Most chatbots fail. Here's why.
A chatbot only earns its place if it can do three things. Most products that ship a "chatbot" ship one of two things: a decision tree dressed up as AI, or a raw LLM hooked up to a chat box. Both fail the same way. The user asks something real and gets back something useless.
A chatbot worth shipping does three jobs at once. Grounding pulls the answer from your actual product data, like order status, plan terms, or the user's account, not from a hallucination. Action does the thing the user asked for. It cancels the booking, refunds the charge, opens the ticket, instead of redirecting them to a form. Escalation hands off to a human the moment the question is out of scope, with the conversation context already attached.