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You can now chat with your Locusive assistant directly from the Locusive web app.

We're excited to roll out a new Zoho Desk integration to make it easy for you to add your support articles and Help Center into your Locusive knowledge base.

Shanif chats with Kevin Dewalt about building on top of LLMs.

This article provides an in-depth comparison of which LLMs are best for powering autonomous agents from the perspectives of accuracy, speed, and cost.

Shanif chats with Tony Johnson of the Customer Service Academy podcast about how AI can help customer success teams improve efficiency.

Locusive's newest feature, response audits, allows you to double check our AI's work for yourself.

Discover three crucial best practices for using AI to query your database, including semantic search, reference guides, and schema injection. Learn how Locusive simplifies the implementation of these best practices, empowering your team to make data-driven decisions faster and more efficiently.

This guide explores the process of using AI to query databases, including the challenges involved and best practices for implementation. Learn how off-the-shelf solutions like Locusive can simplify the process and empower non-technical users to access data insights.

Explore Locusive's new feature, Training Instructions, which enhances your ability to tailor conversational AI responses by providing contextual company information and specific scenario guidelines.

Quick update from us — we've rolled out a new feature that lets you see the latest status updates from our assistant as it processes your requests. Our hope is that this helps you get a sense for what it's doing while you're waiting.

Locusive is closing new signups for our beta product, but we're working on an even more powerful co-pilot for customer success teams that will make it easier for CSMs to manage their customer accounts while also offloading their tedious admin work to AI.

We recently rolled out a new hybrid search capability combining semantic search with keyword search to improve our AI platform's ability to understand queries in context. Early results are promising for our Slackbot's search command.

We've rolled out updates to reduce costs and improve latency for when you send messages to our chatbot.

Locusive's new database integration allows users to get answers from their existing databases without having to know how to code, and the new Reference Guide feature allows users to add additional contextual information that can be used to produce more accurate answers for their queries.

A 10-step process for creating optimized SEO content in just a few hours.

Shanif Dhanani, founder of Locusive, talks about how Generative AI will change the SaaS experience for users and software companies in the coming years.

Shanif Dhanani, founder of Locusive, provides an introduction to LLM-enabled autonomous agents for business, going over the intricacies and solutions involved in creating a self-directing AI assistant, powered by LLMs.

Have you ever envisioned a world where artificial intelligence transforms the way we connect with customers? Shanif Dhanani, the founder of Locusive, joins John to offer a glimpse into the future.

We're excited to roll out the release of our new "Chatbot" page on our app. On this page you can get a better indication of what team your chatbot is connected to, the number of integrations in use, and you can toggle the use of a search engine and ChatGPT's built-in knowledge when answering your queries.

We've updated our chatbot and API so that our system will now automatically read Google Docs, .docx, and .txt files in addition to PDF files in your Google Drive folder.

In just a few minutes, you can have a powerful internal chatbot for your employees that's helping boost productivity and communication. With Locusive's internal chatbot for employees, you'll have a smart assistant that connects into your business data and apps, answers your questions, helps you find the documents you need, and keeps your employees focusing on the bigger picture items, all in just a few minutes.

Today, we're happy to announce a new addition to our growing list of integrations: Google Docs. With this new integration, you can add any Google Doc from your account into your knowledge base for Locusive, including them in searches and using them as sources of information for your questions.

Learn how to build a sophisticated custom AI chatbot tailored to your business by leveraging proprietary data and integrating large language models like ChatGPT for natural conversations. This comprehensive guide covers key steps from identifying goals to optimizing data pipelines, ensuring security, crafting contextual interactions, and monitoring analytics.

Locusive's API helps companies organize their documents and data in one searchable place. Easily add your files, webpages, and databases. Then find any information quickly with natural search. No more hunting across messy folders. Discover the data you need in seconds.

Notion is now a supported integration for Locusive's users. By adding your Notion pages and databases to your Locusive account, you can make all of your content in Notion available for inclusion in your search queries and as trusted sources of information for your knowledge base.

Integrating a powerful chatbot with Google Drive streamlines workflows through natural language search, automation, and intelligent collaboration. Learn how Locusive’s conversational AI can maximize productivity.

Shanif and Gen go over using company data with ChatGPT.

