6.5% more residents since 2021
Growth of 6.5% since 2021 has brought Exeter thousands of new residents. Each one is a customer who has not yet picked a favourite local business.
An AI agent trained on your business answers Exeter customers on your website and WhatsApp in seconds, in the language they write in, and hands anything sensitive to your team.
Example Home Store
Website chat
Customer wrote in English, so ChatFlow answered in English.
Home to 137,894 people at the mid-2025 estimate, up 6.5% since 2021, Exeter is a council area in South West, England. Its 5,960 business units are led by retail, wholesale and motor trade (17.2%), professional, scientific and technical services (13.9%) and construction (12.2%). 7.8% of residents have a main language other than English, most often Polish and Romanian.
Drawn from the latest ONS and Census figures for Exeter, with what ChatFlow does about each.
Growth of 6.5% since 2021 has brought Exeter thousands of new residents. Each one is a customer who has not yet picked a favourite local business.
Exeter has a higher share of health and social care businesses than the UK as a whole (7.4% against 5.6%), and patients and families look for answers in the evening, when reception is closed.
Exeter has 5,960 business units (ONS, 2026), most of them small. An AI agent answers first so the team can reply to the conversations that need a person.
1,025 of Exeter's business units are in retail, wholesale and motor trade, 17.2% of all local businesses. Answer stock, delivery and returns questions instantly and catch shoppers who would otherwise leave for a competitor.
No developers, no contracts, no call center to hire.
Add your website address and upload any menus, price lists or policies. ChatFlow learns from them in minutes.
Ask it the questions your customers ask. Adjust anything in plain English until every answer sounds like you.
Paste one line of code on your site and connect WhatsApp. Your team takes over any conversation whenever they want.
An AI agent trained on your website, documents and FAQs answers customer questions instantly and hands anything sensitive to your team with the full conversation attached.
Included in GrowthOne line of code adds a chat widget to WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow or any custom site. The AI answers first and your staff can take over the same chat live.
Included in GrowthSync connects to your Outlook or Gmail inbox, drafts replies from your knowledge base, auto-sends the confident ones and queues the rest for your review.
Enabled per account on requestConnect your WhatsApp Business number and the same AI agent answers there, with Facebook Messenger and Instagram available on Growth.
Included in Growth17.2% of local businesses
Tell shoppers what is in stock, when it will arrive and how returns work, before they give up and buy elsewhere.
13.9% of local businesses
Explain fees, timelines and what you need from new clients, so your team only speaks to serious prospects.
12.2% of local businesses
Capture quote requests at any hour, answer service-area questions and pass ready-to-price jobs to your estimator.
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Local figures: ONS mid-year population estimates, mid-2025; ONS UK Business Counts 2026, local units; Census 2021 (England and Wales), main language, ONS. Conversations shown are illustrative examples.