كليم

Support that speaks
their language.

Kalim is a shared inbox for WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and your website chat, with an AI support agent. It answers your customers in Arabic or English, cites the article the answer came from, and hands the conversation to a person the moment it cannot.

No card. One snippet. Your team is answering in about ten minutes.

Kalim · website chat
متى يصل طلبي؟
Kalim AI التوصيل داخل المدينة من 24 إلى 48 ساعة، وإلى بقية المناطق 3 أيام عمل. Answered from: Shipping times
Can I change the address after ordering?
Sara · support Yes — until it ships. I've just updated it to the new one.
2.7 KBof JavaScript before anyone clicks
6channels, one inbox
$0.026per AI-resolved conversation
2scripts, one thread

Every message, one inbox

Your customers write where they already are — WhatsApp at midnight, Instagram after seeing a post, Messenger from your Page, the chat on your site. Your team answers all of it from the same screen, in the same thread, with the same saved replies and the same AI.

Website chat

One script tag. Under 3 KB before anyone opens it.

WhatsApp Business

Cloud API. Replies inside the 24-hour window cost nothing.

Instagram Direct

DMs from the account linked to your Page, answered like any other message.

Facebook Messenger

Messages to your Page, with the sender's name rather than an id.

Telegram

A bot token is the whole setup; Kalim registers the webhook.

Email

An address customers write to, threaded into conversations.

Every channel is on every plan, free included. Connecting one is a page id, a token and a paste of the webhook URL — the screen that asks for them shows both.

Chat on your site, done properly

Not a bubble that opens an empty box. It knows who is writing, keeps their thread between visits, and gives your agents everything they need to answer in one screen.

One snippet, then you're live

Paste it before </body>. The loader is 2.7 KB gzipped and the chat itself only downloads when somebody actually clicks it — your Lighthouse score will not notice we are there.

Tell it who is chatting and your agents see the customer's name, plan and order id before they type a word. You decide which of those fields are required; an install missing one is refused at install time, not discovered months later in a half-empty CRM.

<script>
  window.KalimSettings = {
    websiteId: 'your-website-id',
    identity: {
      externalId: 'user_8814',
      firstName: 'Nadia',
      attributes: { tier: 'Gold' },
      hmac: '…signed on your server',
    },
  };
</script>
<script src="https://cdn.kalimchat.com/loader.js" async></script>

An AI agent you can actually audit

Most support AI is a black box with a credit meter attached. Ours shows the bill, the sources, and the choice of engine — including running an open-source model on your own hardware, where the only cost is electricity.

It cites, or it hands over

An answer that cannot point at a help-centre article is never sent. It becomes a handoff with the draft attached, because a confident wrong answer costs more than a queued ticket.

You pick the engine

Run the same question through Claude and an open-source model side by side, read both replies, and keep the one that suits your customers. Then route Arabic to one and English to the other if that is what wins.

The bill is on screen

Cost per resolved conversation, measured — not estimated — next to what it should be and what the alternatives charge.

Cost per AI-resolved conversation
Kalim, routed and cached $0.026 Small model first, warm prompt cache
Kalim, on your own hardware $0.00 Open-source model, your GPU, your data
A large model, no caching $0.081 Full prompt re-sent every turn
What Crisp charges $0.056 Derived from their credit tiers

Built here, not translated here

Arabic is not an afterthought

Most tools bolt right-to-left on at the end and it shows: the caret starts on the wrong side, dates come out backwards, and the AI answers formal Arabic to someone who wrote in their own dialect.

Kalim types right-to-left per message rather than per app, so one thread holds both scripts without either looking like a mistake. The AI answers in the language, variety and register the customer used — Modern Standard or dialect — and you can point Arabic conversations at a model chosen for Arabic.

Their message
لدي مشكلة في الفاتورة، ما الحل؟
Your reply, drafted
نعتذر عن الإزعاج. نراجع فاتورتك الآن ونعود إليك في أقرب وقت.
Same thread, in English
Also — can I pay on delivery?

