What is Botpress?
Botpress is an open-source conversational AI platform used to build, manage and extend chatbots and conversational agents. It provides a complete framework for designing, developing, training and deploying production-ready bots.
Some key features of Botpress include:
- Visual dialog editor - Build and visualize bot conversation flows through an intuitive graphical interface without needing to write code.
- Built-in NLU - Comes with a built-in natural language understanding module for intent recognition and entity extraction.
- Multi-channel - Supports building bots on messaging platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram, SMS and more.
- Custom code integration - Developers can write custom JS code and extend Botpress capabilities.
- On-prem or cloud options - Can be self-hosted on-prem or used as a managed cloud service.
- Chatbot analytics - Provides insights into bot usage patterns and helps improve bot performance.
- Open source - Actively maintained on GitHub by a large open source community.
Overall, Botpress aims to accelerate enterprise chatbot development through an open yet customizable AI-powered platform.