Have you been wondering how to build a custom chatbot for your own business? Do you wish you could ask ChatGPT about what’s in your document repository? Do you wonder about the dangers of giving your data to large language models? In this webinar, you’ll learn everything you need to know about using Generative AI with your own data. We’ll be focusing on real-world, practical use cases — at the end of the talk, you’ll have a great understanding of what opportunities you have to use LLMs with your data, how to make sure they don’t hallucinate answers by giving them the right context, what your options are when it comes to data privacy, and what you’ll need to focus on if you want to build your own chat-enabled apps. Who this webinar is for: If you’re a business executive, software developer, product manager, marketer, or just generally interested in how LLMs work, this webinar is for you.

Searching through your browsing history to find answers is frustratingly inefficient. This article explores how Locusive's web archiving and natural language search capabilities can help you instantly retrieve information from your saved websites.

Gen Furukawa and Shanif Dhanani go over how to use AI to create compelling, SEO-optimized long-form content.

Discover how custom AI chatbots are transforming business communication and workflows by seamlessly connecting siloed data, improving efficiency, and enhancing team collaboration. This guide explores the growing demand for tailored conversational AI solutions that understand company-specific information and provide customized support.

Learn how to integrate ChatGPT with your business's private data for personalized insights. This comprehensive guide covers strategies to connect ChatGPT to your knowledge base.

In the ever-changing world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it can be tough to keep up with the latest tech and figure out how to use it for your business. In this episode of the Rising Tide Startups podcast, hosted by Kevin Prewett, we chat with the brilliant Shanif Dhanani, founder of Locusive, a company that bridges the gap between data and AI. Shanif shares his journey and gives valuable insights for aspiring entrepreneurs.

This article explores the common frustrations of siloed data in the workplace and how a conversational AI chatbot can provide a solution by understanding natural language questions and instantly delivering answers compiled from across a company's systems. It outlines key benefits of this approach and provides a call-to-action for readers to sign up for a free trial of Locusive, an enterprise-ready conversational AI platform that connects to data sources and returns direct answers quickly.

In this video tutorial, Shanif Dhanani, the founder of goes over the need for vector databases for finding relevant answers from your data. He discusses why the limited context windows of LLMs require us to use vector databases for building apps that can search over our data, how to insert data into a vector database, and how to query a vector database.

Find the best chatbot APIs that you can use to develop your own chatbot applications, including Locusive's chatbot API, which lets you plug in, query, and chat with your data automatically.

Get a rundown of the best AI chatbots for getting answers from your internal company data.

Join Joey and Shanif as they discuss all things AI. Shanif explains that AI is a mathematical system that predicts words based on training data, making it good at tasks but not at taking over jobs–or the world.

In this article, we dive deep into the world of custom chatbots for businesses, exploring what they're good for, how their use differs when used internally vs. externally, and how you can implement them for your own business.

This article explores the world of autonomous agents, explaining how LLMs make them possible, what they're capable of, and what we might expect from them in the future.

Employees spend a lot of time searching for data, coordinating amongst each other, and looking for answers to their questions in their internal documentation. The right chatbot can help them save time by handling the hard work of looking up the information that they need from their trusted data sources.

In this episode of Generative Intelligence #3, we go over vector databases and the role that they play when creating chat-enabled applications.

Shanif joins a panel of AI and data experts to discuss the future of AI.

In this episode of the SaaS Fuel™ podcast, Jeff Main explores the realm of data treasure hunting alongside Shanif Dhanani, the visionary founder and CEO of Locusive. We dive deep into the dynamic world of B2B SaaS, where data security and privacy reign supreme. Learn why AI should be your trusty sidekick, not a replacement, in making high-stakes decisions. It's all about that perfect human-AI synergy!

This guide describes the role that vector databases play in creating chat-enabled applications, why they're crucial but also difficult to deal with, and how you can use existing APIs to get the same functionality but with added features for less cost and resources.

A review of general and domain-specific LLMs and a guide on how to use them together to create your chatbot applications.

This guide explains how integrating AI-powered chatbots into sales workflows helps sales teams boost productivity and close more deals by providing instant access to answers during sales calls.

In our inaugural newsletter, we go over how LLMs can improve internal and external search for companies.

A review of the best tools and chatbots for AI coding.

In this comparison guide, learn how ChatGPT and Claude 2 large language models compare to each other to help you decide which one to use for your chatbot needs.

In this comparison guide, learn how ChatGPT GPT-3 and GPT-3 models compare to each other to help you decide which one to use for your chatbot needs.

