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AL home page
AL home page (dark mode)

Inspiration

For a long time I have struggled to keep a budget; even when I know its value towards financial freedom. I am not alone in this, so I set out to find and build tools to help with getting better at finances in general (literacy, planning and management). AL, is a manifestation of my hope to get better at this and hopefully help others who find themselves struggling too.

What it does

AL connects to your various accounts; bank, mobile wallets, subscriptions, utility e.t.c and provides a voice/chat interface to manage amounts in and out of these accounts. That's the long term plan, for now the interaction is a little lacking but we will get there.

How we built it

The bot logic is built using Bot framework composer, leveraging Azure cognitive services for some intelligent handling of conversation. To interact with the bot, I built a website for AL which supports chat and voice (coming soon).

Challenges we ran into

Configuring bot framework composer to deploy bot logic to Azure took some doing.
Getting LUIS to help with nitty gritty dialog details proved challenging.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Deploying bot service on Azure
Building the website for AL

What we learned

To build a useful conversations bot, a majority of the time ought be spent in the design and testing. A low-code platform like bot framework composer helps with reasoning through the myriad of paths a conversation might take.