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Make a smart router the center of your chatbot

2 hoverbot 1 8/25/2025, 4:50:37 AM hoverbot.ai ↗

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hoverbot · 14d ago
Author here. We run chatbots with a smart router: classify noise/PII first, call retrieval+LLM only when needed, and use deterministic flows for actions. This keeps latency and cost down and makes behavior explainable. What would you add or change?