# Arbyn

> Arbyn is an AI customer support and sales agent built for Shopify that answers email and live chat in your brand voice, takes actions on orders, and drives revenue through cart recovery and product recommendations.

Arbyn is an AI-powered customer support and sales agent built exclusively for Shopify stores, developed by ONDUTYOPS LLC. It handles inbound email and live chat, replies in the store owner's voice, and takes real actions inside Shopify — canceling orders, issuing refunds, updating shipping addresses, and more. The product is available directly from the Shopify App Store and is designed to go live in under 10 minutes with no knowledge base to build.

## What It Is

Arbyn is a Shopify-native AI agent that sits between a store's support inbox and its Shopify admin. Unlike tools that generate draft replies and hand the work back to a human, Arbyn reads incoming emails and chats, classifies intent, pulls live Shopify order and catalog data, and either acts autonomously or queues an action for one-tap merchant approval. The agent covers both support (returns, refunds, address changes, order tracking) and sales (cart recovery, product recommendations, bundle offers, upsells in chat). It replies in 21 languages, auto-detected from the customer's message.

## How the Agent Works

Arbyn's workflow follows a structured autonomy model:

- **Shadow mode**: For the first 50 conversations, Arbyn drafts replies but never sends them. The merchant reviews and approves each one, and the agent calibrates its voice from those approvals.
- **Confidence scoring**: Every draft is scored. Anything below the merchant-set threshold goes to a draft review queue instead of sending automatically.
- **One-tap approval for money actions**: Refunds, cancellations, discounts, gift cards, and reships are drafted and held until the merchant approves with a single tap. Arbyn then performs the action in Shopify and confirms it to the customer.
- **Autonomous address changes**: Shipping address updates are handled by Arbyn without requiring merchant approval.
- **Shopify timeline logging**: Every action Arbyn takes is written to the Shopify order timeline, creating a full audit trail.

The guardrails engine lets merchants set a per-refund ceiling, block actions by order tag, define escalation triggers (legal threats, chargebacks, high-value customer tags), and use a kill switch that pauses all Arbyn activity instantly.

## Voice Fingerprint and Brand Tone

A core differentiator the product page highlights is the Voice Fingerprint system. Rather than requiring a pre-written knowledge base, Arbyn reads the store's policies, catalog, and shipping zones on install. During shadow mode, the replies the merchant approves teach the agent vocabulary, sentence structure, tone, and natural response length. The product claims that after the first 50 conversations, most drafts are approved without editing. Merchants can also set a starting tone (friendly and professional, concise, empathetic, formal, or casual) and paste brand-voice notes during setup.

## Sales Features Built Into Support

Arbyn positions its sales capabilities as running alongside support in the same conversation thread:

- **Cart recovery in chat**: When a shopper with an abandoned cart opens a chat, Arbyn surfaces the cart and works to close the sale.
- **Proactive chat triggers**: Dwell time on product pages, exit intent, and returning visitors who didn't buy can trigger Arbyn to open a chat proactively.
- **Bundle builder and product recommendations**: Arbyn suggests complementary items, bestsellers, and bundle offers inside the chat widget.
- **Shop by photo**: A shopper can photograph any product, and Arbyn matches it to the live catalog and returns a product card with image, price, and add-to-cart.
- **Revenue attribution**: Every order Arbyn sources is tagged on the Shopify order and tracked in a revenue attribution dashboard.

## Deployment Model and Setup Path

Arbyn installs from the Shopify App Store with a single click. On install, it reads the store's orders, catalog, policies, and shipping zones automatically — no manual knowledge base configuration is required. Email is connected by adding a forwarding rule in Gmail, Outlook, or any custom domain provider; Arbyn sends replies from the store's own address so customers never see a third-party sender. The product page states most stores go live in under 10 minutes.

The platform runs on multiple AI models with automatic failover. The product page notes a zero data retention policy: the AI does not train on or retain store data.

## Company Background

ONDUTYOPS LLC is a bootstrapped, single-founder company founded by Odera Echendu, who describes a background of seven years in customer success and technical support roles at SaaS and e-commerce companies, including Replo (Y Combinator S21) and OJMD Solutions. Arbyn is the company's second Shopify app, following Tacey, an AI fraud and order guard tool. The about page states the company has no outside capital and no human employees, with the product built and operated using a team of AI agents across engineering and marketing functions, each disclosed as "AI EMPLOYEE" on the team page.

## Features
- AI email support agent
- Live chat widget
- Shopify-native order actions (cancel, refund, discount, gift card, reship, return)
- Autonomous shipping address updates
- Voice Fingerprint — drafts in your brand voice
- Shadow mode for safe onboarding
- Confidence scoring and draft review queue
- Guardrails engine with refund ceiling and escalation rules
- Kill switch to pause all activity instantly
- Shopify order timeline logging
- 21-language auto-detection and reply
- Cart recovery in chat
- Proactive chat triggers (dwell time, exit intent, browse-no-buy)
- Bundle builder and in-chat upsells
- Shop by photo (visual product search)
- Product recommendations in chat
- Revenue attribution dashboard
- CSAT tracking on every resolved conversation
- Analytics dashboard (response time, resolution rate, CSAT)
- Custom rules engine in plain language
- Multiple AI models with automatic failover
- Zero data retention policy
- Unlimited team seats (Beta)
- Setup wizard — no knowledge base to write
- Shopify catalog and policy sync on install
- Photo-verified returns
- Gift card and store credit lookup
- Smart escalation with full thread context
- Automated review requests (coming soon)
- Instagram DMs (coming soon)
- Facebook Messenger (coming soon)
- SMS support (coming soon)

## Integrations
Shopify, Shopify Plus, Gmail, Outlook, Instagram (coming soon), Facebook Messenger (coming soon), SMS (coming soon), WhatsApp (coming soon)

## Platforms
WINDOWS, IOS, WEB, API

## Pricing
Freemium — Free tier available with paid upgrades

## Links
- Website: https://arbyn.app
- Documentation: https://help.arbyn.app/
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/arbyn