3.1 – Adding GPTs To Your Website With Botpress (Part 1) Lesson

Lesson Overview

Adding a custom GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) to your website means anyone—not just you—can interact with your AI tools through a familiar chat interface. In modern business and service contexts, placing AI-powered bots directly on your site increases accessibility and value, whether for team knowledge, customer support, or automating frequently answered questions. This lesson teaches you to use Botpress, a user-friendly platform requiring no programming skills, to accomplish this.

The focus here is on connecting a GPT you’ve already built (like the Skill Leap Company Policy chatbot) to Botpress using a browser extension. You’ll discover how Botpress can host your chatbot with minimal technical setup. The process relies on a Chrome extension that bridges ChatGPT with Botpress, streamlining the connection. Part of the workflow involves managing OpenAI developer accounts and credits—a key step for moving your chatbot outside the ChatGPT environment.

This lesson is ideal for users who want to make their GPT tools more widely available but might not have a web development background. Whether providing internal resources or outward-facing AI help, the knowledge here supports a variety of business, education, and service scenarios.

Who This Is For

If you want to add custom AI chatbots to your business or project website without advanced technical skills, this lesson is built for you. You’ll benefit especially if you are:

• Entrepreneurs wanting to share company tools, FAQs, or resources via chat
• Small business owners enhancing customer interaction online
• Educators seeking ways to offer AI-powered learning aids on a site
• Project managers providing internal knowledge bases to teams
• Content creators or consultants looking to boost engagement with personal AI bots

Where This Fits in a Workflow

Connecting your custom GPT to your website through Botpress sits between creating your AI model in ChatGPT and actually customizing the website experience for your users. After refining and testing your GPT, this step moves your tool from development to public availability.

For example, if you have a company policy chatbot trained on internal documents, this lesson shows how to securely share it with employees online. Or, if you’re running a support desk, you can make a FAQ chatbot publicly accessible. This workflow ensures your AI is not only functional but reaches the intended audience, supporting daily operations and customer needs.

Technical & Workflow Benefits

The traditional way to share a custom GPT—sending links or giving users direct access to ChatGPT—limits control and reach. With Botpress, you embed your chatbot directly on your website, centralizing interactions in one familiar place. This approach is also flexible: you don’t need a developer or custom code.

Key benefits include saving time during setup, reducing the need for ongoing technical support, and enhancing the user experience by keeping visitors on your branded site. For light-to-medium complexity bots, Botpress provides responsive chat and easy customization (such as changing interface colors). It is especially effective for internal tools or customer-facing helpers with smaller knowledge bases, offering efficiency and professionalism over manual processes.

Practice Exercise

To reinforce this lesson:

1. Choose one of your custom GPTs previously created—ideally one with a manageable (not overly large) knowledge base, such as a policy or FAQ bot.
2. Use a test website or a private page on your business site. Set up your free Botpress account, install the Chrome extension, and go through the connection steps, following the video as support.
3. Once connected, visit the private bot URL provided by Botpress. Ask your chatbot three questions based on your uploaded documents and note how quickly and accurately it responds.

Reflection: How does the bot’s speed and accuracy through Botpress compare to direct use inside ChatGPT? Is response time or knowledge retention affected?

Course Context Recap

This lesson transitions you from simply building GPTs to making them usable tools for others through website integration. You’ve moved beyond the basics of model creation, opening up real-world access and interaction opportunities. Previously, you learned to structure and refine your GPTs; next, you will further customize their look and feel—and learn to embed them directly into your website pages. Continue in the course to unlock full control of your custom AI’s appearance and delivery. Explore more lessons to maximize how you use AI for your entrepreneurial goals.