diff --git a/libs/langchain/langchain/chains/conversational_retrieval/base.py b/libs/langchain/langchain/chains/conversational_retrieval/base.py
index 0b15f4e41c9..147610f9764 100644
--- a/libs/langchain/langchain/chains/conversational_retrieval/base.py
+++ b/libs/langchain/langchain/chains/conversational_retrieval/base.py
@@ -4,16 +4,19 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import inspect
 import warnings
 from abc import abstractmethod
+from operator import itemgetter
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Type, Union
 
+from langchain_core.beta.runnables.context import Context
 from langchain_core.documents import Document
 from langchain_core.language_models import BaseLanguageModel
 from langchain_core.messages import BaseMessage
 from langchain_core.prompts import BasePromptTemplate
 from langchain_core.pydantic_v1 import BaseModel, Extra, Field, root_validator
 from langchain_core.retrievers import BaseRetriever
-from langchain_core.runnables.config import RunnableConfig
+from langchain_core.runnables import Runnable, RunnableConfig
+from langchain_core.runnables.base import RunnableMap
 from langchain_core.vectorstores import VectorStore
 
 from langchain.callbacks.manager import (
@@ -21,7 +24,7 @@ from langchain.callbacks.manager import (
     CallbackManagerForChainRun,
     Callbacks,
 )
-from langchain.chains.base import Chain
+from langchain.chains.base import RunnableChain
 from langchain.chains.combine_documents.base import BaseCombineDocumentsChain
 from langchain.chains.combine_documents.stuff import StuffDocumentsChain
 from langchain.chains.conversational_retrieval.prompts import CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT
@@ -63,7 +66,7 @@ class InputType(BaseModel):
     """The chat history to use for retrieval."""
 
 
-class BaseConversationalRetrievalChain(Chain):
+class BaseConversationalRetrievalChain(RunnableChain):
     """Chain for chatting with an index."""
 
     combine_docs_chain: BaseCombineDocumentsChain
@@ -289,6 +292,51 @@ class ConversationalRetrievalChain(BaseConversationalRetrievalChain):
     """If set, enforces that the documents returned are less than this limit.
     This is only enforced if `combine_docs_chain` is of type StuffDocumentsChain."""
 
+    def as_runnable(self) -> Runnable:
+        context = Context.create_scope("conversational_retrieval")
+        get_chat_history = self.get_chat_history or _get_chat_history
+
+        def get_new_question(inputs: Dict[str, Any]):
+            return (
+                self.question_generator
+                if inputs["chat_history"]
+                else inputs["question"]
+            )
+
+        def get_answer(inputs: Dict[str, Any]):
+            return (
+                self.response_if_no_docs_found
+                if self.response_if_no_docs_found is not None
+                and len(inputs["input_documents"]) == 0
+                else self.combine_docs_chain
+            )
+
+        return (
+            RunnableMap(
+                question=itemgetter("question") | context.setter("question"),
+                chat_history=itemgetter("chat_history")
+                | get_chat_history
+                | context.setter("chat_history"),
+            )
+            | get_new_question
+            | context.setter("new_question")
+            | self.retriever
+            | self._reduce_tokens_below_limit
+            | context.setter("input_documents")
+            | {
+                "input_documents": context.getter("input_documents"),
+                "chat_history": context.getter("chat_history"),
+                "question": context.getter(
+                    "new_question" if self.rephrase_question else "question"
+                ),
+            }
+            | {
+                self.output_key: get_answer,
+                "source_documents": context.getter("input_documents"),
+                "generated_question": context.getter("new_question"),
+            }
+        )
+
     def _reduce_tokens_below_limit(self, docs: List[Document]) -> List[Document]:
         num_docs = len(docs)
 
@@ -400,6 +448,9 @@ class ChatVectorDBChain(BaseConversationalRetrievalChain):
     top_k_docs_for_context: int = 4
     search_kwargs: dict = Field(default_factory=dict)
 
+    def as_runnable(self) -> Runnable:
+        return self
+
     @property
     def _chain_type(self) -> str:
         return "chat-vector-db"