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AI assistants must know business specifics to build trust, says Savalan AI founder

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An AI assistant that lacks specific business knowledge can provide confident but incorrect answers, eroding customer trust. To combat this, Savalan AI, a business-grounded AI assistant developed in Istanbul, prioritizes knowing a company's products, policies, and FAQs before responding. This approach ensures accuracy over fluency, with the assistant admitting when it doesn't know an answer rather than fabricating one. The founder, Arel Aslan, emphasizes that any AI tool interacting with customers should act as a trained employee, not a generic search engine. AI

IMPACT Highlights the need for specialized AI solutions that prioritize accuracy and business context over general knowledge to maintain customer trust.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece from an entrepreneur about the importance of business-specific knowledge for AI assistants.

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AI assistants must know business specifics to build trust, says Savalan AI founder

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Arel Aslan ·

    An AI assistant that does not know the business will guess

    <p>Most AI assistants answer from general knowledge. That is fine for a trivia question, and it is a problem for a business. A customer asks about a return policy, a delivery window, or whether a product fits their use case, and a generic answer sounds confident while being wrong…

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