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What is a Digital Representative?

Digital Representatives · 2026-06-11

A Digital Representative is the public-facing expression of a business’s approved digital knowledge. It may appear as an assistant, profile, answer page or another conversational interface, but it should speak from the same maintained Business Brain. The idea is not to create a fictional spokesperson that improvises about the company. It is to give customers and AI systems a clearer route into information the business has chosen to publish.

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Natural follow-up · ClarifyHow is a Digital Representative different from the Business Brain?

The Business Brain is the knowledge. The Digital Representative is one way that knowledge is presented. A simple analogy is staff training: the training material is not the employee, but it helps the employee answer consistently. In the OTC architecture, the same approved facts and Q&A can support a…

Natural follow-up · ComparisonWhy put an AI assistant on a Digital Twin if the public knowledge pages matter more?

Because people still value conversation. The assistant turns a large knowledge base into an immediate question-and-answer experience and demonstrates how the structured knowledge can be used. It is also a useful source of new questions: real conversations reveal what people still cannot find or unde…

Natural follow-up · ImplementationCan the same business knowledge power multiple AI interfaces?

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Natural follow-up · LimitationsWhat stops a Digital Representative from making things up?

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