saavos is a chatbot you point at your website and get a working bot in five minutes — Claude under the hood, citations on by default, flat pricing. We built it because nothing on the market hit all three at once.
One platform took an afternoon to configure flows, another shipped on GPT-3.5 at the entry tier, a third charged $99 per seat for features a solopreneur doesn't need yet. The ones that were fast used cheaper models and confidently hallucinated. The ones that ran frontier models were priced for enterprise procurement.
We wanted three things in one product: five-minute setup, a frontier model on the entry tier, and a bill that doesn't spike when traffic does. When no existing platform did all three, we built one.
The name is the promise. If a visitor lands on your site and finds five minutes between paste-URL and live-bot is too long, the rest of the comparison doesn't matter. Every feature decision starts with: does this keep time-to-first-bot under five minutes?
A bot live on your site in five minutes that handles your top thirty questions beats a bot you spend five hours configuring that handles your top hundred. Time-to-first-value is the only metric that matters when a solopreneur is evaluating a tool with twelve other tabs open.
We charge flat tiers — free, $9, $24 — with no per-message billing on any plan, ever. Your bot has a great week on Reddit? Your bill doesn't spike. Your bot has a quiet month? You don't feel ripped off.
A bot that says "I think it's $19" is worse than no bot — the visitor leaves with the wrong number. A bot that says "Pricing is $19 [source]" with a verifiable link is the foundation of trust. We ship citations on by default.
Every paid tier ships the latest Claude. When Anthropic releases an upgrade, you get it — no "available on the top tier" gate, no token-budget adjustment, no migration paperwork. The frontier model is the floor, not the ceiling.
saavos is in active development with a public changelog — features ship weekly and every deploy is documented. Payments run through Dodo Payments as merchant of record, retrieval is citation-grounded at production thresholds, and the roadmap is open for anyone to read.
Marketing design system across /about, /compare, /status, /changelog, /faq. Five vendor comparisons with always-newest- model commitment. FAQ with 20+ questions. Blog cluster with auto-computed reading time. Citation-grounded retrieval at production thresholds.
Live-agent handoff, embed-widget theming, sitemap-based bulk URL import, multi-channel (WhatsApp, Slack). Lands on the changelog when it ships — we don't pre-promise roadmap items.
Every win, breakage, and lesson lands on the blog and the changelog. If you want to see how a SaaS product actually gets built from zero, that's what we're publishing.
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