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Reply to a visitor yourself, then hand back to the assistant

The assistant answers what your content answers. When it should not be the one talking, step in.

  1. 1

    Open the conversation

    In Conversations, open the thread. The list updates while you have it open, so a new conversation appears at the top without a reload.

  2. 2

    Type your reply

    It reaches the visitor at once, captioned with your name and avatar and your team label. The assistant pauses on this conversation — thirty minutes by default; the window is a site setting.

  3. 3

    Hold it, or hand it back

    Press Pause AI to keep the assistant out for as long as you like, and Hand back to AI when you are done. While paused, the visitor’s messages still reach you.

  4. 4

    Close it

    Set the status to Closed or Archived when the conversation is over. You can reopen it later, and it stays searchable.

A Genie AI conversation open in the dashboard: the visitor asks whether two people on a team can answer chats at once, the assistant replies that it does not have that information, and a colleague from support answers in the same thread — with the reply box, Request Email and Pause AI beneathClick to enlarge

Sign in and do it.

About 2 minutes in the dashboard, and the free plan is enough.