Turn the questions you cannot answer into pipeline

A visitor who asks a question your site cannot answer is the warmest lead you will get all week. Matter Chat catches that moment instead of letting it close the tab.

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A small-business owner standing at his worktable, reading a message on his phone with a pleased expression.
Do you do wholesale for offices?
I don't have wholesale pricing in my knowledge base — I don't want to guess at it. Shall I get someone from the team to reply?

Where should they reach you?

Captured at intent
The moment a visitor hits the edge of what your site answers.
With the question
You get their exact wording, not a blank 'requested a demo'.
Delivered, not parked
Emailed and posted to a webhook as it happens.
One field
An email address. Every extra field costs you completions.
A shop owner standing behind her counter during a quiet moment, reading a tablet with a thoughtful, unconvinced expression.

Your best leads leave without saying anything

Someone reads three pages, forms a specific question, cannot find the answer, and leaves. Nothing in your analytics records that as an event, so the loss is invisible. It is also the highest-intent moment on your entire site.

  • Traffic is healthy but the contact form barely moves
  • Sales has no idea what a lead wanted before the call
  • Your contact form asks for a name and a message and nothing else useful
  • The questions that would qualify a buyer are never recorded anywhere

Where the leads actually come from

Not a popup on a timer. The assistant answers everything it can for free, and asks for a way to reply only when it has genuinely run out of answer — which is the moment a visitor has just told you exactly what they want.

Triggered by a refusal

The prompt appears when the assistant cannot help, not on a countdown or an exit-intent guess.

The question comes attached

Sales opens with what the visitor asked, in their words, instead of starting discovery from zero.

Email delivery

Every capture lands in an inbox the moment it happens, so somebody sees it while it is still warm.

Webhook to anywhere

Posted as JSON to any endpoint — your CRM directly, or an automation tool that maps it onto your schema.

Qualification for free

A question about SSO and data residency tells you more about the buyer than any dropdown would.

Every refusal recorded

Even visitors who leave no email tell you what your site failed to answer.

Capture at the moment of intent, not at the end of a form

The bot offers a human at exactly the point a visitor hits the edge of what your content covers. That is a far better moment to ask for an email than a footer form, because the visitor has just demonstrated what they want.

Ask when it matters
The prompt appears at the natural end of an unanswered question, not on a timer or an exit popup.
The question comes with the lead
Their exact phrasing travels with the capture, so the first call starts from what they asked.
Full transcript attached
Sales can read what the visitor already tried before the first call.
No forced gate
Answers stay free. Only the handover asks for a way to reply.
A leads summary showing the total captured all-time, how many arrived in the last seven days, and how many left a written note.
Captures, counted. The ones that left a note are the ones worth calling first.

Routed where your team already works

A lead that sits in a dashboard nobody opens is not a lead. Matter Chat pushes captures into the systems you already run your pipeline in.

Delivered, not parked
Every capture is posted to a webhook and emailed the moment it happens, so it reaches your CRM or your inbox without anyone checking a dashboard.
Slack notifications
On Growth and above, new captures arrive in the channel your team watches, with the question in the message.
Exportable inbox
Everything is also a tidy list you can filter and export.
Lead delivery settings with an email address field and a webhook endpoint field, each with a button to send a test lead.
Email so a person looks, webhook so the record lands. Most teams want both, for different reasons.

Qualification you did not have to ask for

Because the lead arrives attached to a real question, you can tell an evaluator from a browser without a single qualifying field. Someone asking about SSO and data residency is not the same visitor as someone asking your opening hours, and now you can see which is which.

A table of captured leads showing the message each visitor left — asking about wholesale pricing, corporate subscriptions, sample packs and shipping — alongside the page they were reading and the date.
The message column is the qualification. Nobody filled in a form to produce it.
The counterintuitive part

The refusal is the lead

A bot that answers everything captures nothing, because it never reaches the edge of what you have published. The moment it says “I don't have that” is the moment a visitor has told you exactly what they want and cannot get — which is the only thing that makes a contact detail worth asking for.

  • It answers everything it can, for free
  • It asks only after it has genuinely run out
  • One field, because you already have the question
  • Refusals with no email still count as content gaps
Someone reading their laptop at a kitchen table in early morning light.A leads summary showing the total captured, how many arrived this week, and how many left a written note.

Turning an unanswered question into pipeline

Four settings, none of which need a developer. The defaults are already sensible; these are the decisions worth making deliberately.

  1. 1

    Decide when it offers a human

    A refusal is the natural trigger — the assistant has reached the edge of its knowledge and the visitor still needs something.

  2. 2

    Ask for as little as possible

    One field. You already have the valuable part, which is the question. Each extra field is one more reason to abandon.

  3. 3

    Point it somewhere real

    Set both the email address and the webhook. Email gets a person to look; the webhook puts the record where your pipeline lives.

  4. 4

    Vary it by availability

    Offer live handover during working hours and capture contact details outside them, so the offer is always one you can keep.

The delivery channels panel with an email address field and a webhook endpoint field, each with a Send test lead button.
Both channels have a test button. Use it before you depend on either.

Questions people ask before they start

Short answers. If yours is not here, the assistant on this page will try it — and tell you honestly if it cannot.

Does asking for an email hurt the support experience?

It should not, and it does not have to. The bot answers everything it can for free and only asks for a way to reply when it has genuinely reached the end of what it knows. Gating answers behind a form is the failure mode; offering to follow up is not.

Can captured leads reach our CRM?

Yes, by webhook. Each capture is posted as JSON to an endpoint you choose, which covers any CRM that accepts an incoming webhook directly, and the rest through an automation tool like Zapier or Make. Leads are also emailed as they arrive and exportable as CSV. There is no one-click HubSpot or Salesforce app today — we would rather say so than have you discover it after signing up.

Can I see which pages produce the most leads?

Yes. Captures are recorded with the conversation, so you can see the question behind each one and which part of your content the visitor was reading when they hit the gap.

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