Question Base vs smao

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Question Base compared with smao
Detail	Question Base	smao
What it does	AI Answer Agent for Slack that answers repetitive questions from your team using your documentation	AI phone assistant that answers calls, clarifies inquiries, and hands over to your team
Stage	Not given	Startup
Founded	2022	2025
Based in	US	DE
Pricing model	Paid	Freemium
Pricing	Proof of Concept: $1,000 for 2 months. Annual Pro: Starting at $6,000/year ($5/user/month paid annually). Enterprise+: Starting at $20,000/year ($15/user/month paid annually).	Pay as you Go: 0.35 € per minute without base fee; Advanced: 249 € per month (annual contract) or 299 € monthly, 1,250 minutes included; Scale: 449 € per month (annual contract) or 499 € monthly, 3,000 minutes included; Enterprise: from 0.15 € per minute; additional chat messages at 0.006 € each, SM
Key features	Instant answers from Slack with 3.2-second response time Integrations with Google Drive, Confluence, Notion, Salesforce and 10+ other platforms Answer verification and control by knowledge experts Duplicate detection and answer insights Performance dashboard tracking automation rate and question performance Escalation workflow to route unanswered questions to human experts Knowledge capture and FAQ creation from chat conversations Role permissions and access controls Customizable agent prompts and behavior settings	Call analysis: automatically evaluates conversations and transfers inquiries, contact details and urgency to CRM, ticketing or workflows Internal dashboard chat for simulating calls and testing knowledge database Outbound calling: scheduled or event-based calls with clean tracking Personal call transfer to the right contact person Call transcripts: all conversations documented, traceable and exportable Widgets for simple interfaces leading callers to the AI assistant Knowledge database: answers from your own know-how, versioned and controllable Support for 10+ languages including German and Swiss German On-Premises deployment option on customer's Linux and Docker infrastructure
What makes it different	99.99% accuracy on verified answers with expert control Usage-based pricing without expensive per-seat licenses Continuous learning that improves automation rates over time Measurable ROI with 90% of repetitive questions auto-answered	No OpenAI or US AI subprocessors in conversation processing Cloud hosting in Germany with GDPR and EU AI Act compliance No AI training with customer data Setup in minutes without technical knowledge required 50 free minutes for testing without credit card
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	49 +1 (up) since last check	35 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	22	12
Citation Flow (Majestic)	37	26
Referring domains (Majestic)	362	44

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