A platform to create chatbots for constituent engagement

• 📄 Documents: upload documents to give GPT more context
• 🖊️ Forms: collect user data seamlessly through natural, conversational forms
• 💬 Slack integration: get notified when forms are submitted
• 📊 Analytics: access insights on chatbot usage and user engagement

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This projects requires

• Node v18+
• pnpm: Please follow the pnpm installation guide to install it
• Docker

After cloning the repository, run

pnpm i 

Create a .env file with the following:

DATABASE_URL=postgres:https://user:password@localhost:2430/civicconnect_db
OPENAI_API_KEY=

The database URL postgres:https://user:password@localhost:2430/civicconnect_db is the local development database created in a Docker volume.

Create an OpenAI API key at platform.openai.com/api-keys.

To setup the local database and add seed data, run

pnpm db:reset  # warning: this will delete all data in the local database

This commands runs

• pnpm db:down: deletes the database
• pnpm db:up: sets up the database
• pnpm db:seed: runs the seed script to populate the database with sample data

To start the development server, run

pnpm dev

• Nextjs: make sure you are looking at the docs for the "App Router"
• LangChain: we're using the JS library
  • LangChain Prisma integration
• Prisma: see prisma/schema.prisma for the Postgres DB schema
• TailwindCSS
• ShadcnUI: this UI library takes care of a lot of the difficult stuff for us, like complex components (dropdowns, autocomplete, etc) and accessibility

If you have any questions about the project, please contact Parth Kabra ([email protected]).

The videos are for a chatbot "Moulton Bot" created for Congressman Seth Moulton's office.

• Project pitch deck
• Slack group
• Project plan document

Group members:

• Ala’a Tamam
• Isha Chadalavada
• Rohit Kaushik
• Parth Kabra
• Arjun Bhat

Under the advisement of Prof. Beth Noveck, Prof. Dan Jackson, Marci Harris and the PopVox foundation.