Service 05 · WhatsApp & SMS chatbots

Conversations that qualify, answer and follow up.

In India, WhatsApp is not a marketing channel bolted onto the funnel. For a large share of businesses it is the funnel: the enquiry arrives there, the negotiation happens there, and the order confirmation is expected there. A brand that answers in ninety seconds beats a brand that answers the next morning, almost regardless of price.

24/7
First response, every day
Official API
Verified sender, no grey routes
CRM linked
Every conversation logged

Brands we work with

Teams we run whatsapp & sms chatbots and more for.

  • FABCO Engineers logo
  • Himavaan logo
  • Usharo Media logo
  • Sida Digital logo

In short

We build conversational systems that make that speed possible without hiring a night shift, automated where automation genuinely helps, and handed to a human the moment it does not.

Selected work

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Work we are happy to put our name on.

A small, real portfolio rather than a wall of borrowed logos. Websites, short form video and campaign design produced for clients who are still running the work today.

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Built on the official Business API

Everything we build runs on the official WhatsApp Business Platform through an approved provider, with your business verified and your green tick pursued where you qualify. Unofficial automation tools that drive a personal WhatsApp account are cheap, fragile and get numbers banned, usually the number printed on all your packaging.

Setup covers business verification, display name approval, message template submission, opt in capture that satisfies platform policy, and quality rating monitoring so your messaging limits rise rather than fall. SMS runs alongside on registered DLT templates, which matters for transactional reliability when a customer is out of data.

We also make the boring decisions properly: which number to use, whether to keep an existing one, how the team's shared inbox works, escalation rules, and what happens on a public holiday at 11pm.

Lead qualification
Structured questions that route serious enquiries to sales and filter the rest.
Customer support
Instant answers to the twenty questions your team types out every single day.
Cart and order flows
Abandoned cart nudges, payment links, order confirmations and delivery updates.
Campaign messaging
Opt in broadcasts with segmentation, throttling and clear opt out handling.
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Designing a conversation people tolerate

The failure mode of chatbots is well known: a cheerful loop that never understands the question and never offers a human. We design against it. Every flow has a visible escape to a person, remembers what the customer already said, and confirms understanding before acting.

Flows are written from your real message history. We read what customers actually ask, in the words they use, including the mix of English and the local language they type in, and script the bot to match. Chennai enquiries and Delhi enquiries rarely sound the same, and a script written for one reads as odd in the other.

Where a large language model layer genuinely helps, open ended product questions, catalogue search, summarising a long enquiry for the sales team, we add it on top of a controlled knowledge base, with guardrails so it declines rather than invents. Pricing, availability and policy answers stay tied to your systems, never generated.

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Connected to where the work happens

A conversation that ends inside a chat window is a lost record. We connect the bot to your CRM, your store and your ticketing tool, so a qualified lead becomes an assigned task with context attached, an order query pulls live status, and the sales team never asks a customer to repeat what they already typed.

Handover to humans runs through a shared agent inbox with assignment, notes, canned replies and response time reporting. For most clients the useful metric is not how many messages the bot handled but how many enquiries reached a human faster than they used to.

Everything is measured: conversation volume, deflection rate, qualified leads created, cart recovery revenue, response times by hour, and where in each flow people drop out, which is where the script gets rewritten next month.

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Where it pays off fastest

Ecommerce brands see it first in cart recovery and order status deflection. Clinics and education businesses see it in booking and admission enquiries handled outside office hours. Real estate teams see it in the first ninety seconds after a portal lead arrives, which is usually the whole game.

The other quiet benefit is a data one. Structured conversations reveal what customers ask before buying, in their own words, in volume, which then improves your ad copy, your product pages and your SEO content far more reliably than a keyword tool does.

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Who this is for

Conversational channels earn their place when your team answers the same questions repeatedly, when leads go cold because nobody replied in the first hour, or when customers are already messaging you and the inbox has quietly become unmanageable.

Clinics, schools, real estate teams, service businesses and stores with high enquiry volume see the fastest return. So do sales teams working leads from paid media, where reply speed is the single biggest lever on conversion.

It is not a fit for businesses with very low enquiry volume, or for anyone hoping to replace a sales team entirely. The value is in filtering, answering and routing, so people spend their time on conversations that deserve a person.

Best fit
High enquiry volume, repeatable questions, teams that need faster first response.
Weak fit
Low volume enquiries or complex consultative sales that need a human from the first message.
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Compliance, templates and doing this the official way

We work on the official WhatsApp Business API through approved providers. That means verified business profiles, template messages submitted and approved properly, opt in captured and stored, and clear opt out on every broadcast.

Doing it unofficially through unapproved tools risks the number your customers already have saved. We have picked up enough of that cleanup work to be blunt about it: the shortcut is not worth the recovery.

