Tutorial
Build an AI Customer Support Chatbot in 20 Minutes
An honest look at when AI chatbots actually help your business — plus a working Python demo you can clone and run right now.
Apr 19, 20267 min
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AI engineer helping startups and businesses ship chatbots, RAG systems, automation workflows, and intelligent applications — from idea to production.
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Services
What I Build
AI-powered software tailored to your business — not generic tools, not science projects.
AI Chatbots & Assistants
Customer support, sales, and internal knowledge bots that connect to your data and workflows. Not template chatbots — custom-built for your use case.
OpenAILangChainNext.js
RAG Systems
Connect LLMs to your documents, databases, and knowledge base so they answer with your data, not hallucinations.
Vector SearchEmbeddingsPinecone
LLM Integration
Add AI capabilities to your existing app or website — summarization, classification, generation, extraction — without rebuilding everything.
API IntegrationOpenAIAnthropic
AI Automation
Replace manual, repetitive workflows with intelligent automation that handles decisions, not just triggers.
Pythonn8nCustom Pipelines
Custom AI Web Apps
Full-stack AI-powered applications built from scratch — dashboards, tools, platforms with AI at the core.
Next.jsReactPythonAWS
Internal Tools & Dashboards
Admin panels, analytics dashboards, and internal tools enhanced with AI features your team will actually use.
Full-StackData VizAI-Enhanced
Work
Selected Work
Recent projects and systems I've designed and built.
AI SaaS
MarkBase AI
Co-founded and built the AI architecture behind MarkBase — a natural-language marketing intelligence platform that unifies Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and GA into a single command layer for mid-market teams.
AWS LambdaDynamoDBOpenAIGoogle Ads APIMeta Marketing API
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Automation
Inventory Sync Automation
Built an automation pipeline that reduced a 4-day manual inventory sync process to minutes for a multi-channel e-commerce business selling across Shopify, Amazon, and eBay.
PythonPandasCSV Pipelines
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How I Work
From first conversation to deployed system — a clear, collaborative process.
01
Discover
We talk about your problem, users, and goals. I ask hard questions early so we build the right thing.
02
Architect
I design the system — data flow, AI components, integrations, UX — and present a clear technical plan before writing code.
03
Build
Iterative development with weekly demos. You see progress early, not a big reveal at the end.
04
Ship & Support
Deployment to production, monitoring, documentation, and ongoing support as your needs evolve.
01
Discover
We talk about your problem, users, and goals. I ask hard questions early so we build the right thing.
02
Architect
I design the system — data flow, AI components, integrations, UX — and present a clear technical plan before writing code.
03
Build
Iterative development with weekly demos. You see progress early, not a big reveal at the end.
04
Ship & Support
Deployment to production, monitoring, documentation, and ongoing support as your needs evolve.
Blog
Latest Articles
Writing about AI engineering, building intelligent systems, and practical automation.
Automation
AI Automation vs. Traditional Automation: When to Use Each (With a Hands-On Tutorial)
Traditional automation handles rules. AI automation handles judgment. Learn the difference, see real cost data, and build a hybrid invoice processor with OpenAI and Python.
Apr 12, 20267 min
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AI Engineering
Building a RAG System That Doesn't Hallucinate
A practical guide to retrieval-augmented generation with quality guardrails — what works, what doesn't, and how to know the difference.
Aug 15, 20248 min
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Have a project in mind? I'm available for freelance AI engineering work — from small prototypes to full production systems.
Or email me at ashkan@ashkankardan.com
