hey Gang, long time...my apologies, but life was turned upside down last year when my wife moved to another island for a big promotion. Now it's my turn: a few months back I became the Director of Information Technologies for a holding company of 30 companies! So, I've been really busy since late May...:) Also, in the meantime, we finally launched our AskSpot tool, branded under Ask Aruba, with our island's chamber of commerce. It took a lot longer because unbeknownst to me, they were building a brand new website that just launched, with our chatbot!! https://www.arubachamber.com/ I just got word that our local Post Office is also now finally ready to "go live", so our 2nd chatbot should be live in the coming couple of weeks! I'll let you know when we go live... Hope everyone is having tons of successes! Greetings from way down south! Ross

Hey guys! In this Live Help session, we built an AI-powered Applicant Screener... perfect for hiring teams who want to skip resume reviews and get straight to the best candidates. Here’s what it does: - Collects structured applicant info (no resume required) - Scores each candidate 1–5 based on fit - Sends a private pass/fail result via webhook to your recruiting team Here’s what we covered in this build: - 00:00 – Intro: Why we’re building an AI screener for high-volume roles - 01:28 – Creating the IntelliForm and adding applicant inputs - 03:33 – Collecting key experience and qualification data - 06:14 – Setting up the AI prompt for scoring applicants - 09:07 – Testing different applicant responses + webhook setup

Hey AskSpot community! For today's Live Help Session, we built something super practical and highly valuable for real estate pros, loan officers, and anyone working in financial services. We created a Mortgage Calculator Chatbot that lets users enter their loan amount, interest rate, and term, and get an instant monthly payment estimate using a real-time API. Built with AskSpot, this chatbot: - Handles live mortgage calculations - Works great as a lead magnet or value-add for clients - Can be embedded on websites or shared as a standalone tool - Takes just minutes to set up and brand as your own Watch the full replay below!

I've added live search to my AI Concierge bot that uses Perplexity via AI Tools. It still needs some tweaks but overall it does a pretty good job... AI Tools is such a freakin awesome new feature. For Phase 1 of this project I used a collection of tools to research places to eat and do in order to create a knowledge base document. This took effort and time to pull together. Now the bot just has one resource document which are FAQs about the property such as wifi, building access etc..etc... any local service searches are now done using the Perplexity AI Tool based on the property address. Feel free to have a play - https://bot.askbobster.ai/share-spotlight/68b7d9a0f050fc26a7c05d2e?embed=true

Following the introduction of the Canvas option I've been playing around with it to help create cartoon scripts. I was already doing this in ChatGPT so I took the templates I'd created there and added them as part of the knowledge base in Askspot so it would understand the context. This was necessary since the knowledge that ChatGPT has acquired doesn't transfer to the Askspot bot even though you are using the same language model. I then took the script created by the bot back into ChatGPT as the bot doesn't have the capability to create the images. Below are a couple of examples. I'm looking to refine it as a fun 'Prospecting tool'. Let me know what you think, warts and all.