Case study

53% of instrument chats
come in after hours

Skladmuzyczny is a specialist music store from Kraków, selling musical instruments, pro audio and DJ gear online and from its own shop in the city. Alongside the catalogue it runs an instrument rental service and a guitar and amplifier repair workshop, so shoppers come to it for advice as much as for products – from a child's first flute to a stage-ready electric guitar.

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Industry

Music & Instruments

Scale

Online store + physical shop in Kraków

Range

Instruments, pro audio & DJ gear

Integrations

SOTESHOP

Results

Key results for a specialist music store

Measured in AskSpot over eight months of chat on skladmuzyczny.pl. Skladmuzyczny is a specialist shop, so most conversations are advice – which guitar, which amp, which ukulele to start on. The AI advisor carries them: it recommends real products from the catalogue, earns the click, and settles most chats on its own – including the half that arrive once the shop has closed.

60%

of chats resolved with no human

40%

of chats show products from the catalogue

50%

of shown products get clicked

53%

of chats come in after hours

“First and foremost, it relieves the store staff from constantly answering the same, trivial questions. As a result, when a customer genuinely needs help, they are immediately directed to a team that has the time, energy, and ability to assist them properly. … People frequently ask the same questions in similar ways, such as whether the store is open or if guitars have strings. For such questions, this chat is ideal.”

Rafał Majewski

★★★★★

Rafał Majewski

CEO, Skladmuzyczny

Before AskSpot

A specialist purchase starts with advice, not a product

Buying an instrument rarely starts with a specific product. A beginner wants a first guitar and an amp to go with it, a parent is choosing a child’s ukulele, a player is weighing one classical model against another. The right answer depends on level, budget, playing style and what pairs with what – so a category page or a spec sheet on its own often isn’t enough to decide.

Skladmuzyczny has real expertise behind the counter – it rents instruments and runs a guitar and amplifier workshop – but that expertise used to be reachable only while the shop was open, by phone or in person in Kraków. Evenings and weekends, when a lot of players actually browse, the questions went unanswered.

AskSpot brings that advice into the storefront. The AI chat helps a shopper choose the right instrument for their level and budget, answers spec and fit questions, points to the exact accessory for a given model, and does it around the clock – which matters here, because more than half of the questions arrive after the shop has closed.

What decides the sale

the right advice

Where the answers lived

phone & in-store

When shoppers ask

53% after hours

Help after closing

none

Rollout

How Skladmuzyczny rolled out AI chat

One module, set up the way people actually shop for gear: understand what they want to play, get the specs and the accessories right, then handle stock and the Kraków store honestly – grounded in the shop’s own catalogue and buyer guides, not a generic product list.

AI Chat Agent

Step 01

Catalogue & buyer-guide grounding

Real recommendations, not a category page

The SOTESHOP catalogue was grounded together with Skladmuzyczny’s own buyer guides – which starter set, which ukulele to begin on, which strings – so an open question like “I’m after a starter set, an electric guitar and an amp” gets a concrete, matched recommendation instead of a listing.

What shoppers ask

  • I’m after a starter set – an electric guitar and an amp
  • A superstrat for metal, ideally with a Floyd Rose
  • Which ukulele should I get to start?

AI Chat Agent

Step 02

Specs, fit & accessories

Neck widths, dimensions and the exact matching part

The Agent was taught the detail questions a specialist buyer asks – neck width at the nut, a case’s inner and outer dimensions, how two classical models differ – and to match an accessory to a specific instrument, like the right power cable for a Fender Champion 20.

What shoppers ask

  • What’s the difference between the Alhambra 3C and 3CA?
  • What are the inner and outer dimensions of this case?
  • A power cable for a Fender Champion 20

AI Chat Agent

Step 03

Honest stock & the Kraków store

A straight answer on availability, online or in person

When a specific model isn’t in the catalogue or isn’t in stock, the Agent says so plainly and offers an in-stock alternative rather than inventing a restock date – and, for a Kraków shopper, it points to collecting in the physical store.

What shoppers ask

  • Is the Ohana CK-180M coming back in stock?
  • Can I collect this in the Kraków store?
  • Is this model available at this price?

Measured in AskSpot

Always on, across eight months of chat

8.1

messages per conversation

23%

of chats come in at the weekend

92%

of chats are pre-sale advice

800+

products surfaced from the catalogue

From real conversations

What Skladmuzyczny shoppers actually ask

Almost every chat is a shopper looking for advice: which guitar to start on, which amp goes with it, which ukulele for a child, how one model differs from another. Product advice leads by a wide margin, then specs and fit, then availability – a specialist purchase, where a category page rarely settles it. This is the shop-floor expertise brought online, at any hour.

Product advice & fit37.2%
Specs & features33.5%
Availability & stock24.8%
Accessories & spare parts8.9%
Store & in-person contact7.0%
Delivery, payment & purchase5.6%
After-sales (warranty, returns)1.3%

Based on tagged conversations across eight months · about 8 messages each · 53% arriving after hours. A conversation can carry several topics, so the shares add up to more than 100%.

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