CodeBaby

CodeBaby makes real-time conversational avatars that sit inside websites and apps, answering questions, guiding navigation and completing tasks by voice or text. It serves education, healthcare, retail, hospitality and customer service, with self-serve avatar creation, a managed build option and a hologram device for events.

CodeBaby builds real-time interactive avatars that live inside a website or application and hold spoken conversations with the people using it. Instead of a text box in the corner, visitors meet a character that can answer questions, walk them through a process and act on what they hear. The company positions the product as ethical conversational AI for education, healthcare, customer service, retail, hospitality and live events, and it ships both a self-service avatar builder and a fully managed deployment for organizations that want CodeBaby's team to handle the build. The mechanics follow a familiar pattern for anyone who has worked with a site chatbot. An avatar is configured with a persona, a voice and a knowledge source, then embedded so it can respond by speech and text. CodeBaby's own material describes avatars that tie into site navigation and existing systems, and the FAQ addresses model choice, speech-to-text and text-to-speech engines, local hosting and multi-language support, which suggests deployments are scoped per client rather than sold as one fixed configuration. The public record includes avatars for a CBS reality series, a literacy program that had fourth graders designing their own characters, and a rural healthcare partnership in the Dominican Republic where the avatar collects patient intake information. Buyers fall into two groups. The first needs a training or onboarding tutor that turns static material into a role-play exercise, and CodeBaby's published examples lean heavily on that use case. The second needs a front-line assistant on a public site or a trade show booth, where the appeal is a face and a voice rather than a menu. Among alternatives, most chatbot builders stop at text and leave the character work to a separate vendor. CodeBaby's differentiator is the combination of the avatar layer, hologram hardware through the Proto device, and an option to hand the whole project to a managed team. The trade-off is transparency: this is a sales-led product, and the homepage publishes no rates.