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How to Give Super Powers to Your Forms With Chatbots

A few years ago, chatbots started to become more and more popular and today is time for chatbots to make better forms, much like website did a few years ago.

Education

Top 5 Advices to Get Started With Programming

Learning a new skill is challenging for many reasons. First of all, we start investing time in something we know only very little about and it can take days, weeks or even months before we start to understand what it takes to be "good" at it. Since it takes a

Getting Started

How To Add a Chatbot To Your WordPress Website

Find out how to integrate your chatbot to your Wordpress website in three simple steps!

Write a Custom Ruby Function for CSML

Code your own custom function in Ruby and use it in your CSML chatbot

Getting Started

Write Custom Javascript Functions For CSML

Discover how to use CSML External Functions to augment your code with custom javascript code!

What Is a Botathon and How We Use It for Team Building

We, at Clevy, have been building tools to create chatbots for years. Every single person in the company is in charge of either developing these tools, and selling them. Among other technologies, Clevy is the company behind CSML, the programming language to which this blog is dedicated. CSML was designed

Education

From Building Chatbots To Becoming a Developer

When we first designed CSML, we wanted it to be a very high-level programming language with a very simple goal: making it easy to develop rich chatbots. Little did we know that within months, not only developers would use CSML but also non-developers would get into coding thanks to CSML!

Thoughts & ideas

8 Alternatives to Facebook Messenger for Your Chatbot

This article was written on the 6th of December, a few days before Facebook Messenger's Big Depreciation of European Chatbots. For more information about Facebook's decision, read this article. Choosing the right channel for your chatbot is an important decision. Many factors can influence this choice: where do your users

News

CSML Is 1 Year Old 🎉

Today we're going to look back on the past twelve months and see what CSML and its community of developers achieved in a year.

Get your Chatbot to Speak more than 50 Languages with Amazon Translate

One of the great strengths of chatbots is their ability to adapt to each and every user. Chatbots can remember user details, fetch information from third-party API, or ask questions to the user. Being able to speak and understand the user's language is surely on the top of the list

Case Study

A million messages to fight covid-19 with Cogvio Covidbot

Early 2020, Covid-19 started spreading across the world, this situation was unexpected and most countries were unable to handle the flow of questions and inform their population. Many countries realised that chatbots were an excellent way to keep the population informed in real time. In France, one of the very

Case Study

Use the actual Eliza algorithm in your chatbot

The first significant chatbot ever created was Eliza. It is a program, part of the early work in NLP (Natural Language Processing).

Apps

Create a customer support chatbot with Zendesk

Customer support is key to keep your existing customers, it is key to maintain a good reputation, it is key to acquire new customers.

Apps

Optimize your chatbot with Google Analytics

The golden rule when creating any kind of online service is to monitor its activity through analytics. Any business needs analytics, they…

Apps

Use Airtable as a database for your chatbot

Building a chatbot often requires a database, let’s see how to use Airtable in CSML in a few clicks.