Ernest answers your customers.
Then tells you what’s costing you sales.

He resolves order status, cancellations and returns on his own. And every week he hands you the questions your store couldn’t answer — in your customers’ own words. Free to start, no credit card.

Ernest

Website chat · yourstore.com

Hey, I ordered the wrong size — can I cancel order #4829?
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Where's my order?Can I return this?Do you ship to Canada?Cancel order #4829What's your refund policy?Is this in stock in medium?¿Cuándo llega mi pedido?Change my shipping addressDo you do exchanges?Track my packageHow long is delivery?Comment retourner un article ?Is this covered by warranty?Wo ist meine Bestellung?Did my refund go through?

You already know what they're going to ask

Order status. Return policies. Shipping times. The same questions every day, while the ones that actually need you get buried.

67%

Leave after one bad experience

Two-thirds of your customers won’t come back after slow or unhelpful support. A shared inbox can’t keep up.

$2K+

What legacy tools actually cost

Gorgias charges per ticket. Intercom charges per seat. You just need someone to answer the easy stuff.

4hrs

Average response time for SMBs

Your customers expect answers in minutes. You’re juggling orders, marketing, and a support queue that never ends.

Act one — everywhere

One agent. Every inbox.

Your customers don’t pick a channel to be helpful. Ernest answers on all of them with the same knowledge, the same tools, and one conversation history you can actually read.

Website chat and email are live on every plan today. WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger are built and running in a private pilot while Meta finishes verifying us — ask us for access and we’ll add you.

Act two — resolves

Answering is the easy half.

A cancelled order is worth more than a paragraph explaining your cancellation policy. Ernest does the thing — and never does it twice, or without asking.

Resolves, not just answers

Connect Shopify or WooCommerce and Ernest acts: cancels unfulfilled orders, prepares refunds, and starts returns on Shopify. He verifies who he's talking to before he touches an order, proposes before he acts, waits for the customer to say yes — and every refund waits for yours.

  • Cancelled order #4829Refund issued · $86.00Shopify
  • Cancelled order #2071Order stopped before dispatchWooCommerce
  • Started return for #1120Label emailedShopify
  • Refund outside policy · #1082Waiting on your approvalShopify

Speaks your customer's language

Ernest detects the language of every message and replies in kind. No setup, no translation add-on.

Detected: Español

¿Puedo cambiar la talla de mi pedido?

Claro. Tu pedido aún no se ha enviado, así que puedo cambiarlo a talla M ahora mismo.

Perfecto, gracias

Learns your business in minutes

Paste a URL, connect docs, or upload PDFs. Ernest learns your policies, product specs, and FAQs, then keeps itself updated as they change.

help.yourstore.comreturns-policy.pdfShopify productsshipping-faq.md

Your 24/7 support agent

Embed one script tag and match the widget to your brand: colors, name, greeting. Works on Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, or any custom build.

Knows when to hand off

Complex or emotional issues get routed to your inbox with full context. No customer repeats themselves.

Escalated to your inbox

Refund requested outside the 30-day window on order #1082. Identity verified, full conversation attached.

Act three — what to fix

Every unanswered question, grouped and counted.

Ernest reads back every conversation he handled, finds the questions your site didn’t answer well, and merges the ones that mean the same thing. A topic surfaces once three or more customers have hit it — so what you see is a pattern, not an anecdote.

Included on every plan, free tier too

  • International shipping timesNot answered34 conversations
  • Return window after a saleUnclear27 conversations
  • Sizing between two stylesNot answered22 conversations
  • Where the tracking link isUnclear17 conversations

Every card quotes real customers word for word. A quote that isn’t a literal substring of a real message is thrown away — Ernest never paraphrases them at you.

See what yours says

Before you go live

Watch Ernest answer before your customers do.

Ernest writes customer-style questions from your own knowledge base and runs them through the real pipeline — same retrieval, same tools, same escalation rules. You read every answer before a single customer does.

  • Order actions are stripped from the toolset entirely. A simulation cannot cancel, return, or refund anything.
  • Read-only lookups still hit your live store, so the answers you read are the answers customers would get.

Or replay the real thing

Export your last tickets and drop the CSV in. Ernest answers them alongside what your team actually replied, so you can read the two side by side before you hand anything over.

GorgiasZendeskIntercomHelp Scoutdetected automatically — or map the columns yourself

Self test

10 questions

8 / 10

answered · 2 handed to a human

  • Do you ship to Ireland?
  • How long do refunds take to land?
  • Can I swap a gift without the receipt?
  • Is the Olive Field Jacket true to size?

A self test writes its questions from your knowledge base, so it shows how well your content covers them — it isn’t a prediction of how Ernest will do on real customer messages. Replaying your own tickets is the closer read. Both are on Starter and above, three runs a day, up to 50 tickets a run. See plans.

Growth and up

Bring your own tools.

Connect any Model Context Protocol server — your 3PL, your loyalty platform, your internal admin. Whatever it advertises becomes something Ernest can do for a customer, with no custom integration work. Up to three servers and twenty tools, and nothing runs until you tick it.

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Live in three steps

No consultants. No migration projects. Just connect and go.

01

Connect your knowledge

Paste URLs, upload PDFs, or connect your store. Ernest ingests your FAQs, policies, and product data in minutes.

02

Embed in one line

Drop a single script tag on your site. The chat widget matches your brand and works on any platform.

03

Ernest takes it from here

Your AI agent handles support 24/7: answering questions, cancelling orders, starting returns. Complex issues escalate to you with full context.

Built for businesses like yours

Solo founders

You’re the founder, the marketer, and the entire support team. Ernest clears the inbox so you can get back to building.

E-commerce brands

A hundred orders a day and tickets piling up. Ernest resolves the routine questions before they reach your team.

Agencies

One Ernest per client, each trained on its own knowledge base, each with its own connected tools. White-label on the Scale plan.

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The math makes sense.

Legacy tools charge by the seat and penalize you for using AI. Ernest includes AI at every tier.

Monthly cost
Legacy tools

$2,000+

Ernest

From $0

Free tier
Legacy tools

A trial, or a much smaller one

Ernest

100 conversations, no expiry

AI included
Legacy tools

$0.99/resolution add-on

Ernest

Yes, every tier

AI takes action (cancel, return, refund)
Legacy tools

Premium add-ons

Ernest

Included, you control approvals

Connect your own tools
Legacy tools

Custom development

Ernest

Any MCP server, Growth and up

Per-seat fees
Legacy tools

$55–139/seat

Ernest

None

Setup time
Legacy tools

Weeks + consultants

Ernest

30 minutes

Works on any site
Legacy tools

Platform-specific plugins

Ernest

One script tag

Ready to stop answering the same questions?

Start managing support the easy way. Setup in minutes, not weeks.

Start free

Free to start. Cancel anytime. On Shopify? Install from the App Store.