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AI Chatbot Development in South Florida
By Eliran Yihye, Founder
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Cuanto Labs provides AI chatbot development in South Florida and across Florida: a custom chatbot for your website or messaging channels that answers from your own policies, services and catalog, captures leads and hands the conversation to a person when it should. A scoped chatbot starts at $5,000 fixed-price and typically ships in 2–6 weeks.
The difference between a useful chatbot and an annoying one is what it knows and what it is allowed to do. A generic widget guesses. A chatbot built on your material answers the questions your customers actually ask, says so when it does not know and sends the conversation to your team with the context attached, so nobody has to ask the visitor to start over. We are based in Fort Lauderdale (mailing address 1314 E Las Olas Blvd) and work with companies across the state, in person in South Florida and remotely elsewhere.
How much does a custom AI chatbot cost in Florida?
A custom AI chatbot from Cuanto Labs starts at $5,000, fixed-price and written down before work begins. The number depends on how many sources it reads, which systems it connects to and how many channels it covers. Model usage adds a modest monthly running cost, which the proposal estimates.
How long does it take to build an AI chatbot?
A scoped chatbot typically ships in 2–6 weeks. Most of the time goes to organizing your content, agreeing its limits and testing against real questions. You can try a working version before launch, and the proposal fixes both the price and the date before any work starts.
Which Florida businesses benefit most from a chatbot?
Businesses whose customers ask the same questions repeatedly: online stores, property managers, medical and dental practices, accounting firms and home-service companies. If your team answers the same ten questions every day and visitors leave when nobody replies, a chatbot built on your content usually pays back.
What is the difference between a chatbot and an AI agent?
A chatbot is mostly conversation: it answers questions from your content. An agent also acts, such as booking a time, updating a record or sending a message in your tools. Many businesses start with a chatbot and add actions later. We recommend the simplest option that meets your goal.
How do I choose an AI chatbot developer in Florida?
Ask which sources the chatbot answers from, how it behaves when it does not know, how handoff works and who owns the code and conversation data. Ask to test it with your own questions. With us, limits are agreed first, logs are reviewable and everything transfers to you.
AI Chatbot Development pricing in Florida
Fixed price, agreed in writing before work starts. These are the same published starting prices as on our pricing page; the number in your proposal is set after a discovery call.
| Service | Starting price | Typical timeline |
|---|---|---|
| AI Agentsthis page | From $5K | 2–6 weeks |
| Backend & APIs | From $2K | 1–2 weeks |
| Shopify | From $5K | 3–6 weeks |
| Web Apps | From $8K | 4–8 weeks |
typical time from engagement to a running, client-owned OpenClaw agent, see SetClaude
WhatsApp, SMS, email and postcard outreach for new Florida filings, see LLCDrop
a scheduled post that fails is retried by a Temporal orchestrator, see Cuanto Socials
Relevant work you can open
Examples of the kind of software this page is about, not a list of Florida clients. Each is live, and each links to its case study.
SetClaude
Done-for-you OpenClaw agent deployment — hosted or on the client’s own Mac Mini, live in 24 hours, with permission boundaries set properly and the infrastructure client-owned.
LLCDrop
Turns every new Florida business filing into an enriched lead the day it files: live search of 4.8M records, verified contacts, roof-solar scoring, and outreach by WhatsApp, SMS, email or postcard.
Cuanto Socials
Self-hosted social publishing across 28+ channels — Vercel frontend, Railway backend, and a Temporal orchestrator that retries a scheduled post instead of dropping it.
What we build for Florida businesses
Website chatbots
A chatbot embedded on your site that answers from your pages, policies and product data, in your tone, and says plainly when it does not know.
Lead capture and handoff
Questions that signal a buyer lead to a captured name and contact, written to your CRM, with the conversation passed to a person on your terms.
Order and account lookups
For stores and portals, a chatbot that checks order status or appointment details through your platform instead of sending the visitor to a form.
Knowledge base and logs
Your content organized so the chatbot draws only on approved sources, with conversation logs and a review view for your team.
Chatbots for Florida's customer-facing businesses
Visitors to a Florida business website often arrive with a question and no patience: is this open on Sunday, do you serve my area, how do I book, what does it cost. They ask in the evening, from a phone, and sometimes in Spanish. Ecommerce stores field order and return questions. Property managers hear from tenants about payments and repairs. Medical, legal and home-service companies get inquiries that need a reply fast and a clean handoff to staff. A chatbot built for one site, trained on that business's own pages and policies, can answer the routine ones around the clock and pass the rest along. We scope what it may answer, which sources it draws on, what it must refuse and where leads go, then test it against real questions before launch. Conversation logs let you see what visitors ask, which is often useful on its own. We work in person around South Florida from our Las Olas base and run projects elsewhere in the state over video and shared documents.
Areas we serve around Florida
- Miami
- Fort Lauderdale
- Boca Raton
- West Palm Beach
- Orlando
- Tampa
- Jacksonville
Industries we work with
- Ecommerce and retail
- Property management
- Medical and dental practices
- Accounting firms
- Home services
- Hospitality
How a project runs
- 1. Discovery call. Thirty minutes on the problem, the timeline and the budget. No deck, no pitch.
- 2. Fixed-price proposal. Scope and a number, in writing, before any code exists.
- 3. Build in the open. You get a working version in week two and review progress weekly.
- 4. Launch and hand over. Code, repositories and accounts transfer to you at the end. They are yours.
- 5. Support if you want it. A monthly retainer is optional and never a condition of handover.
Serving Florida and nearby
This is the area we serve, not an office to visit; we meet at your location or by video.
Neighborhoods we cover
- Miami
- Fort Lauderdale
- Boca Raton
- West Palm Beach
- Orlando
- Tampa
- Jacksonville
Florida questions we get asked
What can a custom AI chatbot do that a generic widget cannot?
It answers from your own content, connects to your systems and follows your rules. A generic widget guesses from broad training. A custom chatbot can look up an order, book a time, capture a lead into your CRM and hand off with the conversation attached.
Will the chatbot make things up?
We build it to answer from approved sources and to say it does not know when the answer is not there. We test it against real questions before launch, review early conversations with you and tighten the rules. Topics outside its scope go to a person.
Can the chatbot work in English and Spanish?
Yes, a chatbot can be built to answer in both languages from the same content. We test with real questions in each language, and anything it cannot answer confidently is passed to your team. Language coverage is scoped with you during discovery.
Is a chatbot the same as an AI agent?
A chatbot mainly converses. An agent also takes actions in your systems, such as updating a record or sending a message. Many projects combine both. We recommend the simplest one that meets your goal and tell you when a basic version is enough.
Who owns the chatbot and the conversation data?
You do. The code, repositories, hosting accounts and conversation logs transfer to you at handover. We use business-tier model APIs whose terms exclude training on your data, and we agree what is stored before we build.
Serving Florida
Cuanto Labs1314 E Las Olas Blvd, Unit #2570
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Mailing address — not an office
Mon–Thu 9:00–18:00
Fri 9:00–14:00 (EST)
Contact hours, not opening hours
In person across South Florida; remote with video calls and shared documents anywhere else in the state.
We are a remote team with no premises open to visitors. In-person kickoffs and milestone reviews happen at your office; day-to-day the project runs over email, Slack and scheduled calls.
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