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the full AI stack of a DTC brand: from lead ads to reviews.

heysteff is an AI platform for customer support and sales across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Gmail and Shopify; Steff is the AI agent that runs it. A DTC brand doesn't need six different tools to cover the whole customer cycle: with heysteff, the same agent and the same database go along from the first click on an ad to the review after the purchase.

1. Facebook Lead Ads → immediate conversation

When someone completes a Facebook Lead Ads form, heysteff receives it as an event and can trigger an automatic flow that starts the conversation right away — over WhatsApp if they left their phone number — instead of letting the lead go cold waiting for manual follow-up. The founder can optionally configure the flow to fire only for a specific form when running several campaigns in parallel.

2. Conversational qualification

Instead of a rigid questionnaire, the agent asks — inside the normal conversation — for the data points the founder defined as relevant to qualify: budget, location, urgency, whatever applies to the business — and saves them to the contact's profile. With that data already qualified, Steff decides whether the next step is scheduling or going straight to the sale.

This is the step that's usually missing when a DTC brand wires ads straight into a generic chatbot: without qualification, the sales team receives the same volume of conversations without knowing which ones are worth prioritizing. With qualification already done by the agent, every lead that reaches a person arrives with the context needed to decide in seconds whether it moves forward.

3. Scheduling or direct sale

If the business needs a call or a demo before closing, the built-in scheduling proposes real time slots synced with Google Calendar, inside the same conversation. If the product sells directly from the catalog, Steff moves the sale forward right there, with the already-qualified data as context.

4. Abandoned cart, if checkout isn't completed

If you sell on Shopify and the customer gets to the cart but doesn't complete the purchase, automatic abandoned-cart recovery picks the conversation back up — heysteff's own published figure is an average 4.2x recovery versus doing nothing.

5. Post-purchase: review request

When Shopify marks the order as fulfilled, heysteff Reviews — heysteff's reviews product for Shopify, installed separately from the core agent — messages the customer over WhatsApp or email asking for their opinion as a conversation, with room for a rating, text, photo and video. That review, once moderated, is displayed on the storefront with the theme editor widgets.

6. Repurchase

The cycle closes with a follow-up flow — built with the same visual builder — that invites a repurchase at the right moment, using the customer's purchase history as context. The same agent that answered the customer's first question is the one that asks for the review and reminds them it's time to buy again: there's no handoff between different tools.

What the founder configures at each link

The real work isn't technical, it's judgment: in Lead Ads, deciding which form triggers the flow and with what opening message. In qualification, deciding which three or four data points actually separate a good lead from one that won't buy. In scheduling, connecting the right calendar and defining the team's real availability. In abandoned cart, defining the message and the waiting time. In reviews, deciding the moderation threshold and which widgets to show. In repurchase, defining the product's typical repurchase cycle. Each piece is configured once, from the panel, and runs on its own from then on.

◆ the star flow

What makes the full stack different isn't any single link, it's that one agent and one contact travel the entire cycle, without re-entering data at every step.

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