About

We built Fred because chatbots were getting businesses sued.

Not because AI is scary. Because ungoverned AI on your website is. When there’s no real guardrail and no single source of truth, the bot’s words become your words. Courts have said so. We built Fred for owners who need voice and chat that work, and legal that can sleep.

Why we exist.

The pattern was always the same. A chatbot stayed “fine” until someone asked the wrong question. A compliance paragraph in the prompt isn’t a guardrail. Training on the open web isn’t your truth. An airline learned that in court when its bot invented a refund policy and the judge held the airline to it.

So we built Fred in layers, governed, grounded, and secure, so operators could turn voice and chat on without betting the business on hope. Not another FAQ widget. An AI agent that shows up every time, already knows your business, and never says anything you wouldn’t.

Why “never out of line” isn’t marketing.

It’s not a tagline we A/B tested. It’s what has to be true before Fred speaks.

1
Governed

Rules enforced in code

Not wished for in a prompt. Boundaries are checked before and after the AI runs, every conversation, with a record of what was blocked and why. See the guardrail layers →

2
Grounded

Your content is the truth

Fred answers from your site and your uploads, not the internet. If it isn’t yours, Fred doesn’t say it.

3
Secure

Built for the rules that exist, and the ones coming

PII scrubbing, industry packs, regional privacy rules, scope discipline, audit trail. Regulation isn’t our enemy. It’s the floor. Prompt-and-pray is the cliff. Read the trust page →

Proof beats promises.

Talk to Fred.

What we believe.

Your website should talk back Your content is the truth Prompts are not guardrails Regulated is a feature, not a bug You own your keys, your data, your stack Proof beats promises

We’re Talk to Fred LLC, operators who have seen what happens when bots have no guardrails and no source of truth. Fred runs on this site. Dogfooding isn’t a slide in our deck, it’s the widget in the corner of this page.

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We’d rather show you how Fred is built.

If you’re evaluating AI for a regulated or high-stakes business, you’ve already felt the risk. Ask Fred the hard question right now, it’s in the corner of this page.