<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Owlish Blog</title><description>Product updates, AI customer support playbooks, and operator workflow notes from Owlish.</description><link>https://owlish.bot/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Customer Support Chatbot Mistakes to Fix Before Launch</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/customer-support-chatbot-mistakes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/customer-support-chatbot-mistakes/</guid><description>The customer support chatbot mistakes that hurt trust, from weak sources and unsafe answers to bad handoff, poor metrics, and no post-launch review loop.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 23:15:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI customer support</category><category>Customer support chatbot</category><category>AI chatbot mistakes</category><category>AI guardrails</category><category>Human handoff</category><category>Citations</category></item><item><title>AI Customer Service Agent POC: A Practical Test Plan</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/ai-customer-service-agent-poc/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/ai-customer-service-agent-poc/</guid><description>A practical AI customer service agent POC plan for testing real support questions, citations, handoff quality, and post-launch improvement.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 23:10:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI customer support</category><category>AI customer service agent</category><category>AI agent POC</category><category>Customer support automation</category><category>Citations</category><category>Human handoff</category></item><item><title>Support Ticket Automation: What to Automate First</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/support-ticket-automation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/support-ticket-automation/</guid><description>A practical support ticket automation playbook for choosing AI-safe tickets, setting handoff rules, measuring quality, and avoiding bad deflection.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 03:35:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Customer support ops</category><category>Support ticket automation</category><category>AI helpdesk automation</category><category>Customer support automation</category><category>Human handoff</category><category>Citations</category></item><item><title>How to Build a Slack Support Bot</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/slack-support-bot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/slack-support-bot/</guid><description>A practical Slack support bot setup guide: pick the right use case, train on trusted sources, control channel behavior, and design human handoff.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 23:10:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Customer support ops</category><category>Slack support bot</category><category>Slack AI agent</category><category>Customer support automation</category><category>Human handoff</category><category>Knowledge base</category></item><item><title>How to Add an AI Chatbot to Your Website</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/ai-chatbot-for-website/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/ai-chatbot-for-website/</guid><description>A practical website chatbot setup guide for support teams: choose the first use case, prepare sources, test citations, install the widget, and plan handoff.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 23:07:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI customer support</category><category>AI chatbot for website</category><category>Website chatbot setup</category><category>Customer support</category><category>Citations</category><category>Human handoff</category></item><item><title>AI Support Handoff: When Bots Should Escalate</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/ai-support-handoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/ai-support-handoff/</guid><description>A practical AI support handoff playbook for deciding when a chatbot should stop, what context to pass, and how humans take over.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Customer support ops</category><category>AI support handoff</category><category>Customer support</category><category>Human handoff</category><category>Support operations</category><category>AI customer support</category></item><item><title>Build an AI Knowledge Base for Customer Support</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/ai-knowledge-base-customer-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/ai-knowledge-base-customer-support/</guid><description>An AI knowledge base for customer support needs more than uploaded docs. Here is how to structure sources, refresh cadence, citations, and handoff.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:45:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI customer support</category><category>AI knowledge base</category><category>Customer support</category><category>Citations</category><category>Knowledge ingestion</category><category>Human handoff</category></item><item><title>6 SiteGPT Alternatives for Customer Support Teams in 2026</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/sitegpt-alternatives/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/sitegpt-alternatives/</guid><description>Looking for a SiteGPT alternative? Here are six options for teams that need better support operations, clearer pricing, or stronger AI-to-human workflows, checked in May 2026.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 07:45:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Comparisons</category><category>SiteGPT</category><category>AI customer support</category><category>Human handoff</category><category>Support automation</category></item><item><title>6 Intercom Alternatives for AI Customer Support Teams in 2026</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/intercom-alternatives/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/intercom-alternatives/</guid><description>Looking for an Intercom alternative? Here are six options for teams comparing AI support quality, human handoff, and pricing shape, checked in May 2026.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 23:25:21 GMT</pubDate><category>Comparisons</category><category>Intercom</category><category>AI customer support</category><category>Human handoff</category><category>Pricing</category></item><item><title>5 Chatbase Alternatives for Customer Support Teams in 2026</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/chatbase-alternatives/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/chatbase-alternatives/</guid><description>Looking for a Chatbase alternative? Here are five options for teams that need grounded support, cleaner handoff, or a broader AI helpdesk, checked in May 2026.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:21:43 GMT</pubDate><category>Comparisons</category><category>Chatbase</category><category>AI customer support</category><category>Human handoff</category><category>Support automation</category></item><item><title>AI Customer Support Pricing: How to Compare Tools</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/ai-customer-support-pricing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/ai-customer-support-pricing/</guid><description>AI customer support pricing gets distorted by seats, resolutions, credits, and add-ons. 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Source-cited answers, multi-channel deployment, and a real handoff to your team — out of the box.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product updates</category><category>Launch</category><category>AI customer support</category><category>Citations</category><category>Human handoff</category></item><item><title>Why your AI support bot keeps making things up (and how to stop it)</title><link>https://owlish.bot/blog/why-grounded-answers-matter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://owlish.bot/blog/why-grounded-answers-matter/</guid><description>AI hallucinations in customer support aren&apos;t a quirk to manage — they&apos;re a defect. Here&apos;s how source-grounded answers, citations, and clean handoffs replace guessing with verifiable replies.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI customer support</category><category>Hallucinations</category><category>Citations</category><category>Human handoff</category><category>Support automation</category></item></channel></rss>