Your business now runs itself.
Runambiz gives every small business a free website and an AI assistant that chats with customers on WhatsApp and Telegram, answers their questions, takes their orders, collects payment, and tells the owner when the money lands.
Set it up once, in about ten minutes. It works while you sleep, and it holds a hundred conversations at the same time without losing track of a single one.
About Runambiz
Runambiz is an AI-powered store manager built for African small businesses — the vendors, tailors, food sellers, salons, gadget dealers and service providers who run their entire trade through WhatsApp, Instagram and word of mouth.
Most of these businesses have no website, no order system and no way to keep up with messages. A flyer goes out, fifty enquiries arrive, and maybe fifteen get a reply. The rest go cold — not because the business is bad, but because one human cannot chat, cook, sew, deliver and reconcile payments at the same time.
Runambiz closes that gap with a single setup. The seller fills a dashboard with products, prices, delivery zones, FAQs and payment details. That dashboard becomes the brain. From it, Runambiz generates a live store website and powers an AI assistant that plugs into WhatsApp and Telegram, answering customers day and night, in as many conversations as arrive at once.
Purpose
Runambiz exists to close the gap between attention and income. African small businesses are excellent at getting attention — flyers spread, status views climb, referrals arrive. What breaks is everything after the first message: slow replies, repeated questions, lost order details, unconfirmed transfers, forgotten follow-ups. Sales leak out of that gap every day.
Stated plainly, our purpose is to:
- Make every small business reachable 24 hours a day without hiring anyone.
- Turn casual chats into confirmed, recorded, paid orders.
- Give every vendor a real web presence at zero cost to start.
- Put all sales history, customer data and revenue in one place the owner controls.
- Keep the price low enough that a market seller can genuinely afford it.
How it works
Five steps, roughly ten minutes of setup.
Step 1 — Create your store
Sign up with an email. Enter your business name, what you sell, your location and your working hours. The AI setup assistant asks short questions and fills most of it in for you.
Step 2 — Build your brain
Add products with photos, prices, descriptions and a short code such as A12. Add FAQs, delivery zones and fees, account details, and any rules the assistant must follow. This is the memory it answers from — nothing invented, nothing guessed.
Step 3 — Publish your website
One tap generates a live storefront at your own Runambiz link. Share it on status, in your bio, on flyers. Customers browse everything, tap a product, and start a chat with the order already attached.
Step 4 — Connect your channels
Link a Telegram bot in under a minute, free. Optionally connect a dedicated business WhatsApp number so the assistant handles that line completely while your personal number stays private. Connect Paystack for automatic card payments.
Step 5 — Let it run
Customers message. The assistant greets them, answers questions, recommends products, quotes delivery, takes the order, sends the payment link and confirms receipt. You get an instant alert for every order and watch it all from one dashboard.
Businesses that need this
Any business where customers arrive by message rather than by walking in.
| Business type | What Runambiz handles for them |
|---|---|
| Fashion and fabric vendors | Catalog browsing, size and colour questions, deposits, delivery quotes |
| Food vendors and small restaurants | Menu, daily availability, order taking, pickup and delivery windows |
| Salons, barbers, spas | Service list, pricing, booking requests, reminders |
| Gadget and phone dealers | Stock checks, specs, price negotiation limits, warranty FAQs |
| Cosmetics and skincare sellers | Product education, bundle recommendations, repeat orders |
| Home services | Job scoping, quotes, scheduling, address collection |
| Event vendors | Package explanation, date checks, deposit collection |
| Digital and creative freelancers | Service packages, scope questions, invoicing |
| Anyone selling through Instagram or WhatsApp | Everything above |
Benefits
You stop losing customers
Every message gets a reply in seconds, at any hour, in any volume.
You get your time back
The same six questions get asked forever. The assistant answers them permanently.
Your personal life stays private
Your personal number is never touched — friends and family message you as normal.
Nothing gets lost
Every order is a record with items, price, address, channel and payment status.
You look bigger than you are
A real website and instant professional replies make a one-person shop read as a serious company.
It costs almost nothing to start
Free tier includes the website, the assistant, Telegram and unlimited products.
What it does and how it helps
| What Runambiz does | How that helps the business |
|---|---|
| Generates a live store website | Instant credibility and one link to share everywhere |
| Answers customers on WhatsApp and Telegram | No missed enquiries, no repeated typing |
| Handles unlimited conversations at once | A flyer post no longer overwhelms you |
| Recommends products and upsells naturally | Higher order value without hard selling |
| Quotes delivery fees by zone | No back-and-forth, no underquoting |
| Collects full order details before handoff | Serious orders instead of "hi how much" |
| Sends payment links and confirms automatically | Money confirmed without checking your bank app |
| Generates and emails invoices | A professional record for both sides |
| Alerts you instantly on every order | You act on fulfilment, not on chatting |
| Escalates what it can't answer | The assistant never guesses or embarrasses you |