Daria Volkova
Practice · AI & Chatbots

Daria Volkova

AI Research Lead

Grounded AI assistants with retrieval that survives prod traffic.

Retrieval-Augmented GenerationTool-Call PipelinesVector Search (pgvector)OpenAI / Anthropic SDKsStreaming Inference

Daria leads Coralsoft's AI practice. She designs retrieval pipelines, tool registries, and streaming inference architectures for chatbots that have to be right — financial assistants for NRIs, real-estate intelligence over live Postgres, RAG over structured knowledge bases.

She has shipped Anar and ArgoFetch's AI surfaces and authors Coralsoft's chatbot tooling comparisons and AI engineering field notes.

Years in practice
7+
Practice area
AI & Chatbots
Published articles
5

Field notes by Daria

All articles
Coralsoft Journal Chatbots

Chatbot Software Development Company USA: What Businesses Need to Know

This guide covers what US businesses need to know when evaluating a chatbot software development company — from technical architecture to vendor selection criteria to total cost of ownership.

Daria VolkovaDaria Volkova
Jun 202513 min read
Coralsoft Journal Chatbots

Best Chatbot Development Software Compared (2026)

Generative AI has irrevocably disrupted the chatbot market: 78% of enterprise buyers now require native LLM orchestration as a baseline, not a differentiator. Agentic architectures are moving from beta to production.

Daria VolkovaDaria Volkova
Feb 18, 20267 min read
Coralsoft Journal Chatbots

Best AI Chatbot for Software Development Teams in 2026

This guide cuts through the noise. We cover the leading tools, what they're actually good at, where they fall short, and how to pick the right combination for your team's specific situation.

Daria VolkovaDaria Volkova
Jun 24, 202613 min read
Coralsoft Journal SaaS

How AI Is Transforming SaaS Platforms in 2026

This article breaks down exactly how AI is changing SaaS platforms in 2026: the specific transformation happening across product, infrastructure, pricing, and the customer relationship. And more importantly, what it means if you're building a SaaS product today.

Daria VolkovaDaria Volkova
Jun 24, 202612 min read
Coralsoft Journal Chatbots

ChatGPT Prompts for Chatbot Development Software

This article is a working guide to the prompts that matter most in chatbot development: what they need to accomplish, why naive versions fail, and what well-engineered versions look like across the key stages of building a production chatbot.

Daria VolkovaDaria Volkova
Jun 24, 202621 min read