# Create an AI Chatbot

You can use the Captivate platform to **create your AI Chatbot**. They can be custom-tailored to fit specific functionalities, fed information to improve their knowledge base, and trained with specific questions and answers. 

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**SUMMARY**

Creating an AI Chatbot with Captivate is fast and easy. You can do it in a few steps:

1. **Set up your AI Chatbot:** Give it a name and logo. This is for internal purposes and makes your AI Chatbot easy to track by the time you make a lot of them in the platform.
2. **Upload your data:** The *Import Your Own Information* page lets you paste URLs and upload PDFs to be ingested as data. Your AI Chatbot will use this as its knowledgebase.
3. **Select a template:** The *Select Type (Prompts)* page lets you choose a pre-made personality template for your AI Chatbot. You can edit this further with prompts in specialized options.
4. **Conduct training:** The *Train Your AI Chatbot* page lets you ask questions, correct answers, and even upload CSV spreadsheet files as Q\&A sources of your AI Chatbot. 
5. **Select integration:** Include additional features to your AI Chatbot, such as functionalities supported by third-party programs (connected via Zapier Actions) or creating Mini Courses courtesy of Captivate's Athena.
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To start creating your AI Chatbots, proceed with the following steps:


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Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://manual.captivatechat.ai/start-creating/create-an-ai-chatbot.md?ask=<question>
```

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Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.