In this guide, you'll learn about the many benefits of connecting your Google Sheets data to a chatbot, including instant access to answers, the ability to work in your existing tools, and centralized access to your data. You'll also learn how to set up your Google Sheets data with a chatbot quickly and easily.

Discover how to boost productivity with Locusive's Gen AI tools, integrated seamlessly into Slack. Learn to quickly connect your data sources, enabling rapid, reliable answers to your team's queries. Start free today.

Shanif chats with Moshe Amsel of the Profit With Law podcast about how legal professionals can incorporate new generative AI technologies like ChatGPT into their workflows.

Dive into the role of large language models in creating autonomous software agents and understand the pros and cons of ChatGPT's 'function calling' feature. Discover an alternative approach for robust business applications using a 'tool selection' framework.

Watch this recording to learn about how AI is expected to impact sales and marketing in the future, how people are using it today, and what concrete tactics you can implement to use A.I. for your own sales approach.

Shanif chats with Paris to discuss how businesses can harness the power of large language models to drive growth and innovation, boost sales conversion rates, and revolutionize SaaS workflows.

In this webinar, Shanif, the founder of Locusive, goes over how ChatGPT and other generative AI tools can be used to optimize SaaS workflows. He primarily covers the employee use case, focusing on how software engineers, customer success/support managers, and sales & marketing professionals can use ChatGPT to make their jobs more efficient.

Dive into the world of autonomous software agents powered by ChatGPT. Understand how they handle complex tasks, the challenges faced in their development, and the best practices in creating them. Explore the potential of these agents across various sectors and how Locusive aids in their creation and deployment.

This article explores the concept and creation of internal search engines for businesses to efficiently access data across various platforms. It delves into data integration, security measures, and user interface design, underscoring the potential productivity gains. It also mentions Locusive's consolidated chatbot solution for integrating multiple data sources.

In this workshop, Shanif Dhanani, the founder of Locusive, hosts a workshop about Generative A.I.

This article addresses businesses' concerns regarding the use of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT for improving productivity, focusing on data security and privacy. It clarifies misconceptions about how these models operate and interact with proprietary data. The piece outlines the current use of data by LLMs, detailing how data is used for answering specific business-related questions, and potential security risks involved.

This article delves into the concept of "autonomous agents" and introduces a new open-source tool called "AutoGPT." The author begins by defining "agents" as software applications that can carry out actions or a series of actions to accomplish a larger goal. The advent of large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's GPT-4, has enabled the creation of more sophisticated agents that can handle complex tasks.

A Locusive-hosted webinar on building applications with large language models like ChatGPT as embedded components.

This article explores the use of ChatGPT in professional environments, its limitations, and how "contextual information retrieval" utilizing vector databases can enhance its capability. It discusses the challenges and potential future of information retrieval in the realm of artificial intelligence.

This article delves into the use of ChatGPT for businesses, addressing misconceptions about its integration with proprietary data and how it's not as straightforward as 'feeding' it documents. It further discusses strategies like fine-tuning ChatGPT, contextual information retrieval, few-shot learning, or training your own language model, each with its challenges, for the effective utilization of ChatGPT in your business.

This article discusses the strengths and shortcomings of ChatGPT, a large language model by OpenAI, emphasizing the need for using trusted sources to avoid 'hallucinations' or factually incorrect statements. It offers a detailed explanation of concepts like hallucinations, trusted sources, contextual data, and context window. The article also delves into the use of vector databases for effective query management, challenges of time, cost, and effort in setting up such a system, and the potential future improvements in LLMs.

Shanif joins Andrew and Anthony of the DevReady podcast to talk about how ChatGPT and LLMs can help businesses improve productivity

The article discusses the potential of OpenAI's ChatGPT to revolutionize work through its 'reasoning' abilities, likening it to past game-changers like the internet and iPhone. It also highlights the challenges of implementing such technology, including infrastructure needs, data privacy, and job security concerns.

Shanif chats with Matt Wolach on Scale Your SaaS to discuss how businesses can best use LLMs to chat with their data.

In this episode of Building Great Sales Teams, we are joined by Shanif Dhanani an expert on ChatGPT and many other AI tools. Join us as we tackle some on the best practices and uses for AI as well as the importance of segmenting and direct targeting of your potential clients. Enjoy!

Locusive's founder, Shanif Dhanani, joins Ande Lyons to chat about how ChatGPT can help founders grow their business.

Locusive's founder, Shanif Dhanani, joins John Golden for a podcast on how ChatGPT can help drive new progress for salespeople and business execs.