. AskHandle provides three Data Source Modes to select from: General Data, Your Own Data, and Combined Data.

How to Customize AI Response?

July 23, 2025

Creating custom responses for your AI is straightforward. The way your AI interacts with your customers largely depends on the content you provide and its structure. This process of training and setting up the AI is termed the Fine-Tuning phase. Essentially, it's about teaching the AI to provide specific information and communicate in your typical style.

How to Ensure Your AI Understands Webpage Content?

February 5, 2025

Enhancing your AI’s ability to process webpage content is a straightforward three-step process. First, we address potential issues that may arise when your AI attempts to scan webpages, such as restrictions that block content access. Next, we provide a practical solution by manually transferring webpage content into a format the AI can process more accurately. Finally, we explain how to test your AI’s comprehension after the upload and offer guidance on seeking additional support if needed.

How to fine tune your AI model?

March 4, 2025

In Fine-tuning Mode, you can create a custom AI model by refining a base model using your own dataset. Fine-tuning enhances the model’s knowledge in specific areas, allowing it to generate more accurate and relevant responses for your use case.

How to Improve AI recognition for Lists and Characteristics?

February 5, 2025

When using AskHandle to provide detailed lists or characteristics about specific topics, it’s important to make sure the information is linked to the right subject. Here are simple steps to help the AI give better responses.

How to Improve AI Recognition in Other Languages?

February 5, 2025

AskHandle AI supports over 90 languages and can communicate with your customers in any of them. By default, the AI can understand and process information from your training data regardless of its original language, generating responses in the language your customers prefer.

How to Insert Images in AI Responses?

February 5, 2025

Incorporating images in AskHandle AI responses enhances user engagement by providing visual context alongside text. Follow this guide to automate image inclusion in your AI responses based on specific keywords.

How to Insert URLs in AI Responses?

February 5, 2025

Including URLs in AI responses helps users access detailed information and additional resources. This guide explains how to configure AskHandle to show URLs in responses.

How to measure AI Performance?

November 9, 2024

At AskHandle, we assess AI performance by ensuring that responses are both accurate and relevant to the user's question. Each AI-generated response in AskHandle includes two key scores, displayed in brackets like (0.8, 0.9), that measure the quality of the AI’s performance. These scores range from 0 to 1 and give a quick indication of how well the AI meets user needs.

How to Provide General Responses to Customer Questions?

February 5, 2025

Customers may sometimes ask questions that are not directly related to your services or outside the scope of the data you’ve uploaded. You can guide the AI to respond appropriately by adding detailed information to your data source and using custom prompts for further control.

How to Set Up a Correct Self-Introduction for Your AI?

February 5, 2025

Setting up a proper self-introduction helps your AI assistant create a welcoming and professional impression. You can achieve this by providing a clear instruction in the Custom Prompt section.

How to Set Up AskHandle AI for Scheduling Appointments?

October 14, 2024

Setting up AskHandle AI to manage scheduling for your users is simple. Follow these steps to allow the AI to handle appointments, ask necessary questions, and confirm visits.

How to Set Up the Greeting Message?

February 12, 2025

When users start a conversation with AskHandle, they are greeted with a welcoming message. You can easily customize this greeting to better match your brand's tone.

Prohibited Content for AI Training and Fine-Tuning

February 8, 2025

At Askhandle, we maintain strict guidelines to ensure that our AI systems are developed in a safe, ethical, and responsible manner. To protect the integrity of our platform and ensure AI safety, we do not allow the upload of certain types of content for training or fine-tuning AI.

Teaching AskHandle AI to Use First Person

February 12, 2025

To ensure the AI uses first-person responses, you can write custom prompts that guide the AI to answer in the first person. This makes interactions feel more personal and engaging.

What is a Data Source?

September 12, 2024

A data source is a repository where your information is stored, and it serves as the foundation for AskHandle to generate answers and content. You can import data into a data source using three methods: uploading files (PDF, DOCX, CSV, TXT, or Markdown), inserting a webpage URL, or directly typing or pasting content into a plain text field. You can use one, two, or all three methods depending on your needs.

What Is the AI Answer Relevance Score?

November 9, 2024

At AskHandle, we leverage AI to not only answer customer inquiries but to ensure those responses are directly relevant. The AI Answer Relevance Score plays a key role in evaluating how closely the AI’s responses address a user’s question, helping to refine the quality of answers. This score, which typically ranges from 0 to 1, provides a measure of how well the AI response aligns with the question’s intent, based on available data.

What is the Faithfulness Score in AI Responses?

November 9, 2024

The Faithfulness Score helps measure how accurately an AI-generated response aligns with the specific information provided by your business. It focuses on factual consistency, ensuring that the AI’s answers reflect the data you’ve supplied without adding or changing key details.

Reporting & Operations

Performance, dashboards, answer quality, and ongoing oversight.

Account & Billing

Plans, settings, credentials, security, and administrative tasks.

How to change a password?

October 14, 2024

To change your password, access the Settings in your user dashboard, located at the bottom-left corner of the menu represented by a gear icon. Within Settings, click on Change Password, input your old password, and enter the new password you desire. If you've forgotten your password, click on Forgot Password when signing in and follow the provided instructions.

How to change my current plan?

June 16, 2024

To change your current plan, go to your user dashboard's Settings section. Access it from the bottom-left corner, indicated by a gear icon. Then, find Billing Management, click Update Plan, select your desired plan, and proceed by clicking Continue in the bottom-right corner.

