The Zedinga blog

Product updates, technical deep dives, and honest founder notes on building an AI automation platform for SMBs.

Engineering

RAG on Supabase pgvector: no vector database required

How Zedinga's production RAG pipeline runs on Supabase pgvector with exact KNN — no Pinecone, no ANN index, no separate ETL. Real numbers, real trade-offs, and where this stops scaling.

July 19, 20265 min readRead
Industries

AI chatbot for auto repair shops: what actually works (from someone in the trade)

We run a diesel injector service with three branches — and built our own AI assistant for it. What repair-shop bots must do differently: no price promises, branch routing, and quote capture.

July 18, 20263 min readRead
Comparisons

Looking for a Chatbase alternative? An honest comparison from a small vendor

Chatbase is a solid product — this isn't a hit piece. Where Zedinga differs: e-commerce depth, WhatsApp, human handoff, and flat pricing. Decide with your own checklist.

July 18, 20263 min readRead
Product

In-chat order tracking: solving "where is my order?" without a support agent

WISMO tickets are 30-40% of e-commerce support volume. How to answer them in chat, safely — with identity verification and zero AI access to personal data.

July 18, 20262 min readRead
How-to

How to add an AI chatbot to your Shopify store (that actually knows your products)

Most Shopify chatbots answer from a static FAQ. Here's how to connect one that reads your live catalog, quotes real prices, and tracks orders inside the chat — set up in one afternoon.

July 18, 20263 min readRead
Comparisons

Looking for a Tidio alternative? Read this before you switch

Tidio is one of the most popular live-chat tools for a reason. Where Zedinga takes a different path: AI-first support, e-commerce depth, and flat pricing — with a test you can run today.

July 18, 20263 min readRead
How-to

WhatsApp AI chatbot for small business: filter the noise, keep the customers

Your customers are already on WhatsApp — the question is who answers first. How an AI bot on the WhatsApp Business API handles the repetitive 80% and hands real customers to you.

July 18, 20262 min readRead
Announcements

Welcome to Zedinga AI: Why we built an AI automation platform for SMBs

We built Zedinga AI for the small and medium businesses that get ignored by enterprise SaaS — straight talk on what we ship, why, and what's next.

May 9, 20263 min readRead