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General
6What is NIRO?
NIRO is an AI assistant for small and mid-sized businesses, built by CodePrism Technologies. It answers customer questions from your own content, books appointments into a real calendar, and works on your website, WhatsApp, Instagram, email and voice. Someone on your team can take over any conversation at any time.
Who is NIRO for?
Small and mid-sized businesses that get customer messages on more than one channel. NIRO is built for businesses such as clinics and dental practices, salons and spas, real estate agencies, hotels and tourism, education and training centres, retail and e-commerce, professional services and other local businesses that take appointments.
How is NIRO different from a regular chatbot?
Most chatbots follow scripted flows or send people to a separate booking link. NIRO gives real answers from content you have approved, runs a real booking system inside the conversation, and uses one shared brain across your website, WhatsApp, Instagram, email and voice.
Is NIRO a separate bot for each channel?
No. NIRO is one assistant with one knowledge base, one calendar and one customer record. The same answers, bookings and customer history apply whether someone messages your website, WhatsApp or Instagram.
Why not just use ChatGPT?
ChatGPT doesn't know your prices, your staff or your calendar, and it isn't connected to your WhatsApp or Instagram. NIRO answers from your own approved content, books into your real schedule and keeps a record of every customer.
What if the AI says something wrong?
NIRO answers only from content you have approved. Prices, opening hours and durations you enter as business facts come back exactly as you wrote them. Your team can rate any reply and take over a conversation in one click.
Channels
4Which channels does NIRO work on?
Your website chat widget, WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, email and voice in the browser. Your team can also manage Instagram comments from the NIRO dashboard.
How do I add NIRO to my website?
Paste one code snippet into your site, just before the closing body tag. It works on any website or CMS and takes about 5 minutes.
Can I make the website widget match my brand?
Yes. You can set colours, position, logo, font and launcher text, with a live preview before saving. You can also add a pre-chat form, ready-made FAQ buttons, and shortcut buttons to WhatsApp, Instagram, email and voice.
Can customers send photos?
Yes, on your website (up to 5 per message), WhatsApp and Instagram. Your team sees every photo in the inbox. The assistant reads any caption, but it does not analyse the image itself.
Can I keep using WhatsApp on my phone?
Yes. NIRO uses Meta's Coexistence, so you connect the number you already use with the WhatsApp Business app. When you reply from your phone, the assistant goes quiet on that chat until someone presses Resume assistant in the dashboard.
How long does WhatsApp setup take?
About 20 to 40 minutes, one time, using Meta's official Embedded Signup. Have your Facebook login, the business phone with the WhatsApp Business app, and a card for Meta's billing ready.
Does NIRO understand WhatsApp voice notes?
Yes. Voice notes are transcribed and answered just like typed messages.
How does NIRO handle WhatsApp's 24-hour reply window?
WhatsApp only allows flexible replies within 24 hours of the customer's last message. The NIRO inbox shows the time left, and outside the window only approved templates are sent. Booking confirmation, reminder and cancellation templates are created for you in each customer language.
Who pays for WhatsApp messages?
Meta bills WhatsApp conversation charges directly to your business, on your own Meta account.
Does NIRO answer Instagram DMs?
Yes. The same assistant answers Instagram DMs in the same inbox, with product carousels and tappable choices. You need an Instagram Professional account (Business or Creator).
Does NIRO reply to Instagram comments?
Your team can reply publicly, reply privately by DM, hide or delete comments, all from the NIRO dashboard. The AI does not reply to comments automatically.
How does the email channel work?
The assistant gets its own address on your domain and answers customer emails in the same thread. Your team works in the same inbox: read mail, reply as a human, compose new emails, save drafts, and attach up to 5 files of 10 MB each.
How long does email setup take?
About 10 minutes, plus adding a few DNS records at your domain provider and waiting for them to take effect.
Voice
2Does NIRO have a voice assistant?
Yes, inside the website widget. Customers press the voice button, speak, and hear the answer spoken back. It uses the same knowledge as chat, can book appointments, and lets customers interrupt mid-answer. Voice is strongest in English today.
Can NIRO answer or make phone calls?
Not yet. Voice works in the browser widget only; there is no phone number or telephone line today.
Booking
8Can NIRO book appointments?
Yes. Customers are guided through category, service, staff member, date, time and contact details, then confirm. Bookings are checked against your staff's real working hours, so the assistant can't invent a slot or double-book. It works on your website, WhatsApp, Instagram and voice.
Can customers reschedule or cancel?
Yes, from My Bookings in the same chat. Every booking has a reference number. Your team can also book, reschedule or cancel on a customer's behalf from the dashboard.
Does NIRO send appointment reminders?
Yes. Confirmations and reminders go out by email and/or WhatsApp, in the customer's own language, anywhere from 1 minute to 7 days before the appointment.
How do staff working hours work?
