The knowledge base is what your AI assistant draws on to answer customer questions. Without it, the assistant can still hold a basic conversation and capture leads — but specific answers (prices, services, policies) need your data.
OzcenkLabs supports two types of knowledge:
- Catalog items — structured entries like services, treatments, or products. The sidebar label adapts to your sector (Services or Products). Best for anything with a name, price, stock, or duration.
- Documents — free-form text like FAQs, policy PDFs, internal procedures, sector-specific information. Best for prose knowledge that doesn't fit a price-list shape.
The AI retrieves the most relevant entries from both sources for every message using semantic search — so a customer asking "Do you offer Saturday appointments?" gets the right answer even if your document says "weekend availability".
Adding catalog items
In the dashboard sidebar you'll see a section named for your sector: Services (dental, beauty) or Products (internal medicine). The form fields adapt too — for example, a dental clinic captures treatment duration.
You can add items three ways:
- Manual — click the Add button and fill the form. Best for <20 items.
- CSV import — download the template, fill it in a spreadsheet, upload. Best for 20+ items or migrating from another system.
- Edit — update prices and stock anytime. Changes are re-embedded automatically (you don't have to do anything).
Each item is automatically converted into a vector embedding so the AI can find it through semantic similarity. You don't need to do anything special — every create, update, and delete syncs in the background.
Adding documents
Go to AI Knowledge Base in the sidebar, give the document a title and paste in your text — FAQs, policies, pricing notes, anything your patients ask about. (Have a PDF or Word doc? Just copy the text and paste it in.)
What happens behind the scenes:
- The document is split into ~800-character chunks with a 100-character overlap (so context isn't lost at boundaries).
- Each chunk is embedded and stored in the same searchable index as your products.
- When a customer asks a question, the top matches across products and documents are passed to the AI as context.
What to add
Good candidates:
- FAQ documents — customers will ask the same questions.
- Cancellation, refund, no-show policies.
- Insurance, payment methods, accepted documents.
- Practitioner bios, specialties, languages.
- Office directions, parking, accessibility.
- Sector-specific knowledge (treatments, materials, brands carried).
What NOT to add
- Patient or customer personal data — the AI doesn't need it to chat and you'd be exposing it to retrieval.
- Login credentials, API keys, or anything sensitive.
- Outdated documents. The AI will quote whatever it finds. Remove old versions before adding new ones.
How the AI uses the knowledge base
Every customer message triggers a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) flow:
- The customer message is embedded as a vector and compared against your stored products and documents.
- The top relevant chunks are added to the AI's context window.
- The AI generates a reply using your sector's tone, your knowledge base, and the customer's conversation history.
- If something specific is requested (a price, a service the customer named), the AI quotes it directly from your data — not from general knowledge.
Tips for accurate answers
- Be specific. "Cleaning: £45, takes 30 minutes" beats "We offer cleaning".
- Use your customers' words. If they say "braces", your document should too — even if you'd call it "orthodontic treatment" in a brochure.
- Keep documents short and focused. One topic per document is easier for the AI to retrieve than a 50-page handbook.
- Update when you change. Prices, availability, hours — if your real-world reality shifts, update the knowledge base the same day.
Re-syncing products
If you bulk-imported products via CSV and the AI seems to be missing them, go to AI Knowledge Base and click the Product Sync button. This re-embeds all your products in one shot. Useful after a large import or when migrating from another system.
Trial limits
The 14-day free trial includes a 500-message quota across all your conversations. There's no fixed cap on the number of products or documents you can store — focus on quality over quantity. See Terms for paid plan details.
Next steps
- Test the AI's answers using the embedded preview.
- Iterate. The first knowledge base is rarely the final one — refine based on real conversations in the Live Chats module.