Message design matters as much as compliance. Templates are written to sound like your business, not a system notification, with a clear next step in every message and a human handover that carries the full conversation context across.

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What a working setup looks like after ninety days

A typical build handles the twenty questions your team retypes daily, qualifies new enquiries with three or four questions, books or routes the good ones, and hands anything unusual to a person with the history attached.

Behind it sits reporting: volume by hour, the questions that come up most, where conversations stall, response times by agent and the share of enquiries resolved without human involvement. Those numbers drive the monthly refinements.

Broadcast is used sparingly and only against opted in lists, for appointment reminders, order updates, restocks and genuinely relevant offers. Read rates on these channels are extremely high, which is exactly why they are easy to abuse and worth protecting.

What is included

Deliverables, spelled out.

Scope is agreed in writing before we start, so there is never a debate later about whether something was part of the engagement.

  • 01WhatsApp Business API setup and verification
  • 02DLT registration and SMS template approval
  • 03Conversation design and script writing
  • 04Chatbot build with human handover rules
  • 05CRM, store and helpdesk integration
  • 06Broadcast campaign setup with opt in management
  • 07Agent inbox configuration and team training
  • 08Monthly performance and flow optimisation review
The difference

What makes DG5 different from a typical WhatsApp & SMS chatbots agency.

How our WhatsApp & SMS chatbots delivery model compares to two common alternatives businesses evaluate. Typical industry norms, not any specific competitor, so you can benchmark on capability and transparency rather than marketing claims.

DG5 Agency

Strategy depth

DG5:End to end funnel strategy

Boutique:Strong in one niche

Network:Templated playbook

Team on your account

DG5:The strategist who scoped it stays on it

Boutique:Founder plus a small team

Network:Rotating account managers

Reporting

DG5:Live dashboard tied to leads and revenue

Boutique:Monthly call and deck

Network:PDF only

Scope

DG5:Web, SEO, ads and automation together

Boutique:One or two channels

Network:Separate channel silos

Turnaround

DG5:Weekly shipping cadence

Boutique:Fast but capacity limited

Network:Queued behind bigger retainers

When something fails

DG5:Flagged with the reason and the fix

Boutique:Depends on the founder

Network:Quietly dropped from the report

Contract

DG5:Flexible terms, earned monthly

Boutique:Flexible but informal

Network:Long lock ins

This comparison reflects our own delivery model and common evaluation criteria clients use when comparing agencies in Bangalore, not a claim about any specific competitor.

Proof

What clients say about working with us.

FABCO Engineers logo
"DG5 rebuilt our site and aligned our SEO and paid lead generation around the product categories that actually drive enquiries. The leads that come in now already understand what we do before the first call."
Reji George · Founder, FABCO Engineers
Himavaan logo
"The travel content and video work DG5 produces feels like our own voice, just louder. Their reels and campaign posters have directly filled departure slots we would otherwise have struggled to close."
Enosh · Founder, Himavaan
Usharo Media logo
"DG5 runs our social channels, paid campaigns and website updates as one rhythm. The best part is the reporting: we know which post, which ad and which landing page moved the needle."
Preetha Arockia · Manager, Usharo Media
Sequence

How the work runs.

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Read the transcripts

We study your real enquiries and support history to find the questions worth automating.

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Design and connect

Flows scripted, templates approved, integrations wired to CRM and store, handover rules agreed.

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Refine

Monthly review of drop off points, deflection and recovered revenue, with the script rewritten where it fails.

Questions

What clients ask before signing.

Do we need a new phone number?

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Not necessarily. An existing number can be migrated to the Business API if it is not currently active on the WhatsApp app. Many businesses prefer a dedicated number so the personal one stays separate, we advise based on how yours is used today.

What does it cost to run?

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Beyond the build and management, you pay Meta's per conversation charges by category and your provider's platform fee. We estimate the monthly running cost from your expected volume before you commit to anything.

Can it handle Hindi, Tamil or Kannada?

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Yes. Flows can be built multilingual with language detection, and templates are approved per language. For mixed script typing, which is very common, we script for the way people actually write rather than formal grammar.

Will it annoy our customers?

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Only if it is built badly. We keep broadcasts opt in and infrequent, always offer a human, and monitor quality rating and opt out rate as first class metrics rather than afterthoughts.

Do we need a new phone number?

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Not necessarily. An existing number can be migrated to the Business API, though it can then no longer be used in the consumer WhatsApp app. We walk through the tradeoff before anything changes.

How much do WhatsApp messages cost?

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Meta charges per conversation and rates vary by category and country. Those costs are billed by the platform provider, so you see them directly rather than marked up through us.

Can it hand over to our team?

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Yes. Handover is built in, with the full conversation history, working hours rules and a fallback message when nobody is available.

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