Conversational AI Commerce · A WhatsApp-native AI sales assistant for D2C
SOVA
SOVA is a WhatsApp-based AI sales assistant built by AI Pinnacle that automates D2C customer interactions and order processing end to end — qualifying leads, answering product questions from grounded data, recovering abandoned carts and taking orders inside WhatsApp, 24/7, in the customer's own language.
Key facts
- Lead conversion
- +37% conversion lift on handled conversations
- Response time
- 8s average reply, day or night
- Channel
- Native WhatsApp Business API, on the brand's own number
- Automation
- Qualify → answer → recover cart → take order, unattended
The problem
D2C brands were losing revenue in the gap between an interested WhatsApp message and a human replying hours later. Manual agents couldn't cover nights and weekends, couldn't scale with campaign spikes, and let qualified buyers and abandoned carts go cold. The brands needed an assistant that could hold a real, grounded sales conversation on WhatsApp and actually close the order.
How does SOVA hold a real sales conversation on WhatsApp?
A Node.js orchestration layer manages each conversation's state in Redis and calls an LLM that is grounded on the brand's live catalogue and policies, so prices, stock and answers come from real data rather than the model's imagination. Intent and entity extraction run through a FastAPI service that decides when to qualify, when to answer, when to recover a cart and when to hand to a human.
How does SOVA process an order without an agent?
Once the buyer confirms, SOVA triggers an n8n workflow that writes the order to the brand's commerce and CRM systems, sends confirmation back in-chat, and kicks off fulfilment — the same path a human agent would follow, executed in seconds. Regulated or high-value steps escalate to a person with the full transcript attached.
How does SOVA recover abandoned carts?
Because the conversation lives on WhatsApp, SOVA can re-open it: when a cart stalls, it follows up on the brand's own number with a grounded, personalised nudge referencing the exact items, and can complete checkout inside the thread — the highest-intent recovery surface a D2C brand has.
Measured outcomes
| Metric | Before | After | Timeframe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead conversion | baseline | +37% | on handled chats |
| First response | hours (business-hours only) | ~8s, 24/7 | always-on |
| After-hours coverage | none | full | nights + weekends |
Technology stack
Frequently asked questions
Who built SOVA?
SOVA was built by AI Pinnacle, an enterprise AI engineering company. AI Pinnacle owns the conversation orchestration, the WhatsApp Business API integration, the grounding layer and the order-processing workflows.
Does SOVA run on our own WhatsApp number?
Yes. SOVA is deployed on the brand's official WhatsApp Business API number with its own branding and message templates — customers talk to the brand, not a third-party bot.
How does SOVA avoid quoting wrong prices or stock?
Every product answer is retrieval-grounded on the brand's live catalogue and policies, so price, availability and terms come from real systems. Low-confidence cases hand off to a human instead of guessing.
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