We’re building a chatbot that can query the Root Insurance API, and can be made available across multiple different chat interfaces, like Facebook, Slack and Google Assistant, using Natural Language Processing (NLP).
The aim of the day is to learn new things. You do not need to complete the full app. The agenda of the day caters for varying levels of experience and different people will learn different things by playing with the same tools.
Before you come to the Make Day, there are a couple of basics you need to have under your belt. Complete the items on this checklist and you’ll be ready to take on the challenges of building Insurtech bots at the Make Day. If you get stuck on any of these, please shout in Make Slack.
- Join Make Slack Team
- Watch this 15 Minute Video on Dialogflow Basics (Dialogflow used to be called API.ai). You don't need to follow the build as you'll do the tutorial next.
- Do the Silly Name Maker tutorial on Dialogflow (the example uses Firebase and JS in the build fulfillment section, but we highly suggest avoiding this and using ngrok or your preferred way to expose an endpoint)
- Create an Organisation in Root and ensure the insurance module(s) are enabled for that organisation
- Have a look around the Root Insurance API docs to understand what you can do with the Insurance API
- Successfully query the Root API for a quote using Postman or similar tool and get a response (note that you need to use
sandbox.root...in your request urls while testing, notapi.root...) - Check out the Pro Tips from previous Make Days
- Have a look around the Example Apps made by previous Makers and Root Devs
- Write down one thing thing you want to figure out on the Make Day
- Be awesome :)
Please note that DialogFlow API V1 was the default API when this course was run. Since then V2 has launched and is now default for any new Agents that are created. The version of the API is specified for each of the example Apps. If you use these examples then expect that they won't work 100% with a V2 Agent.