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An AI agent does something different: it understands what the customer wrote in their own words and takes action. This article explains the difference so you can choose with confidence.<\/p>\n<h2>What a traditional chatbot does<\/h2>\n<p>It follows a decision tree built in advance. It works well for very predictable questions (opening hours, address), but it breaks when the customer goes off script, words things differently than expected or asks two questions at once. Every change requires someone to edit the tree by hand.<\/p>\n<h2>What an AI agent does<\/h2>\n<p>It interprets the message, answers using your business information and can carry out tasks: book a meeting on the calendar, open a support ticket or hand the conversation to a person when appropriate. It can also talk to visitors in their own language.<\/p>\n<h2>When each one fits<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A traditional chatbot is enough if your questions are few, always the same, and you do not need to book or hand off.<\/li>\n<li>An AI agent fits if you get varied questions, serve customers in more than one language or lose opportunities outside business hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What to check before choosing<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>What information it will use to answer, and who keeps it up to date.<\/li>\n<li>What actions it can perform (book, create tickets) and which always stay with a person.<\/li>\n<li>Which channels it covers: your website, WhatsApp or both.<\/li>\n<li>Which languages it answers in and how it handles the data people leave.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>How we solve it at IT-Connected<\/h2>\n<p>Tito, our AI agent, serves your customers on your website and on WhatsApp 24 hours a day, books meetings, opens support tickets and speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese, German and French. 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