How to update payment information?

June 16, 2024

To add or change payment information, go to the Settings section in your user dashboard, accessible via the gear icon in the bottom-left corner. Within Settings, find Billing Management, where you can either add new payment details by clicking Add payment info or update existing information by selecting Update information and filling out the necessary forms. The navigation path for adding payment information is User dashboard -> Settings -> Billing Management -> Add payment info, while for updating existing details, it's User dashboard -> Settings -> Billing Management -> Update information.

What are in the account settings?

February 5, 2025

In this section, manage notifications, reports, password, and billing details. Customize email and WhatsApp notifications for new chats and opt in or out of daily reports, while also easily changing your password and updating payment information in the Billing Management section.

Where Do We Store Your Data at AskHandle?

November 8, 2024

At AskHandle, data storage is a top priority, and we use secure, high-performance cloud services to keep your data safe, accessible, and well-managed. Our database infrastructure is now powered by Heroku Postgres, a reliable and scalable SQL database solution directly managed by Heroku. This transition allows us to offer improved flexibility, security, and performance for our users.

Reference

Definitions, feature explainers, and general support articles.

Can I use images or videos for fine-tuning?

June 8, 2024

AskHandle’s AI is built around text-based training and fine-tuning, meaning that only text can be used to set up and train your AI. If you try to import content that includes images or videos—such as a webpage with visual elements or files that embed multimedia content—the AI will not be able to process that information. Fine-tuning can only occur when the imported data is purely text-based.

Getting started with AskHandle

February 13, 2025

Welcome to AskHandle, where personalized AI support meets your needs! With our advanced AI platform and a user-friendly interface, we're here to streamline your experience and offer prompt, reliable assistance whenever you need it. Welcome aboard!

How Long Does It Take for a BIMI Logo to Appear in Inbox?

November 15, 2024

Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) allows your logo to be displayed in email clients, helping to build trust and brand recognition. This guide explains how to create a BIMI-compliant logo using Adobe Illustrator and make the required changes to the SVG file.

How to Generate a BIMI-Compliant Logo with Adobe Illustrator?

November 15, 2024

Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) allows your logo to be displayed in email clients, helping to build trust and brand recognition. This guide explains how to create a BIMI-compliant logo using Adobe Illustrator and make the required changes to the SVG file.

How to Get a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) for BIMI Compliance?

November 15, 2024

Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) allows your logo to be displayed in email clients, helping to build trust and brand recognition. This guide explains how to create a BIMI-compliant logo using Adobe Illustrator and make the required changes to the SVG file.

How to Set Up Interactive Options?

February 12, 2025

Interactive options are quick-reply buttons that let users click to send short messages. You can use these buttons to highlight frequently asked topics or guide users through common actions.

How to Subscribe to an RSS Feed?

June 17, 2024

RSS feeds offer a streamlined solution to receive updates without having to visit each site individually. RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video. In this article, we'll explore how you can subscribe to an RSS feed, specifically focusing on the RSS feed provided by [AskHandle](https://www.askhandle.com/blog-rss.xml), ensuring you never miss an update from their insightful blog.

How to Use Keyword Notification?

November 8, 2024

The Keyword Notification feature is available for users on the Professional Plan and above. This feature allows you to set specific keywords in the Command Center, and the AI will send you a notification whenever a user mentions these keywords in a conversation.

Is My Imported Data Being Used by Anyone Else?

September 12, 2024

At AskHandle, your data is entirely your own. The information you import into your data source is used **exclusively** for your account and is never shared or utilized in any AI training outside of your system.

What Are Customer Profiles from Conversations?

June 8, 2024

AskHandle creates customer profiles upon user engagement, storing contact details and various data points like referral source, device, and geolocation, with seamless integration options available for CRM systems such as Salesforce and HubSpot.

What Are Live Chat Capabilities?

June 8, 2024

AskHandle primarily serves as an automated customer support system, but also offers a live-chat feature for users who prefer human interaction, accessible by toggling off the AI in the Chats section.

What Does 'Load URL Recursively' Mean?

November 14, 2024

The 'Load URL Recursively' feature in AskHandle AI allows the system to learn not just from a single webpage URL you provide, but also from its child pages. This feature is particularly useful for creating a comprehensive data source from structured websites like help centers or FAQ sections.

What is a Channel?

June 16, 2024

AskHandle is available on web messenger and WhatsApp. Every plan, by default, comes with a web messenger that can be easily installed on any website. Only paid plans are eligible for the WhatsApp channel. Please contact us directly at support@askhandle.com if you’d like to have AskHandle on WhatsApp.

What is a chat interaction?

June 16, 2024

A chat interaction comprises the entire conversation between a user and AskHandle, starting from initiation to conclusion, regardless of message count. Users aren't restricted in message quantity or charged per message, and interactions are calculated per individual user who initiates and concludes a chat session.

What Is Command Center?

July 23, 2025

The Command Center is your hub for managing and customizing the information that powers your AI. It allows you to fine-tune your AI, customize interactive options, and manage responses. Through the Command Center, you can ensure that AskHandle performs optimally for your specific business needs.

When Will the User See the Contact Message?

November 8, 2024

When you sign up and begin a test chat on the Testing Page, you may notice that the AI repeatedly responds with the same message. This response is known as the Contact Message, which you can customize in the *Appearance* settings.