Latest insights, research, and news from LastBot
A comic about a five-month-old pair of headphones, a failing battery, and how connected AI customer service turned a warranty complaint into trust by checking the backend, CRM and ERP before answering.
Ten SaaS homepages, one identical purple bubble in the corner. The chat widget is the first employee every visitor meets, yet almost nobody designs it. Here is why sameness is a choice, and what to change before you ship the next widget.
Building an integration between an AI customer service platform and a customer's backend used to require an engineer, a project plan, and a budget. It does not anymore. Here is exactly how I did it, as a non-technical CEO, using two API descriptions, an LLM, and the LastBot interface.
Workflow-based bots ask customers to follow the system. Intent-based bots let the system follow the customer's need. Here is what changes, what workflows are still good for, and why intent-first design is easier to maintain.
DNA and Jokerit have launched a partnership built around growth, community and digitalization. Part of the package is DNA Business Apuri, DNA's AI-powered customer service solution powered by LastBot, bringing inbound AI customer service to one of Finland's best known sports brands.
LastBot ONE is a full AI customer service and contact center platform for small and mid-sized companies. One AI handles web chat, email and voice calls under a single conversation quota, and you go from a URL to live in about five minutes, trained on your own content.
Vitec Hotellinx Oy and LastBot Europe Oy have entered a strategic partnership that integrates the LastBot ONE AI contact center directly into the Hotellinx Cloud PMS, automating hotel customer service on the phone, by email and in web chat.
Chatbots earned a bad reputation through years of slow evolution. Modern agentic AI is genuinely useful, but old habits die hard. That is why we built an embedded chat experience that lives inside the page, not behind a floating bubble.
European SMBs are being squeezed by US-built AI support platforms. We compare Intercom, Zendesk, and LastBot ONE on total cost, GDPR readiness, setup speed, and channel coverage.
Nobody should want a chatbot anymore. Businesses don't need conversationalists — they need actual doers. Here's why the old model is dead and what replaces it.
We monitored 20+ subreddits, analyzed 16 threads, and tracked 18 distinct feature requests from SMBs. Here is what the community told us they need, and how LastBot ONE delivers.
A new industry report from the CPaaS Acceleration Alliance confirms what we've been building toward. LastBot is cited as a real-world example of where the future of AI customer service is heading.
Businesses can now automate customer interactions across four channels, website chat, email, WhatsApp, and voice, with seamless escalation to human agents. LastBot will be presenting at MWC 2026 in Barcelona.
LastBot's WhatsApp integration is now GA for all customers. With WhatsApp, email, and web chat, LastBot makes it easier than ever to connect with your customers wherever they are.
European digital sovereignty in ICT will not be decided in conferences or strategy papers. It will be decided in the everyday, messy reality of how we actually build and run our digital services.
LastBot's granted patent covers a closed-loop AI system that continuously optimizes business goals like sales or customer engagement by generating, testing, and learning from messages and actions across customer journeys.
Our CPO Sami Korhonen has a confession: he's fundamentally lazy. But his obsession with automating everything is actually LastBot's competitive advantage. Here's why traditional onboarding is painful, and how we do it differently.
When people hear 'chatbot,' they think of scripted systems that never improve. LastBot ONE works differently: our AI actively learns from every customer conversation, becoming more accurate and context-aware over time.
CEO Janne Timonen and Chairman Tero Heinonen represented LastBot at Slush 25 in Helsinki, meeting with dozens of investors and discussing the future of AI-powered customer service. The event reinforced our confidence that AI is transforming business operations worldwide.
Leading Ukrainian distributor UTTC joins forces with LastBot to expand contact center solutions portfolio. The partnership brings LastBot ONE's intelligent automation platform to enterprises across Ukraine and the Commonwealth of Independent States region.
LastBot is excited to welcome Janne Timonen as the new CEO. Janne's focus will be on strengthening LastBot's partner network to expand our reach and bring our AI solutions to new markets.
DNA Oyj, one of Finland's leading telecommunications companies, has entered a strategic partnership with LastBot. Starting this month, DNA will offer the advanced LastBot ONE platform rebranded as DNA Business Apuri to its corporate clients throughout Finland.
LastBot will be present at the Team Finland booth in Hall 5, Stand 5J45, from March 3–6 in Barcelona.
Imagine communication that automatically adjusts itself after every single interaction. That's the goal of this research package, where reinforcement learning takes personalization and recommendations to the next level.
AI is becoming increasingly essential, and this research package focuses on shaping large and small language models to be more reliable, using human feedback and clever data-condensing techniques.
Telenor has announced a strategic investment in LastBot as part of its AI-First program, focusing on DNA's internal processes and AI-driven solutions for enterprise customers.
LastBot has received over €250,000 from Business Finland to boost AI and innovation research, enabling development of language models and AI-powered customer communication.
