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*Image taken from: https://thelightphone.squarespace.com/faq*

What is the Light Phone?

The Light Phone is the antithesis to the smartphone. There are no social media apps, email clients, or news outlets accessible on it. Not even a web browser.

It’s what cell phones used to be. A device you used to call or text someone, not spend hours of screen time on. There are good reasons to step away from our phones and that is where The Light Phone comes in, you can pop in your sim card for the weekend and unwind. Away from the constant notifications and influx of information. Social media detox has been a buzzword for a while and that’s what this is. The primary functions of a phone plus a few essential apps like maps, music, alarm clock, calculator, etc.

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Screenshot of the homepage for The Light Phone: https://www.thelightphone.com

Why a chatbot?

Taking a look at their website, their artistic and thoughtful approach is apparent. This attention to detail carries to the navigation bar for the website. Which is styled like the Light Phone OS (LightOS). Their FAQ page already has all the information you need on the phone. All social media questions are answered by their team, however, the site is missing a chatbot.

A chatbot engages the customer and makes it easy for the customer to get their questions answered or to guide a sale, book a meeting, etc. In the case of The Light Phone, they have a small team so it is not very useful to make a chatbot based around live chat support. Instead, we can automate a chatbot that starts a conversation with the customer on the home page and guides them to purchase. Applying conversational marketing to their site like this helps generate revenue.

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Screenshot of the file I used to organize the script.

How I built the chatbot