$1 trillion. That's how much the US stock market lost in one single day when DeepSeek entered the AI market with its new model.

DeepSeek has everyone in the tech world talking. It proved that high-performance AI models can be developed with limited computing, challenging giants like Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet. In fact, Nvidia's market value dropped by $600 billion in just one day.

DeepSeek's advanced yet cost-effective AI models are a big step forward. By using them to build AI agents for your business, you can gain a competitive edge. Keep reading to learn how DeepSeek-powered AI agents can boost your sales and how to build one.

What's DeepSeek, and why is everyone talking about it?

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company that develops large language models. It stunned the world with its claim to build AI models in just two months for less than $6 million. (That’s a fraction of the $100 million it took to train OpenAI's GPT-4.)

DeepSeek's R1 model excels at reasoning tasks like coding or solving math, while the V3 model is perfect for general applications like language translation or conversational AI. What makes these models stand out is their ability to match the performance of their rivals like OpenAI o1 or Claude 3.5 Sonnet, while being open-source and far more cost-effective.

DeepSeek V3 is a 671B parameter MOE model that is both capable and efficient. Even Apple’s CEO Tim Cook described DeepSeek as an “innovation that drives efficiency.” Let's understand how you can use this model to build AI solutions for your business and boost growth.

How a DeepSeek-powered AI agent can boost sales

DeepSeek is taking us closer to smart, intuitive, and cost-effective AI agents. Here are some amazing benefits of using a DeepSeek-powered AI sales agent for your business:

1. Delivers fast and accurate responses

DeepSeek claims its V3 model has achieved a breakthrough in inference speed. This means the model generates instant responses to reduce the wait times for users.

At the same time, DeepSeek V3 was trained on 14.8 billion high-quality tokens. This enables the model to better understand a query, simplify complex ideas, and prioritize key points to be concise. This way, the model delivers accurate and to-the-point responses.

So, whether your website visitors want to know about product features, discounts, or payment methods, the AI agent responds instantly. Chatsimple’s AI agent even supports your website visitors through human-like voice responses, making the interaction more natural.

2. Understands needs before responding

DeepSeek V3, based on the transformer architecture, uses a multi-head attention mechanism to understand the context and intent of queries. It can process multiple parts of the input simultaneously and analyze relationships between words in a sentence to interpret its meaning.

This way, an AI agent powered by DeepSeek V3 can understand the needs of each website visitor and provide natural and relevant responses. It can suggest case studies, videos, or blog posts to help visitors find what they need. The AI agent can also make personalized product recommendations that lead to more conversions.

3. Qualifies leads and updates your CRM

With its advanced natural language processing, a DeepSeek V3-powered AI agent can ask a series of lead qualification questions. These questions can be about the visitor’s name, email, company, challenges, budget, timeline, or decision-making process.

The AI agent saves all the collected answers directly to your CRM. It creates new leads, fills custom fields, and logs the entire conversation. This way, your sales team gets a steady stream of qualified leads on one platform without manual data entry.

4. Promotes your products like a salesperson

DeepSeek-powered AI agents are like proactive sales assistants. They promote your products in a clear and compelling way to increase awareness and conversions. They can also handle sales objections, address concerns, build trust, and increase your chances of closing a deal.

AI agents also integrate with Calendly, allowing visitors to book meetings and schedule demos instantly. This helps you get more qualified sales meetings and accelerate your sales process.

5. Helps you save costs

DeepSeek V3 uses the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture to activate only 37 billion parameters out of a total of 671 billion parameters for each token. This makes the model efficient and cost-effective.

That’s why, DeepSeek-powered AI agents have low operating costs. For instance, Chatsimple lets you build an AI agent with responses costing just one credit—80% cheaper than GPT-4o-powered AI agents. This way, you can engage more visitors 24/7 and deliver personalized experiences without hiring more staff.

How to build a DeepSeek-powered AI sales agent

With no-code platforms like Chatsimple, you can create a smart DeepSeek V3-powered AI agent for sales in just five minutes without any technical knowledge. Just follow these four steps. (If you already use Chatsimple, skip to the fourth step.)

1. Train the agent

Your AI agent should know everything a salesperson should know. So, upload all the data about your product, pricing, policies, FAQs, etc. How to do that? Just log in to Chatsimple, go to the Training Materials tab, and add your website URL, sitemap, documents, or text containing the above data. The agent will extract all the information and use it to respond to customers.

2. Add sales skills

Time to teach your AI agent some sales skills like qualifying leads or booking sales meetings. Luckily, the agent can learn within seconds. Here's how you can do it with Chatsimple:

AI voice support: On the Voice AI tab, turn on the voice feature, define the call goal, and select how the agent speaks and engages visitors.

Answering FAQs: On the Questions and Answers tab, add all the common questions your customers ask with the most suitable answers.

Lead qualification: On the Qualify Leads tab, add the set of questions that the agent will ask visitors to identify high-quality leads for your business.

Booking meetings: On the Business Goals tab, select Schedule a Meeting, add your Calendly link, and define when the agent will ask visitors to book a meeting.

3. Customize the agent

You don't want to build an AI agent with DeepSeek V3 that doesn’t appear as a part of your brand. It must be consistent with your brand. That’s why Chatsimple provides numerous customization options like:

• On the Voice AI tab, you can select the agent’s voice, welcome message, etc.
• On the Appearance tab, you can customize the agent’s name, avatar, background color, sound effects, etc.
• On the Advanced tab, you can write a prompt to define the agent's role and personality (funny, professional, friendly).

4. Select the DeepSeek V3 model

This is where the magic happens. Go to the Advanced tab and click on Select AI Model. This will show a dropdown list of several advanced AI models like DeepSeek V3, GPT o1-mini, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Llama 3.1, etc. All these models have different speeds, accuracy, and message credits per text. Choose DeepSeek V3 to make your AI agent smart and capable with just one message credit per text.

That’s it. You can deploy the agent to your website by simply adding a code snippet. Now the agent will work 24/7 to attract more leads and increase customer lifetime value at a fraction of the cost. To try Chatsimple’s DeepSeek V3-powered AI sales agent, sign up for a free trial.