Custom AI assistants that plug into your business systems

We design, build and run AI assistants on OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and open-source models, connected to your CRM, your documents and your channels. Your team asks in plain language, the assistant answers from your data and acts on it.

  • Connected to your data
  • Any model, no lock-in
  • Deployed on your channels
  • ISO 27001 certified
An AI assistant chat helping a customer pick a product, with recommendations pulled from the company catalogue.

What is an AI assistant for business?

An AI assistant for business is a language model connected to your own systems and data, so it can answer questions and take actions inside your company instead of guessing from public information. The model supplies the reasoning. The value comes from what you connect it to.

A working business assistant has four parts:

  • A model that understands the request and decides what to do.
  • A knowledge layer that retrieves the right passage from your documents, policies and records, with the source attached.
  • Integrations that let it read and write in the tools you already run, from CRM to stock to calendars.
  • Channels that put it where the work happens: your website, Slack, Teams, WhatsApp or your product.
An AI assistant answering a customer chat, drafting a polite, context-aware reply pulled from the company knowledge base.

Benefits

What a connected AI assistant changes

  • Answers from your data, not the internet

    The assistant retrieves from your documents and records, and shows the source it used, so your team can check it.

  • It acts, not just replies

    Check an order, update a deal, book a slot, raise a ticket. The assistant finishes the task inside your systems.

  • Cover outside office hours

    Routine questions get answered at 2am the same way they do at 2pm, and anything unusual is handed to a person with the context attached.

  • No model lock-in

    We pick the model per task: cheap and fast for routine questions, frontier models for hard reasoning. OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Mistral and open-source models such as Llama are all on the table.

  • Independent of ChatGPT

    Your assistant runs on your website, in your product or in your messaging platform. Nobody needs a ChatGPT subscription to use it.

  • Built to pass an audit

    EU data residency, access controls that respect who may see what, and human oversight on the decisions that need it. We are ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified.

The stack

What we build your assistant from

Four layers, chosen per project. We are not tied to one vendor, which means the assistant can move when the market does.

  • Models

    Picked per task on cost, latency and reasoning quality, and swappable later.

    • OpenAI GPT
    • Anthropic Claude
    • Google Gemini
    • Mistral
    • Llama
  • Knowledge layer

    Retrieval over your own content so answers carry a source instead of a guess.

    • RAG pipelines
    • Vector databases
    • Document parsing
    • Access-scoped search
  • Integrations

    Read and write in the systems you already run, through the platforms we partner on.

    • Make.com
    • n8n
    • HubSpot
    • Airtable
    • Shopify
    • Custom APIs
  • Channels

    The assistant shows up where the work already happens.

    • Website widget
    • Slack
    • Microsoft Teams
    • WhatsApp
    • Telegram
    • In-product

Makeitfuture expertise

Backed by industry-recognised certifications and performance metrics

  • ISO 27001 certified
  • ISO 9001 certified
  • Make.com Platinum Partner
  • Make.com AI Partner of the Year
  • Certified Expert Partner
  • Boost.space Platinum Partner
  • HubSpot Partner
  • Zapier Partner
  • Airtable Gold Services Partner
  • 500+

    Clients

  • 15000+

    Automations

  • 7+

    Years of experience

Use-cases

The assistants companies actually ask us for

Four shapes cover most briefs. Each one connects to different systems, which is what decides the build.

01 / 04

  • Customer support assistant

    • Answers routine questions on your site, in chat and over WhatsApp, using your own policies and product data.
    • Escalates to a person the moment it is out of its depth, with the conversation and context attached.
    • Works as the first line of client service, so your team handles the cases that need judgement.

    Where the goal is resolving tickets end to end rather than answering questions, we build a dedicated customer support AI agent.

    An AI customer-chat assistant handling a support conversation in real time.
  • E-commerce and order assistant

    Typical connections:

    • Shopify, WooCommerce or your own store
    • Product catalogue and stock levels
    • Live order status and shipping updates
    • Creating and modifying orders
    • HubSpot chat and your CRM records

    It recommends from your real catalogue, checks a live order, and changes it after the conversation instead of promising someone will follow up.

    An AI assistant recommending products from a connected e-commerce catalogue inside a customer chat.
  • Internal assistant for your team

    A private assistant inside Slack, Teams, Telegram or WhatsApp, connected to the tools your team already lives in.

    Connected to HubSpot:

    • Ask for the top deals in your pipeline
    • Ask what is due or overdue
    • Pull customer or deal information mid-conversation
    • Create tasks, deals and contacts without leaving chat

    Connected to project tools such as ClickUp:

    • Check project status and pending work
    • Create tasks from a sentence
    An internal-support AI assistant inside a messaging app pulling deal data and creating new tasks on demand.
  • Knowledge assistant over your documents

    For companies sitting on contracts, case files, manuals or years of process documentation that nobody can search quickly.

    • Ask in plain language across tens of thousands of pages.
    • Every answer comes back with the source document attached, so it can be verified.
    • Handles scanned files, spreadsheets and handwritten material, not just clean text.
    • Access-scoped, so people only retrieve what they are allowed to see.

