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Ideas, updates, and field notes from the hiroi team.

Product deep dives, engineering write-ups, and practical guidance on deploying AI agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS.

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Product

hiroi in Microsoft Teams: your assistant, where you already work.

Chat with your hiroi assistant inside Teams. Search your calendar, RSVP to meetings, find files across OneDrive and SharePoint, and draft email — without leaving the window.

TS
Apr 20 · 6 min
Features

Page-aware AI: your agent can read and edit content.

Page Integration lets your AI agent read page content, highlight text, scroll to sections, and suggest edits in real time — with a visual diff the user can accept or dismiss.

TS
Mar 5 · 6 min
Business

The future of AI agents: 7 trends for 2026 and beyond.

Multimodal interfaces, page-aware AI, voice-first design, proactive engagement, and agent workflows — what's shaping customer-facing AI this year.

TS
Mar 26 · 6 min
Guides

Embed a chatbot on Shopify without hiring a developer.

A step-by-step walkthrough for adding an AI agent to your Shopify store — including order lookup, product recommendations, and post-purchase support flows.

KD
Mar 12 · 8 min
Engineering

RAG for knowledge-base chatbots: patterns that actually work.

How we chunk, embed, and retrieve documents for customer-facing agents — including the failure modes we see most often and how to avoid them.

JM
Feb 28 · 9 min
Security

Secure chatbot embedding: CSP, session signing, and prompt isolation.

What to lock down when you drop an AI widget onto your website. Origin policies, session-signed auth, and keeping prompts out of the DOM.

TS
Feb 18 · 7 min
Features

Multilingual chatbots that don't feel translated.

How hiroi agents detect language, switch mid-conversation, and keep tone and persona consistent across 40+ locales.

LO
Feb 10 · 5 min
Product

Live call escalation: handing off with an AI briefing.

When an AI call needs a human, hiroi summarizes the conversation, shares the schema state, and dials in the right person — no ramp-up required.

TS
Feb 3 · 5 min
Business

A practical ROI calculator for AI support agents.

Stop guessing. Walk through the inputs that matter — deflection rate, containment, average handle time — and the traps most vendors hide.

KD
Jan 24 · 7 min
Guides

AI-guided onboarding for SaaS: less drop-off, more activation.

Turn static product tours into conversational onboarding. How to pick trigger moments, scope the agent, and measure activation lift.

LO
Jan 15 · 8 min
Engineering

Embedding hiroi in React and Next.js apps.

The minimal setup for adding the widget to a modern React stack — including App Router, SSR caveats, and hydration-safe initialization.

JM
Jan 8 · 6 min

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