<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-06-03T15:52:43Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/7D1D7C77-2AC2-4911-9FF1-B0FDF6A5ACD7" ns1:id="7D1D7C77-2AC2-4911-9FF1-B0FDF6A5ACD7"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/EB4FCC9D-B9A0-4617-BDA0-508B2018A6EA" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/9B2C00FB-9A0C-48C2-A559-6F76AC925B67" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/9B2C00FB-9A0C-48C2-A559-6F76AC925B67" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2024-03-31T00:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/516475D1-243B-4839-BE9B-3626F243BD8A" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2022-09-30T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10033490</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Charibot: Low code, AI-powered chatbots for charities</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Collaborative R&amp;D</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>**Charibot: a SaaS solution for charities to create customised AI chatbots for their website.**

There are many chatbot options on the market, but they are limited to connecting website visitors to a human or answering simple questions (&amp;quot;what are your hours&amp;quot;).

Charibot is different. Charities can build their own custom chatbot that will interpret their website visitor's enquiries using AI natural language processing. Their chatbot can then automatically respond with pre-programmed responses, provided by the charity.

Between the natural language processing and visitor interface is an innovative layer of code designed to overcome current limitations of natural language AI, like:

* better error handling,
* allowing us to exceed topic limitations set by chatbot frameworks,
* inserting custom features like payment processing and form filling
* capture commonly misinterpreted text and rephrase for the AI
* identify &amp;quot;emergency keywords&amp;quot;, which escalates the chat to a human (&amp;quot;suicide&amp;quot;, for example)

**Fintek Software**

We are an established software development agency, founded in 2014 and based in Harlow, Essex. Since then we have helped NGOs in the social services with their tech needs, including Pat: the UK's first sexual health chatbot. Pat is custom project that has helped thousands of service users get help for 24/7 sexual health questions.

Our mission is to empower charities to connect with their communities better digitally.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>