Context determines where to look. Retrieval determines what to look at. AI determines what to do.

Every AnswerBnB conversation runs through the same seven-stage chain, in order — no step skipped, nothing answered from a vacuum.

01

Connect

Business systems and knowledge — property listings, reservation data, product catalogs, support histories — are connected as sources the platform can draw on.

02

Understand

Before anything is retrieved, the Context Resolution Engine identifies who and what a conversation is actually about: which organization, property, reservation, order, or ticket. Context determines where to look.

03

Retrieve

Only knowledge scoped to that resolved context is retrieved — never a blind search across every property or customer in the account. Retrieval determines what to look at.

04

Evaluate

Retrieved evidence is checked for relevance, source authority, and freshness. Conflicting sources are flagged rather than silently resolved.

05

Decide

The Safe Answer Layer chooses one of a small set of honest outcomes: answer, clarify, escalate, flag a conflict, or take an approved action. It is not optimized to always produce an answer.

06

Automate

Where a workflow has been explicitly approved and the AI's confidence and permissions support it, an action executes — within the boundaries it's been given, not beyond them.

07

Improve

Human corrections, escalations, and repeated unanswered questions feed back into the knowledge base, so the same gap doesn't recur.