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Website AI Assistant

The assistant your visitors actually talk to

Real text chat on Claude. It searches your MLS live, texts matching listings over Twilio SMS, hands off to a Vapi voice call, and captures the lead before it bounces. This is the one you can touch right now.

  • Claude
  • MLS Grid API
  • Twilio SMS
  • Vapi handoff
A real exchange, start to lead
  1. Visitor

    any 3 bedroom under 600k in beacon?

  2. Assistant

    Four active right now in Beacon under $600k. The closest to your ask is a 3 bed / 2 bath on Verplanck, listed at $565,000. Want me to text you all four?

  3. Visitor

    yeah text me

  4. Assistant

    Sent. What number should I use, and would you like Levan to call you this evening about the Verplanck one?

  5. Visitor

    845-555-0134, evening works

Listings pulled live from the MLS. Number, intent, and timeline written to the CRM before the tab closes.

Why it matters

Harvard Business Review found that contacting a lead inside the hour made a firm nearly seven times likelier to get a meaningful conversation with a decision maker than waiting one more hour. This one replies in seconds, qualifies, and books, so no inquiry dies overnight.

What it is

AI Chat Assistant, in plain terms

It is a text chat on your own website, answered by Claude, that behaves like a well-briefed member of your team rather than a decision-tree bot. A visitor can ask for three bedrooms under $600k in Beacon, ask what the taxes look like, ask whether the seller will take a contingency, and get a straight answer to each one in the same conversation.

It is wired to the systems that make the answer real. Listing questions hit the MLS Grid feed, so the inventory it quotes is the inventory that exists this minute. When a visitor wants the listings in their hand, it sends them by SMS through Twilio. When the conversation gets serious enough to need a voice, it hands off to a Vapi call rather than leaving a form behind.

Everything it learns is captured. Name, number, price band, area, timeline, and the full transcript land in your CRM, so the follow-up starts from what the person actually said instead of a name and an email address.

How it works

What happens, in order

  1. It answers in seconds, at any hour

    The assistant is live on every page of your site. Someone landing at 11:40pm gets the same reply speed as someone landing at lunchtime, which is the entire point: the inquiry never sits in an inbox waiting for morning.

  2. It searches the real MLS, not a cached list

    Questions about inventory are answered against the MLS Grid API, filtered to what is genuinely active. It quotes prices, beds, baths, and addresses that hold up, because it read them a second ago.

  3. It moves the conversation to a channel that converts

    Matching listings go out by Twilio SMS, which people open. If the visitor wants to talk, a Vapi voice agent picks the conversation up on the phone with everything already known about them, so nobody has to start over.

  4. It qualifies, books, and writes it all down

    Budget, area, timeline, and motivation get asked naturally inside the conversation. The lead and the transcript are written to your CRM, and the appointment is booked while the visitor is still interested.

Use cases

Where it earns its keep

  • The after-hours buyer

    The searching that happens after your office closes does not wait for it to open. The assistant answers at 11pm, sends four matching listings by text, and books a Saturday showing. In the morning you have a booked appointment instead of a contact form.

  • The visitor who was about to bounce

    Someone browses three listings and starts to leave. The assistant asks one useful question, gets a price band and an area, and turns an anonymous session into a named lead with a phone number.

  • The listing inquiry you would have missed

    A buyer asks about a specific address while you are at a closing. The assistant answers on the facts, captures the number, and hands you a person to call back rather than a missed call notification.

  • The seller quietly checking their value

    A homeowner asking what their street is selling for is a seller lead in disguise. The assistant recognises it, offers a valuation, and routes them to a listing conversation instead of a listings page.

Limits

What it does not do

Every other section on this page is selling you something. This is the one that says where it stops. If a vendor cannot tell you this about their own product, you have learned something anyway.

  • It does not close. It does not read a room, it does not know when a seller is lying about their timeline, and it has no instinct for what is really going on in a divorce sale. Those are the reasons you have a job.
  • It does not answer what it cannot verify. Asked whether a seller will take a contingency, the honest answer is that nobody knows until it is asked, so it says so and books you the call.
  • It does not invent a listing, a price, or a legal opinion. Anything outside what it can check against the MLS or your own knowledge base becomes a booked call rather than a confident wrong answer.
  • It does not pretend to be a person. It introduces itself as an assistant, and in practice nobody minds. What people mind is waiting.

See it live

Easier to understand when you can touch it

Everything on this page is a node on the RealtyLT AI page: a galaxy that reshapes into a brain, with every service hanging off the core. Open the AI Chat Assistant node to read the same thing in its own habitat, and talk to the chat assistant while you are there, because that one is genuinely live.

AI Chat Assistantone node on the hub

Questions

Asked and answered

The questions people actually ask about AI Chat Assistant, answered the way we would answer them on the phone. If yours is not here, ask us and we will add it.

Can an AI chatbot actually search the MLS?

Yes. This one queries the MLS Grid API live during the conversation, so it answers with the listings that are active at that moment rather than a stale export. It can filter by price, beds, baths, and area exactly as you would in the search bar, and it can text the results to the visitor over SMS.

How fast does an AI assistant reply to a website lead?

In seconds, at any hour. The research worth quoting here is Harvard Business Review's 2011 study of 1.25 million sales leads at 29 consumer and 13 business companies: firms that tried to make contact within an hour were nearly seven times likelier to qualify the lead, which the researchers defined as a real conversation with somebody who could decide, than firms that waited one more hour. That is cross-industry work rather than a real estate study, so what carries over is the shape rather than the multiple. What the assistant changes is that the inquiry gets answered while the person is still on the page, instead of whenever somebody next opens the inbox.

Will visitors know they are talking to an AI?

Yes, and we recommend it. The assistant introduces itself as an assistant. What people care about is whether the answer is correct and immediate, and it is. When a question genuinely needs the agent, it says so and books the call rather than pretending.

What happens when the AI does not know the answer?

It says it does not know, then gets a human involved. It will not invent a listing, a price, or a legal opinion. Anything outside what it can verify against the MLS or your own knowledge base becomes a booked call with you, which is a better outcome than a confident wrong answer.

Does an AI chat assistant replace an ISA?

It replaces the part of an ISA's job that is speed and repetition: answering instantly, qualifying on budget and timeline, and booking the appointment. It does not replace the judgment of an experienced agent on the call that follows. Most teams use it as the first responder and keep people for the conversations that matter.

Can I add an AI chat assistant to my existing website?

Yes. It is a widget that drops into any site, including kvCORE, WordPress, Squarespace, and a custom build. It does not require rebuilding your website, and it connects to whatever CRM you already run.

What does it do with the leads it captures?

It writes them to your CRM with the full transcript, the phone number, the price band, the area, and the timeline the person gave. The follow-up starts from what they actually said, which is why the callback converts better than a callback off a blank contact form.

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Want AI Chat Assistant running in your business?

Tell us what you do today and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right place to start. If it is not, we will say which one is.

Levan Tsiklauri

Builds these. Answers the phone himself.

(917) 905-7923