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# Greatstore

Greatstore puts an AI assistant on your storefront that can search your catalogue, answer questions from your own documents, and show interactive components right inside the chat.

You configure it in the admin. Shoppers meet it on your site.

<button type="button" class="button primary" data-action="ask" data-icon="gitbook-assistant">Ask a question…</button>

<button type="button" class="button secondary" data-action="ask" data-query="How do I install the chat widget?" data-icon="code">Install the widget</button><button type="button" class="button secondary" data-action="ask" data-query="What can the assistant answer from?" data-icon="book">What it can answer</button><button type="button" class="button secondary" data-action="ask" data-query="How do credits work?" data-icon="coins">How credits work</button>

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## Start here

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## By what you're trying to do

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## The two halves

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**The admin** — where you set things up. Brand and persona, the documents the assistant can answer from, the connectors it searches, the components it can render, and the metrics that come back.
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**The storefront** — where shoppers meet it. A chat panel on your own site that can search, compare, answer policy questions, and hand off to checkout.

See [The shopper experience](/maker-greatstore/get-started/the-shopper-experience.md).
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{% hint style="info" %}
Every setting in the admin has a shopper-visible consequence. Configuration pages in these docs carry a **What the shopper sees** section so you can check the result without switching context.
{% endhint %}


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