Channels and integrations

Connected to what you already run

Meet customers on the channels they already use, read the databases and files you already keep, and hand off into the tools your team already staffs.

Channels

Wherever the questiongets asked

A channel is where a conversation happens. One agent runs across all of them, and every conversation lands in the same shared inbox with its history intact, so a handoff to a person never starts from scratch.

Data sources

Point it at the datayou already have

ChatPlotDB is database-agnostic. Register a SQL database, a DynamoDB source, or a spreadsheet, or compose several into one conversation and ask a question that spans them.

Tools

And into the rest of your stack

Relay learns from the tools your team already writes in, answers from your live commerce and billing data, and escalates into the helpdesk you already staff. WhatsApp, Slack, and Telegram are live today; the rest are in build.

WhatsApp

Answers on the WhatsApp Business number your customers already message, right in the thread.

Slack

Answers inside your workspace, so questions get resolved without anyone leaving the channel.

Telegram

Runs on a bot token with no review and no approval queue, live the same afternoon.

Messenger & Instagram

Picks up Facebook Messenger and Instagram DMs alongside every other channel.

Email

Turns inbound support email into conversations Relay can answer or escalate.

WordPress

Drops the widget onto a WordPress site with a plugin instead of a code change.

Shopify

Reads your store's catalogue so Relay answers product questions from live data.

Zendesk

Escalates into Zendesk as a ticket, with the whole conversation attached.

Connection FAQs

A channel is where a conversation happens: the web widget, WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram. An integration is a system the agent reads from or writes back to, like a database, a helpdesk, or a CRM.

Slack is both, which is why the two live on one page: Relay answers questions in a channel there, and it is also where escalations get posted.

The web widget, WhatsApp, Slack, and Telegram. Email, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram are in build.

We flag each one as it lands rather than listing everything as available: if a card here doesn't say live, it isn't yet.

Every conversation lands in one shared inbox regardless of the channel it arrived on, with its full history attached.

That history is what makes handoff work: when Relay isn't confident or the customer asks for a person, your team picks the thread up mid-conversation instead of asking them to start again.

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB, and uploaded CSV or Excel files. A stitched config can compose two to five databases into one conversation, so a single question spans all of them.

Connection credentials are encrypted at rest and never returned to the client: the interface only shows a redacted summary.

Yes, three ways. Hand over an OpenAPI spec and the agent calls your own endpoints mid-conversation; connect any MCP-compliant tool for real-time data and actions; or fire a webhook on every conversation and drive whatever runs next yourself.

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