Today we are announcing that Botkit can now be used to create conversational apps and AI-powered agents for the web, without any external messaging platforms, using Botkit Anywhere. — We have a vision of a conversational software future where people will interact naturally with connected services of all types. It isn’t about the narrow field of “enterprise bots.” …

For the first time, we are offering bot makers a fully integrated set of tools for designing, building, launching and measuring their bot. — Today’s launch includes our multi-platform conversational content management system, a brand new and expanded set of analytics tools including custom dashboards, user segmenting, conversation path analysis, and retention reports, and a deep integration with everyone’s new favorite hosting platform Glitch!

Today, we’re announcing full support for Microsoft Teams in Botkit, bringing the most comprehensive and widely adopted suite of bot development tools to this exciting enterprise platform. Botkit already powers tens-of-thousands of bots and custom integrations. Our thriving open source library recently welcomed its 150th code contributor, and our community…

Howdy is acquiring Botmetrics, an analytics service and CRM tool that works with apps built for Slack, Facebook, Kik and Google Home — Our goal at Howdy is to provide the best experience and tools for designing, developing and operating conversational software. …

We are excited to announce that Botkit Studio, our premium IDE for building and managing Botkit bots, now adds Cisco Spark to our list of supported platforms! The new Botkit Studio functionality opens up a whole new set of tools to developers making bots for Cisco Spark, including content management…

Botkit Studio now come with Microsoft’s AI built-in! — Today, we’re launching a new integration between Botkit Studio and Microsoft LUIS. With this integration enabled, developers can seamlessly use LUIS’ natural language processing service in their bot and in the bot building tools provided by Botkit. Try it now > Natural language processing is an important component of the…

A common pattern in bots is collecting information by asking a series of questions, then storing the answers in a user’s profile. This might happen during interactions like the on-boarding of a new bot app, or as part of a profile creation experience when joining a new Slack team. In…

One of the super useful things a bot can do is quickly look up information for a user, and send the results as a response. Imagine if you had a bot that could look up bug reports for you, or a bot that can check the status of orders for…

We are excited to launch our support of Slack’s latest product, Slack Enterprise Grid, which brings the power of Slack to organizations of any shape or size. The latest version of our open source development tool is ready today with seamless, full support for this exciting new environment for bots…