Flat. Not per seat.

Charging per seat makes a growing team think twice about adding the person who would answer faster. So the paid plans are one price however many people you put in the inbox — what changes is how much of the work you do yourself.

Free

$0/month

One person, answering their own customers.

  • Website chat on unlimited sites
  • Help centre and saved replies
  • Arabic and English, right to left
  • One seat — no team
  • No AI, no reports
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Team

$19/month

Everyone in one inbox, flat.

  • Unlimited people, roles and assignment
  • See the message before it is sent
  • Private notes and full history
  • No AI
  • No reports or Shopify
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Every plan gets every channel. The AI stops rather than overcharging you, and we never bill for it without asking first.

Questions people ask before signing up

If yours is not here, the chat in the corner is the product — ask it, and a person picks up whatever it cannot answer.

01 of 09

What is Kalim?

Kalim is customer support software: a website chat widget your visitors write into, a shared inbox where your team answers, and an AI agent that can answer on its own from your help centre. It works in Arabic and English in the same conversation, and it is free for one person.

02 of 09

Does the live chat work in Arabic?

Yes, and not as a translation layer. Every message sets its own direction, so an Arabic message renders right-to-left and an English one left-to-right in the same thread, typed in IBM Plex Sans Arabic rather than a fallback face. The AI replies in whichever language the customer wrote in — including Modern Standard Arabic and regional dialects — and you can send Arabic conversations to a model chosen for Arabic while English stays on another.

03 of 09

How much does Kalim cost?

Three plans. Free is $0 for one person and stays free. Team is $19 a month for as many people as you like. Premium is $49 a month and adds the AI agent, the copilot, team reports and Shopify orders. The paid plans are flat, not per seat: adding the person who would answer faster should not cost you more.

04 of 09

Is it a Crisp or Intercom alternative?

It is built for the same job — website chat plus a shared inbox — with three differences that matter if you answer in Arabic or sell online: the whole product is bilingual rather than translated, the AI has to cite a help-centre article or it hands over instead of guessing, and the price is flat rather than per seat with AI sold as credits. What you would pay for twenty people on Kalim is under fifty dollars.

05 of 09

Can the AI answer questions about a customer's order?

Yes, once you connect Shopify. "Where is my order?" is answered from the order itself — the order number, whether it has shipped, the tracking number and carrier — rather than from your shipping policy. Kalim asks the shop only when the question is about that customer's own account, and it connects with read-only access: it can never change or refund anything in your store.

06 of 09

What stops the AI from inventing an answer?

A citation gate. The model is given only the articles retrieved from your help centre and must point at the one it used; an answer with no citation is never sent, and the conversation goes to a person with the draft attached. Anything about a specific customer's account is treated as unanswerable from documentation and handed over unless the real record — an order, for instance — is connected.

07 of 09

How long does it take to install?

About ten minutes. You paste one script tag before </body> and the chat is live; the loader is under 3 KB and the chat interface itself loads only when someone opens it. If you want your agents to see who they are talking to, you pass a signed identity — email, name, plan, order id or anything else you define — from your own server.

08 of 09

Can I run the AI on my own model?

Yes. Kalim speaks the OpenAI-compatible chat API that Ollama, vLLM and TGI serve, so an open-source model on your own hardware is a first-class engine rather than a fallback — your conversations never leave your machines. You can also bring your own Claude key, and compare engines side by side on cost, latency and whether the citation gate would have withheld the answer before choosing.

09 of 09

Where is our data stored?

In one Postgres database with row-level security, so every query is scoped to your workspace by the database itself rather than by application code remembering to filter. Provider keys and channel credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, file links are signed and expire, and private notes are never delivered to a visitor's browser.

Your customers are already writing.

The only question is which inbox it lands in.

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The chat in the corner is this product. Ask it something.