Before you go live
Four checks that keep the bot accurate and your spend bounded.
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Set the domain allow-list. Add every domain the widget runs on — subdomains count separately, so acme.com and www.acme.com are two entries. An empty list means any site can use your bot key.
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Set the daily reply cap. How many answers the bot may give in a day. When it is reached the widget pauses politely rather than continuing to spend. Set it above a normal day and below what you would be unhappy to pay on the worst one.
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Review what was actually crawled. Open the source list. You are looking for important pages that are missing, and noise that should not be there — tag archives, pagination, or an old staging domain.
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Ask it ten hard questions. Use the dashboard test chat, and check the citation on each answer rather than only the answer. A correct answer citing an unrelated page means retrieval got lucky and the next question will not.