In a world where everyone’s talking about AI agents and automation, I wanted to get my hands dirty and solve real problems. Nothing fancy, just helpful tools that save time and reduce friction.
Here’s how I built two simple, no-code bots using Botpress, one of my go-to tools for creating conversational agents powered by keyword recognition, AI workflows, and good old “if-this-then-that” logic.
🧠 Use Case 1: The Startup Search Assistant
The company I work for has a private “advisor club” that offers high-value services, including access to a curated startup database across multiple verticals.
Here’s the issue: we didn’t want to give direct access to the entire database for confidentiality reasons. So when advisors submitted requests, we’d open up Excel, apply filters based on their interest, and return a custom shortlist of startups.
That worked… but it was manual, slow, and not scalable.
The solution? A bot embedded directly in Notion.
Using Botpress, I created a chatbot that allows advisors to type a simple query (e.g., “early-stage startups in sustainability”), which is then parsed, matched against keyword metadata, and returns a list of 10 relevant startups.
No more Excel filters. No more waiting. Just value on-demand, plus a better user experience in the space they already use.
🧾 Use Case 2: The Document Retriever
A friend of mine works in consulting for public administration and had a recurring productivity killer: whenever a client asked for a specific template, he had to pause what he was doing, dig through his Drive folders, and send over the file.
It wasn’t a hard task, but it was frequent, repetitive, and totally interruptive.
So we set up a simple system: renamed all his templates consistently, organized them in Google Drive, and connected it to a Botpress agent. Now, his clients can interact with the bot, type what they need, and instantly receive the link to the right file.
Bonus: the bot also reads the content of the documents to make sure the output is contextually relevant.
✨ Why This Matters
These are not mind-blowing bots. They don’t write code or solve the climate crisis.
But they solve real pain points. They create leverage.
And they showcase what anyone can do in 2025 with a bit of curiosity, the right tool, and a practical use case. You don’t need a PhD in ML. You just need a problem worth solving and the willingness to ship something useful.
🔧 Want to try it yourself? Here’s a video tutorial in Italian that walks you through building your first bot with Botpress.
If you build something cool, DM me. I’d love to see it.
Welcome to the future—one bot at a time.