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We are optimistic about the rise of AI as\n              far as bots are concerned, and we are obsessed with writing tools\n              for building them that developers will love.\n            </p>\n            <p>\n              From the start we were convinced that bots are going to be huge,\n              because they mark a turning point in user interaction. Up until\n              now, users have had to take responsibility for getting their\n              software to understand what they want. With bots, that\n              responsibility is turned on its head: now the software shoulders\n              the burden of understanding the user’s intention.\n            </p>\n            <p>\n              Bots matter because they let people naturally delegate inefficient\n              tasks to software that is designed to do it. This means people\n              accomplish more—they spend less time engaging with software, and\n              less time doing tasks that software can do for them.\n            </p>\n          </Col>\n        </Row>\n      </Container>\n    </SectionMain>\n    <SectionMain backgroundColor=\"lighter\">\n      <Container className=\"text-center\">\n        <Row>\n          <Col md={{ size: 8, offset: 2 }}>\n            <SectionTitle className=\"text-center\">\n              How Botpress started\n            </SectionTitle>\n            <p>\n              Botpress wasn’t the first thing we wanted to build in this space.\n              We first started building a front-end for what is called\n              “chatops.” Short for chat operations, this is a technology that\n              runs software functions—especially devops; software development\n              and operations—through a chat platform by giving instructions to\n              bots.\n            </p>\n            <p>\n              But we soon realized that we needed a solid foundation to build\n              our chatops bots on top of—and this foundation represented a much\n              bigger opportunity.\n            </p>\n            <p>\n              What we were missing was a great bot framework aimed at\n              developers. There were many bot platforms out there targeting\n              amateurs, along with some essentially code-it-from-scratch\n              proprietary frameworks…but we didn’t want our creativity to be\n              limited, nor did we want to spend unnecessary time on common\n              functionality that could be coded once for everyone.\n            </p>\n            <p>We knew we needed three things:</p>\n          </Col>\n        </Row>\n      </Container>\n    </SectionMain>\n    <SectionMain>\n      <Container>\n        <Cards>\n          <Card>\n            <Title3>A developer-friendly environment (code!)</Title3>\n            <p>\n              GUI bot-building platforms might make it faster to get started—but\n              we didn’t want to throw away all the other advantages of code,\n              such as professional source control, flexibility, shared\n              components, copy-and-paste—and of course leveraging the almost\n              unlimited awesome, existing tools out there for developers. These\n              were advantages that could be applied not just to the building of\n              the bot, but to the tools supporting its deployment—which in our\n              opinion were just as important as the bot itself.\n            </p>\n          </Card>\n          <Card>\n            <Title3>A user-friendly dashboard</Title3>\n            <p>\n              Code is great for building, but we still wanted the bot to be\n              simple for non-technical staff to use. That meant they would need\n              friendly and intuitive dashboards to manage the bot; dashboards\n              that could be customized for them by the bot developers to make\n              them as easy as possible to use. So we came up with the bot\n              management system (BMS).\n            </p>\n          </Card>\n          <Card>\n            <Title3>An open, flexible, future-proof framework</Title3>\n            <p>\n              Finally, we wanted a framework that worked with all the main bot\n              tools and services that are out there right now or will emerge in\n              time. We wanted to be open and future proof—not locking people\n              into a proprietary solution.\n            </p>\n          </Card>\n        </Cards>\n        <p className=\"text-center mt-5\">\n          <span className=\"is-block\">\n            These three components came together as Botpress.\n          </span>{' '}\n          We released the beta in January 2017, and version 1 a few months after\n          that.\n        </p>\n      </Container>\n    </SectionMain>\n    <SectionMain backgroundColor=\"medium\">\n      <Container>\n        <Row>\n          <Col md={{ size: 8, offset: 2 }}>\n            <SectionTitle>Botpress 1.0</SectionTitle>\n            <p>\n              We got an amazing response to the first version of\n              Botpress—especially from seasoned developers.\n            </p>\n            <p>We also learned lessons.</p>\n            <p>\n              Advanced developers loved it…but beginners struggled with it. That\n              needed to change. Our goal, ultimately, was to democratize\n              professional bot development: to make the ideas and passion more\n              important than development skills. It needed to be a software\n              movement, which meant that it needed to be inclusive of all\n              developers.\n            </p>\n            <p>\n              <strong>\n                So we set out towards building the next version with clear\n                objectives: to make Botpress 10X easier to use…and 10X more\n                powerful.\n              </strong>\n            </p>\n            <p>\n              We obsessed about everything. Like the visual flow builder. We\n              needed it, but it had to be simple…and ultra fast…and most\n              importantly it had to sync with the code both ways, to remain true\n              to our developer-first vision.\n            </p>\n            <p>\n              We believe we have managed to create something truly valuable to\n              bot developers. We are calling the new version Botpress 10X—and\n              it’s nearly ready for release.\n            </p>\n          </Col>\n        </Row>\n      </Container>\n    </SectionMain>\n    <SectionMain backgroundColor=\"light\">\n      <Container className=\"text-center\">\n        <Row>\n          <Col md={{ size: 8, offset: 2 }}>\n            <SectionTitle className=\"text-center\">What’s next</SectionTitle>\n            <p>\n              We have accomplished many things over the past year—but it’s just\n              a fraction of what is possible. There are so many things to come.\n            </p>\n            <p>\n              We are really grateful to the thousands of developers who have\n              supported Botpress from the early days until now. Without them we\n              would be nowhere.\n            </p>\n            <p>\n              In some ways, our early days in chatops still influence our vision\n              of the future. Bots will ultimately be about way more than NLP and\n              conversations. In the future they will be primarily about\n              operations. And eventually they will become a natural part of\n              interacting with any software; a part of every application\n              interface in some way. Bots will be woven into our everyday life\n              in a natural way.\n            </p>\n            <p>We can’t wait to play our part in making that happen.</p>\n            <p>\n              Thanks again for joining us on this journey and contributing. The\n              future of chatbot development belongs to developers and to\n              openness!\n            </p>\n            <p>\n              <em>—Sylvain & the team at Botpress</em>\n            </p>\n          </Col>\n        </Row>\n      </Container>\n    </SectionMain>\n\n    <SectionMain>\n      <Container className=\"text-center\">\n        <SectionTitle className=\"text-center\">\n          Excited about Botpress?\n        </SectionTitle>\n        <Button size=\"big\" to=\"/download\">\n          Try it now <Icon name=\"github\" />\n        </Button>\n        <Button size=\"big\" to=\"/features/overview\">\n          See features <Icon name=\"chevron-right\" />\n        </Button>\n      </Container>\n    </SectionMain>\n  </Fragment>\n)\n\nexport default About\n\n\n\n// WEBPACK FOOTER //\n// ./src/pages/company/about.js"],"sourceRoot":""}