Hey Sumo-lings,

When we launched, a lot of you dropped the same request in the comments and DMs: "Let me use my own AI provider key."

We heard you, and today it's shipped.

What BYOK gives you:

• Plug your own API key into AI SmartTalk and route any capability through it.
• Configure Chat (LLM), Embeddings, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and Vision independently.
• Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), or Mistral.
• Point at a self-hosted Ollama instance, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (vLLM, OpenRouter, Together, Groq…).
• Calls routed through your key are billed directly by your provider, so they consume 0 AI SmartTalk tokens.

Why it matters for you:

• Full cost control. Already have provider credits or volume pricing? Use them. Your key, your bill.
• No lock-in, mix freely.
• Set once, use everywhere. Keys live at the organization level and are shared across all your assistants. Switch the active model per capability in one click.

Where to find it:

Open any assistant → AI Model → Custom mode → "Use my own API key" on any capability, or "Manage keys" to add and organize your providers.

This one came straight from your feedback, so keep it coming. Drop your next request in the comments or on our roadmap page; the roadmap is yours as much as ours.

Thanks for building this with us,

Odran & Pierre-Antoine, AI SmartTalk

Hey Sumo-lings,

I'm Odran, co-founder of AI SmartTalk. Pierre-Antoine (our CTO) and I started this as a weekend hack on PrestaShop, trying to give small e-commerce shops the kind of AI conversations only big brands could afford. It worked. We kept going.

Today AI SmartTalk lets you deploy conversational AI agents across 7+ channels (web, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Discord, Gmail, Slack) in 37 languages. One agent, one knowledge base, everywhere your customers actually are.

We're bootstrapped. Every dollar we earn pays for one more feature, one more language, one more channel. That's exactly why AppSumo made sense for us. We get to put our product in front of builders who actually use it, not investors who'll never touch it.

What's in it for you:

• Multichannel from day one, no upsell on channels

• 37 languages with native quality

• Real knowledge base management, not just FAQ injection

• Native iOS and Android app to manage agents on the go

• GDPR-ready by default (we're French, it's how we ship)

• Token Pack add-ons if you ever need more juice

We'll be active in the comments throughout the campaign. Drop questions, feature requests, integrations you'd kill for. We read everything.

Thanks for taking a look.

Odran & PA