How saavos is being built.

A visitor lands on your site at 11pm. They have one question — “does this work with Webflow?” — and you don't have live chat. They bounce. You never know it happened. This plays out on solopreneur and small SaaS sites hundreds of times a day.

The cheap fix is a template chatbot: pick from 12 canned flows, watch visitors ignore it. The “real” fix is Intercom or Drift — $65+ per seat, built for a team of five support agents you don't have yet. Somewhere in between there's a tier of AI chatbot products that charge per resolution. Your bot has a good week on Reddit and you get a surprise invoice. Fun.

What I wanted was simple: point it at my site, get a bot that actually knows what's on my site, embed it in five minutes. Flat pricing so I stop thinking about cost per chat. Frontier model because confident hallucination is worse than no bot at all. Nobody was selling that combination at a price that makes sense for a pre-revenue product.

You paste a URL. saavos fetches your site, chunks the content, embeds it with text-embedding-3-small, and stores it in pgvector on Supabase. When a visitor asks a question, it retrieves the right chunks and runs them through Claude Sonnet — the frontier model, not the economy one. Citations ship on by default so the bot links back to your real content instead of confabulating.

Pricing is flat: $19 / $49 / $199 per month. No per-resolution billing. No per-seat charges. Your bot has a big week? Same bill. Quiet month? Same bill. The Starter plan gets Claude just like Business does — I didn't want to gate the model and then wonder why Starter churn is high.

For builders: there's an SDK and REST API on every paid plan. Data is scoped to your account — no cross-tenant leakage by design, Row Level Security on every table from day one. The embed widget is a single script tag. Webflow, Shopify, WordPress — paste it in the footer and you're done.

Pre-revenue. The product is production-hardening — billing webhooks, ingest pipeline, embed widget. Payments run through Dodo Payments as merchant-of-record so I don't touch tax compliance myself. First paying customer is still ahead of me.

Infra: Supabase (Postgres + pgvector + Auth + Storage), Vercel for hosting, Resend for transactional email. No third-party support tool, no analytics bloat, no cookie banner. Stack is locked and boring on purpose — boring infra means I spend time on product, not ops.

The 6 blog posts cover the comparisons people actually search: Chatbase alternatives, Shopify chatbot setup, Webflow chatbot (no code), reducing SaaS churn, chatbot from a PDF, and Tidio alternatives. They bring in organic traffic. they're also just useful articles, which is the only content strategy I can sustain solo.