An AI employee that helps businesses sell products, support customers, process orders, guide payments, and automate operations—24/7.
Watch ChatDev automate:
- Customer enquiries
- Product recommendations
- Order processing
- Payment guidance
- Order tracking
Watch Chatdev in action: https://youtu.be/p9VUHjJlMRE
Small businesses rarely lose customers because they have bad products.
They lose them because they can't respond fast enough.
A customer sends a message while the owner is busy.
Another wants to compare products.
Someone else needs payment instructions.
Another customer is waiting for an order update.
By the time the business owner replies, the customer has already moved on.
ChatDev acts as an AI commerce employee.
Instead of functioning as a simple chatbot, it understands the business, answers customer questions, recommends products, receives orders, guides customers through payment, and helps customers track their purchases—all through natural conversation.
The goal is simple:
- Respond instantly.
- Reduce repetitive work.
- Improve customer experience.
- Help businesses sell more.
- Understands customer intent
- Maintains conversational context
- Answers business questions naturally
- Displays products with images
- Shows prices and descriptions
- Recommends relevant products
- Guides customers through payment
- Integrates payment workflows
- Confirms successful transactions
- Retrieves customer orders
- Displays delivery status
- Keeps customers informed
ChatDev combines conversational AI, business knowledge, workflow automation, and backend services into a single commerce platform.
Customer requests flow through the frontend into the AI conversation layer, which retrieves business knowledge, communicates with backend APIs, triggers workflow automation, and returns contextual responses in real time.
✅ AI-powered customer conversations
✅ Product recommendations
✅ Business knowledge retrieval
✅ Order processing
✅ Payment guidance
✅ Order tracking
✅ Workflow automation with n8n
✅ REST API integrations
✅ PocketBase backend
- Nuxt 3
- Vue 3
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- PocketBase
- REST APIs
- Node.js
- n8n
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Prompt Engineering
- Business Knowledge Retrieval
ChatDev wasn't built in a weekend.
The project has evolved through continuous user testing, product validation, and iterative improvements.
Recent improvements include:
- Improved multi-product rendering
- Better shopping experience
- Refined AI conversations
- Enhanced payment workflow
- Cleaner product recommendations
- UI improvements based on real user feedback
Every improvement is driven by real customer behaviour rather than assumptions.
Project documentation is available in the /docs directory.
- System Architecture
- API Overview
- Roadmap
- Changelog
- WhatsApp integration
- Voice AI
- CRM integrations
- RAG implementation
- Vector database support
- Multi-business support
- Analytics dashboard
Deborah Onyealilam
Full-Stack Developer • AI Agent Developer • Product Validation & Scope Strategist
Building AI employees that help businesses sell, support customers, and automate operations.
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