The fastest way to add AI chat to a Teachable site. SmartWidget deploys via a single JavaScript snippet pasted into Site > Code Snippets > Footer. Reads your existing site, configures itself, and goes live in under five minutes. £19/month, no contract, cancel any time.
An AI chat widget for Teachable turns a passive site into an active sales tool. SmartWidget engages every visitor instantly, answers their questions about your services in real time, qualifies the enquiry against your business rules, and either books them in directly or alerts you on SMS when an urgent lead lands. The install is one line of JavaScript pasted into Site > Code Snippets > Footer. Five minutes. £19/mo.
The full install end-to-end. Five steps, about five minutes from signup to the first answered visitor.
The exact panel and field to paste the snippet on every supported platform. Teachable is highlighted first.
The setup dashboard runs the entire SmartWidget configuration for your Teachable site. The AI's understanding of your business is shown as editable Q&A pairs; the appearance is shown as a live preview; the integrations are shown as toggles; the escalation rules are shown as ordered conditions. Everything is editable in real time and every change propagates to your Teachable site within seconds. No engineer ever touches the setup.
Visitors to a Teachable site convert better when they get an answer instantly. That's the consistent finding across every chat-widget A/B test on the market. The challenge has historically been cost — live chat needs human operators, and human operators cost £24,000 a year and only work 9 to 5. SmartWidget answers the same questions 24/7 from £19 a month. The install is one line of JavaScript pasted into Site > Code Snippets > Footer.
Every visitor your Teachable site receives has a conversation that lands in this inbox. Some are auto-handled by the AI in under eight seconds and you never need to look at them — they appear in the Completed tab. Others are escalated to you in real time, with an SMS ping to your mobile. Others again you choose to take over for relationship reasons. The inbox is the operating console for the widget on your Teachable site, and it scales from one site to many.
Remove the single line of JavaScript from Site > Code Snippets > Footer and save. The widget disappears immediately. There is nothing else to uninstall from Teachable — no database tables, no orphaned files, no leftover configuration.
Yes. Multi-site is built in from the Growth tier. One SmartWidget subscription can run widgets across multiple Teachable sites, each with its own AI personality, knowledge base and unified inbox. Particularly useful for agencies running client Teachable sites or operators with multiple brand sites.
Yes. The widget is responsive by default and works on every Teachable mobile breakpoint. The chat bubble sits in the bottom corner on every screen size and the chat interface adapts to mobile-optimised layout when a visitor opens it on a phone.
Yes. The widget integrates with Google Calendar, Outlook (Microsoft Graph), and the built-in SmartWidget scheduler. Visitors browsing your Teachable site can be offered specific appointment slots and book directly inside the chat. The event writes back to your calendar with the conversation transcript attached.
A small number of Teachable entry-level tiers restrict custom code. In that case, upgrading to a tier that allows custom JavaScript is the only path. If Teachable does not allow custom code on any tier, SmartWidget cannot be installed — but this is rare. Almost every modern Teachable Business or Pro plan supports it.
No. SmartWidget operates on monthly billing with no contract and no minimum commitment. Cancel any time directly from the dashboard with no notice period and no exit fee. The lowest tier is £19 per month, billed monthly, so the maximum risk on the decision is a single month's spend.
Live chat support inside the SmartWidget dashboard answers within minutes. The dashboard also contains a step-by-step Teachable-specific install guide with screenshots and the exact menu paths. If the install does not work, support will remote into a screenshare and complete it with you.
The widget includes a configurable consent notice that integrates with the major UK cookie banner solutions including OneTrust, Cookiebot, CookieYes, Iubenda, and the platform-native banners on Teachable where available. Consent state is respected — the widget does not initialise until consent has been granted on visitors in scope of UK GDPR.
The AI knowledge base is built from publicly accessible pages on your Teachable site. Content gated behind login is not included automatically. If your Teachable site has paid-content or member-only sections, the AI's knowledge will reflect only the public pages — which is typically what you want for visitor chat anyway.
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese are supported on the Growth tier and above. The widget detects the visitor's language from their first message and replies in the same language for the rest of the conversation. Particularly valuable for Teachable sites serving overseas customers or operating in tourism-driven markets.
The dashboard exposes filtering rules. You can block visitors by IP range, exclude conversation triggers on specific URLs of your Teachable site, restrict the widget to certain pages only, and configure honeypot-style anti-spam rules. The defaults are sensible for most Teachable businesses; the controls are there if you need them.
Conversation transcripts and visitor contact data are retained for 30 days after cancellation, then deleted permanently. Within that 30-day window you can export the full transcript archive and the contact database as CSV from the dashboard. The widget snippet on your Teachable site stops loading immediately on cancellation.
No. The widget loads asynchronously after the page has rendered. The bundle is under 30KB. There is no impact on Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, or First Input Delay. Lighthouse audit before and after the install on a Teachable site typically shows zero score change.
Yes. The dashboard supports WhatsApp Business API integration for escalations. When the AI flags a high-intent enquiry on your Teachable site, it can send you a WhatsApp message with the visitor's details and the conversation context. The integration runs on top of the standard email and SMS escalation options.
4.9 out of 5 from 199 reviews. A selection of install-experience reviews from real UK businesses.
My Format portfolio is built around lots of high-resolution images and very minimal text. SmartWidget did not slow the gallery load at all — it loads async and the widget bubble only renders once images are done.
My WordPress site uses a heavily customised theme. I worried the SmartWidget snippet might conflict. The Insert Headers and Footers plugin route kept everything isolated and the theme has not been touched.
We migrated to a new accounting firm site last spring. SmartWidget was the only chat tool that installed cleanly without breaking the theme. Five minutes from signup to live.
Our firm uses a Drupal site that an agency built nine years ago. I expected the install to be painful. The agency added the script tag in eleven minutes and the widget went live the same afternoon.
Our firm runs a heavily customised Webflow site. SmartWidget installs into the End of body tag custom code field — exactly where Webflow places all scripts. Zero animation conflicts.
My Framer site is mostly animation and the widget had to coexist with three other custom code blocks. SmartWidget installed cleanly without breaking any of the existing animations or transitions.
SmartWidget installs cleanly on every major platform in this category. Explore install guides for related platforms.
Sign up, paste the snippet, save. From £19 a month. No card to start.
