Real-time avatar platform for the mass market
The affordable face of the agentic web.
As AI agents become standard, human-like interfaces are next.
Captivation makes them affordable at scale
Give AI a face. Bring every conversation to life.
Captivation AI brings chatbots and AI agents to life with real-time speaking avatars, expressive personalities and synchronised visual content.
Our patent-pending technology renders avatars directly in the user’s browser, making them fast, scalable and dramatically more affordable than traditional compute-heavy solutions.
Choose Captivation Inside to add a face and voice to your own chatbot or AI agent, or deploy our complete SuperAgent solutions for ecommerce and other customer-facing applications.
The face and voice of the agentic web.
A different way to bring AI to life
Text alone was never built for conversation.
Captivation gives AI a face, a voice and real gestures, while intelligently bringing products, images, video, graphics and other rich media into the conversation.
The result is AI that feels more natural, visual and engaging, not just another text box.
Human connection, at a price every business can afford.
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Rendered directly in the user’s browser, rather than continuously generating and streaming video from a server. Captivation uses pre-created visual assets and lightweight real-time instructions to bring the character to life.
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Built to respond quickly, with communication starting in under 150ms. The character can react immediately while a fuller AI response is still being prepared, helping conversations feel more natural.
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A lighter way to deliver real-time digital humans. By reducing the need for continuous server-side video generation, Captivation can cost up to 90% less than server-streamed avatar alternatives.
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Less compute. Less bandwidth. Instead of continuously generating and transmitting live video, Captivation sends lightweight instructions and reuses media already loaded in the browser.
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More than a talking head. Captivation can combine voice with gestures, facial expressions, movement and personality, giving the AI more ways to communicate naturally.
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Bring Captivation into the digital experience you already have. Embed it into your existing site, connect it to your own AI and data, or integrate through APIs, MCP and custom connections.
instruction set and tiny media files from our platform.
Modest differentiation between vendors
Why Cost Matters
Great technology only matters if you can afford to use it at scale.
Traditional real-time avatars can require significant server-side compute, making every minute of conversation expensive.
Captivation’s browser-rendered approach dramatically reduces that cost, making expressive speaking avatars practical for thousands, or millions, of customer interactions.
Because the future of conversational AI shouldn’t just be engaging.
It needs to be affordable.
Why Speed Matters
Great conversations don’t have awkward pauses.
Even small delays can make an AI interaction feel unnatural. Captivation is engineered for near-instant responses, keeping conversations flowing and users engaged.
With average response times of just 300–400ms, our avatars can react at the speed people expect from a real conversation.
Because the less time users spend waiting, the more time they spend engaging.
Why Gestures Matter
More than just a talking face.
Great communication is about more than words. We use gestures, expressions and body language to add meaning, emotion and emphasis. AI should too.
Captivation’s approach enables a richer range of natural, contextual gestures without the heavy processing overhead of generating them on the fly.
Because AI shouldn’t just speak. It should communicate.
Two ways to use Captivation
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Captivation Inside
Already have the AI?
Keep your existing chatbot, agent or LLM and add a speaking Captivation Avatar with voice, lip sync, gestures and expression.
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Captivation Solutions
Want the complete SuperAgent?
We provide the AI, Avatar, voice, knowledge and actions, ready to add to your website or ecommerce store.
"One day, every business will have an online face and voice.
We're building that future today."
CEO and Founder Gareth Hughes
General FAQs
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Captivation AI brings chatbots and AI agents to life with real-time speaking Avatars. Our technology combines voice, lip sync, gestures, expressions and synchronised visual content to create a more natural and engaging alternative to traditional text-only AI.
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A SuperAgent combines conversational AI with a speaking Avatar, voice, business knowledge, rich media and the ability to take action. It can answer questions, recommend products, show images and video, add products to a basket, arrange meetings or hand a conversation over to a human when needed.
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Most real-time Avatar platforms continuously generate video on a server and stream it to the user. Captivation uses a different approach: lightweight instructions are sent to the browser, where the Avatar is rendered locally. This reduces compute and bandwidth requirements and allows Captivation to deliver faster connections, expressive gestures and costs that can be up to 90% lower than conventional real-time video Avatar services.
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Captivation can be used by businesses, developers and AI vendors. Developers can use Captivation Inside to add a face and voice to an existing chatbot or AI agent, while businesses can deploy complete SuperAgent solutions for ecommerce, sales, support and other customer-facing applications.
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No. Captivation Inside is designed to work with your existing chatbot, LLM, AI agent, tools and workflows. Your AI continues to generate the intelligence and responses; Captivation turns those responses into an expressive visual and spoken experience.
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Yes. Captivation offers a free Captivation Inside developer trial with credits for about 30 to 40 minutes of conversation, subject to availability. Shopify stores can also request a free SuperAgent trial with credits for 50 customer conversations.