Watch AI Follow Up With a Lead: a 2-Minute Walkthrough

You don't need to imagine what AI lead follow-up looks like. We put a working one on our website, free to play with, no signup: the live AI chatbot demo. This post walks you through it, screenshot by screenshot, so you know exactly what to expect before you try it — or before you decide to get one for your own business.

The whole thing takes about two minutes.

Step 1: Pick a demo and read your role

Open the demo page and scroll to the chat window. There are three demos — one where you play a customer, one trained on this website, and one where you play an employee. Each has a short line telling you who you're pretending to be.

You start here. Pick a tab, and the box above the chat tells you your role.

For this walkthrough, stay on Lead Follow-Up. You're a customer of a made-up home repair company called BrightNest. Your tap is leaking.

Step 2: Ask what a real customer would ask

You can type anything, or just click one of the suggested questions. We clicked "My kitchen tap is leaking — how much would a fix cost?"

Look at the answer. It gives a real price range, then asks where you are and how urgent it is.

Notice two things. First, the answer came back in about two seconds — at any hour, on any day. Second, the bot didn't just answer. It asked for your area and urgency. That's called qualifying a lead, and it's what a good salesperson would do. The difference is this one never gets busy, tired, or forgetful.

Step 3: Ask the question that matters — "what if I go quiet?"

Most leads don't buy on the first conversation. They say "let me think about it" and disappear. This is where most businesses lose the deal — we wrote a whole post about that gap.

So we asked the bot directly: what happens if I stop replying?

This is the heart of it: the follow-up happens automatically, and you can say "stop" anytime.

That's AI lead follow-up in one screenshot. A recap email within the hour. A friendly text the next day. A final check-in a few days later. Nobody on your team has to remember to do any of it.

Step 4: The honest ending

Every demo conversation stops after 5 of your messages. When you hit the limit, you see this:

The demo caps at 5 messages to keep our costs sane. Your own chatbot would have no such limit.

We're pointing this out on purpose: the cap is a safety rail we built, and every chatbot we ship has rails like it — usage caps, abuse filters, and honest "I don't know" answers. If a company selling you AI can't show you its guardrails, that's a red flag.

Step 5: Try the version trained on a real website

Click the Website Concierge tab. This one has read this actual website — the services, the process, the blog. Ask it what to read next and it answers with real links:

It cites its sources. Your version would do this with your pages, your prices, your policies.

This is the same idea your customers would experience on your site: answers that come from your real content, not from the internet's imagination.

What one of these costs

The short version: a website Q&A chatbot starts around $500 and goes live in 1–2 weeks. Lead follow-up with contact capture and automatic sequences starts around $900. The full setup with CRM integration starts around $1,500. Running costs are typically $10–40 a month, with hard caps so there are no surprise bills. The demo page has the full breakdown — including the five steps from first call to launch.

And if you want to see the other side — what you would look at day to day as the owner — we made a plain-English tour of the chatbot dashboard too.

Go play with it: ynexgen.com/ai-chatbot-demo. Then, if you're curious what this would look like for your business, ask us — it's free.