From your first doc to a live answer — before your coffee goes cold.
Three steps separate you from a working bot: pull data, choose a style, go live. Median across all beta onboardings: 3 minutes 42 seconds. Measured, not promised.
3:42 — six split times, one stopwatch.
Instead of a four-step grid, we show you where every second goes. The median with well-prepared material is below that — the median without preparation is above it. Your first run lands somewhere in between.
- 0:00Start
Click “New bot”
You land straight in the builder — no wizard with 12 upfront questions, no API keys, no email-validation ping-pong.
- 0:35Source
Connect Notion or drop a PDF
Workspace via OAuth in 25 seconds, or drag and drop a PDF / Markdown / ZIP — the indexer keeps running in the background right away.
- 1:20Tone
Define the style with the builder bot
zep asks you four short questions about audience, language, formality and taboo topics. You type, the bot translates it into the matching system prompt.
- 2:30Look
Brand color + welcome message in the live preview
Color picker, logo upload, four suggested questions — and on the right you see in real time how your bot page looks. No page builder.
- 3:30Live
Click “Publish”
Bot subdomain, HTTPS certificate, vector search, login layer — all automatic. You get the URL and can share it right away.
- 3:42Goal
First real answer
A visitor types a question. The bot draws from your knowledge base, answers with a source citation — and you have your first iteration.
Setup friction kills most bot projects.
Three classic pitfalls — that Zeptix deliberately leaves out:
- Sprint required. Classic tools need account setup, API connections, prompt engineering, embeddings, hosting. Time to the first answer: days.
- Code barrier. Open-source bots demand Python, vector stores, LLM contracts — solo founders and coaches are out immediately.
- Data format chaos. Notion, PDF, website, Excel — every format different. Splitting, re-indexing, embedding costs — friction everywhere.
What every single Zeptix second saves.
Each point below replaces a classic setup step — not with a fancier UI, but by eliminating it entirely. You click, we handle it.
Notion connect without tokens
OAuth instead of an API key. You pick databases, we keep everything in sync — re-indexing runs without you having to trigger anything.
Websites via URL
One input line, one domain. We crawl the sitemap, parse the content, ignore footer / cookie banner / navigation and respect robots.txt.
Marketplace quickstart
No data of your own? Activate a pack (travel, coaching, coding, fitness) — the bot can answer meaningfully right away, and you add your own material later.
Builder bot instead of an empty field
Instead of prompt engineering, zep walks you through it: four structured questions, done. Your answers land directly in the setup, without YAML.
Live preview, every change
Move a slider, change a color, swap the logo — the bot page renders next to you in real time, no reload, no save button.
Custom domain optional
chat.your-company.com via CNAME. We fetch the HTTPS certificate ourselves; you need neither a Cloudflare account nor your own web server.
FAQ about the quick start.
Are the 3:42 min really accurate?
That's the median across the beta onboardings: measured from the “Create bot” click to the first answer. Pro users are through in 90 seconds, beginners take up to 8 minutes — but rarely more.
What if my data isn't in Notion or a PDF?
You can upload Markdown, TXT, CSV, JSON and ZIP archives. We read websites via URL. We support Discord server exports via JSON file. On the Plus plan, Google Docs and Confluence are added.
How quickly is the bot up to date again after a change?
Style changes are live instantly (hot reload of the bot page). New documents are re-indexed in 5–60 seconds depending on size — for large sources this continues in the background, and the bot answers from the old state in the meantime.
Do I need perfectly structured data beforehand?
No. zep also processes loose notes, multi-page PDFs and unsorted Markdown files. But whatever you want as an answer later should be somewhere in the data — bots don't make up anything new.
What if I need several bots at the same time?
On the Free plan: one bot. From Plus: three bots, each with its own knowledge, style and URL. You can share knowledge sources between bots or keep them strictly separate — no cross-indexing per tenant.
I have no data at all — can I still start?
Yes. Activate a marketplace pack with ready-made answers on travel, fitness, coaching or coding. In 30 seconds you have a bot that answers meaningfully — and you can load your own data later.
Stopwatch ready? Then go.
On the Free plan it costs you nothing. If you're not live in under 5 minutes — write to us, we'll go through it together with you.
