Pantera

Searching for team members
Sending notification to targeted group (Only designers in team B5 in this example)

Inspiration

2017 is the year of AI and automation, we decided to pick up the trend and bring the automation in offices.

What it does

Pantera is a Virtual Personal Assistant who knows everyone and everything about the company. Thanks to the natural language processing algorithm, it understands your normal conversation so you can talk to Pantera as if it was a human. Here's what Pantera does for you in your daily work:

Schedule the meetings for you.
See who is free in your or other teams.
Show you detailed information about the team member
Show who is available
Poke someone
Send mass notifications to targeted group (i.e. Developers only, members of team ABC only, designers of team ABC only, etc).

(Please take a look at screenshots to get the idea of just how familiar it is to use Pantera)

How we built it

Pantera is not a standalone application, it should be integrated into your digital workspace platform. For now as a demo, we built a small Laravel based application which takes input, processes it and gives you the feedback.

Challenges we ran into

Natural Language Processing was the hardest part of this project, but we did a good job and Pantera has a high success rate in understanding user's input.