How I built and launched a personal finance chatbot in 6 months

GUEST: This is a write-up covering the development of my startup, Teller, and the launch of our first pilot program with Brooklyn Cooperative.
Although I don’t love the name “chatbot,” it is the easiest way to refer to a conversational messaging agent. There are several different levels of chatbots, from simple fraud alert messages, where you respond with a “yes” or “no,” to sophisticated agents that can hold entire conversations. I imagined that the ser