Set weekly hours for each person, with several time ranges per day, plus one-off exceptions for holidays and days off. Blocking a day automatically cancels the appointments on it and tells the customers.
Can I customise the booking questions?
Yes. Add a welcome message, your own questions (free text, single choice or multiple choice), notes, and customer-detail questions that save straight into the customer record.
Can I track no-shows and feedback?
Yes. Mark appointments as done, record no-shows, and capture a rating from 1 to 5 with written feedback.
Does NIRO support group classes?
Not yet. Bookings are one customer with one staff member. Group classes and capacity-based sessions are not supported today.
Does NIRO sync with Google Calendar or Outlook?
Not yet. NIRO has its own built-in calendar, and it supports Calendly and Odoo.
Customer records
3Does NIRO include a CRM?
Yes. Everyone who talks to the assistant becomes a contact automatically, with name, email, mobile, Instagram handle, last channel, language, timezone, booking history, number of visits and days since the last visit. You can add your own custom fields and filter on any of them.
Can I import my existing contacts?
Yes. Import from CSV or Excel, up to 5,000 rows at a time. AI matches your spreadsheet columns to the right fields automatically.
Does NIRO score leads?
There is no automatic lead score today. The assistant captures details and writes qualification notes onto each contact. It asks for at most one missing detail, such as email or phone, and no more than twice per conversation.
Inbox and handoff
3Is there one inbox for every channel?
Yes. Website, WhatsApp, Instagram and email conversations sit in one list with full history, updated live.
How does human takeover work?
Press Connect and you're in the conversation. The assistant steps back and the customer sees that they are connected to you, in the same thread. Only one team member can own a conversation at a time. If you go quiet for 2 minutes, the assistant picks the conversation back up.
What happens when the assistant can't help?
It alerts your team by in-app notification, browser push, and email to team members who aren't online. If the customer asks for a person, the alert is immediate.
Campaigns
2Can I send WhatsApp marketing campaigns?
Yes. Create templates with images, video, PDFs, buttons or carousels, choose an audience from your customer list using any filter, personalise each message, then send now or schedule. Track sent, delivered, read and failed per recipient. Up to 100,000 recipients per campaign.
Is NIRO a WhatsApp broadcast tool?
No. NIRO is an AI assistant first: it answers questions, books appointments and hands conversations to your team. WhatsApp campaigns are an add-on that lets you reach your existing customers, for example to tell them about a new offer.
Knowledge and languages
6How do I teach NIRO about my business?
Upload documents (PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, TXT, Markdown, JSON or HTML, up to 10 MB each), add web pages and images, and type in key business facts. Files process in the background and you're notified when each is ready.
Do I approve what the assistant learns?
Yes. Uploaded content is tidied into a clean, structured version you can review and edit. Nothing reaches customers until you approve it.
Can NIRO learn from my website?
Yes, one page at a time: paste a URL and it reads that page. It does not crawl a whole site, and your website domain must be verified first.
What are business facts?
The details that must always be right: services with price, duration and staff, opening hours, plans, locations and policies. They come back exactly as written, in the customer's language. NIRO can draft them from your documents for you to approve.
Does my content need to be in English?
Yes, knowledge content must be in English today. Customers can still ask and be answered in their own language.
What languages does NIRO speak?
NIRO detects the language the customer writes in, replies in that language and remembers it for next time. That covers Spanish, Catalan, Hindi, Arabic and any other language Google Translate supports. Menus, business facts, reminders and confirmations are translated too. Voice is strongest in English.
Security
4Is my data kept separate from other businesses?
Yes. Each business's knowledge, customers, conversations and bookings are isolated. Secrets such as AI keys and integration credentials are encrypted with AES-256, WhatsApp traffic is signature-checked, and customer photos and attachments are stored privately.
Can I control what my team can do?
Yes. Admins run everything, Associates take appointments and manage their own hours, and Agents can only read and reply in the inbox. One person can hold several roles, and one login can manage more than one business.
Can NIRO run on our own servers?
Not as standard. NIRO is a hosted service that uses OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs. A private deployment would be a custom project with CodePrism.
Can people trick the assistant?
Attempts like 'ignore your instructions' or 'show me your prompt' are blocked before they reach the assistant, and it keeps its instructions and sources confidential.
Setup and integrations
4How long does it take to get started?
Your website assistant can be live the same afternoon. Sign up, pick a role, upload your documents and paste one snippet. The main thing that takes time is getting your content ready.
What do I need before I start?
A business email, access to your website's domain settings and your business documents. For WhatsApp you also need your Facebook login, the business phone with the WhatsApp Business app, and a card for Meta's billing.
Do I need a developer?
No for the website, WhatsApp, Instagram and knowledge setup. Custom API actions that connect NIRO to your own systems need a technical person to configure.
Can NIRO connect to our own system?
Yes. You can define API actions the assistant calls, for example checking an order status or a balance, and it tells the customer the result.