    This is the build behind our legal knowledge assistant, and it pairs well with contract and document automation.

    A knowledge assistant returning an answer from a company document library with the source file cited alongside it.

How we build it

From first conversation to an assistant your team trusts.

  1. 01

    Scope the job

    We pick the questions and tasks the assistant must handle, and agree the one number that says whether it worked. Vague briefs make assistants that demo well and get abandoned.

  2. 02

    Connect your data

    We map the documents, records and systems it needs, then build the retrieval and integrations so it reads and writes where the truth already lives.

  3. 03

    Build and evaluate

    We build the assistant, then test it against real questions from your business. Guardrails, escalation rules and access scoping are set here, not after launch.

  4. 04

    Deploy to your channels

    Website, Slack, Teams, WhatsApp or in-product. Your team starts using it against real traffic while we watch how it behaves.

  5. 05

    Measure and improve

    We review the conversations it got wrong, tune retrieval and prompts, and report against the number we set on day one.

  6. 06

    Run it, or hand it over

    Keep us on for monitoring, model updates and new integrations, or take ownership with the documentation and training to run it yourself.

ChatGPT versus a custom AI assistant

A ChatGPT subscription is a good writing tool. It is not a business system. This is where the two part company. If you want an assistant that lives inside the ChatGPT interface instead, that is custom GPT development.

Feature ChatGPT out of the box Your custom AI assistant
What it knows Public information from its training data, plus whatever a person pastes into the chat Your documents, records and live system data, retrieved on demand with the source attached
Taking action Describes what should happen and leaves the doing to a person Updates the CRM, checks an order, books the slot or raises the ticket inside your systems
Access control Whatever the person using it can see and paste Scoped per user and per role, so nobody retrieves what they are not allowed to see
Where it runs Inside the ChatGPT interface, and everyone needs an account Your website, product, Slack, Teams or WhatsApp, with no subscription needed to use it
Model choice Whatever OpenAI ships, on OpenAI's timetable Chosen per task across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Mistral and open-source models, and swappable later
Cost shape A licence per seat, whether or not the seat uses it A build cost, then usage that scales with the work it actually does

Pricing

What an AI assistant costs

Pilot assistant

popular

One use-case, one or two integrations, deployed on a single channel so you can prove the value before committing. Typically live in 3 to 4 weeks, quoted fixed-price after scoping.

Production assistant

Multiple use-cases, retrieval over your document library, several integrations and channels, with evaluation and guardrails. Typically 6 to 10 weeks, quoted fixed-price after scoping.

Managed and ongoing

We monitor conversations, tune retrieval, handle model updates and add integrations as you grow. Billed monthly, scaled to usage and the number of systems connected.

FAQ about AI assistants

  • How much does a custom AI assistant cost?

    A pilot assistant covering one use-case with a couple of integrations is the usual starting point, and a full production assistant with retrieval over your documents costs several times that. The three things that move the number are how many systems it has to read and write in, how much cleaning your data needs, and how many channels and languages it runs on. We quote fixed-price after a scoping call, so you are not signing up to an open-ended build.

  • How is an AI assistant different from ChatGPT?

    ChatGPT answers from public training data. It cannot see this morning's orders, your pricing rules or your contracts, and it cannot update a record when the conversation ends. A custom assistant is connected to your systems, answers from your own content with the source attached, respects who is allowed to see what, and completes the task rather than describing it.

  • We built on the OpenAI Assistants API. What happens on 26 August 2026?

    OpenAI removes the Assistants API on 26 August 2026, and calls to the assistants and threads endpoints stop working. There is no automated tool for moving your existing threads across, so anything built on it needs porting to the Responses and Conversations APIs, or to another provider. We do these migrations, and we usually take the opportunity to make the assistant model-independent so the next deprecation is a configuration change rather than a rebuild. If you are on it today, talk to us well before the date.

  • Which models do you build on?

    We pick per task rather than per vendor. Fast, low-cost models handle routine questions, and frontier models handle the reasoning that needs them. We work with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Mistral and open-source models such as Llama, and we design the assistant so the model can be swapped without rewriting the integrations around it.

  • How long does it take to build?

    A pilot covering one use-case is usually live in 3 to 4 weeks. A production assistant with retrieval over your document library, several integrations and multiple channels typically runs 6 to 10 weeks. The variable is almost never the AI. It is how quickly we can get clean access to your data and systems.

  • Can it connect to the tools we already use?

    Yes. We are a Make.com Platinum Partner and work daily with n8n, HubSpot, Airtable, Shopify and custom APIs, which is how the assistant reads live data and writes back into your systems. If a tool has an API, it can be connected. If it does not, we usually find another route into the same data.

  • Where does our data live, and is it secure?

    We build for EU data residency, scope retrieval so people only reach what their role permits, and keep human oversight on the decisions that warrant it. Makeitfuture is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, and we design assistants to be reviewable, so you can show an auditor why the assistant answered the way it did.

  • Will it replace our team?

    No. It takes the repetitive questions and the lookups, so your people spend their time on the work that needs judgement. In practice the assistant handles the first line and hands anything unusual to a person with the full context attached, which is faster for the customer and less tedious for the team.

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