DPMK48/NibBot

NibBot is a bilingual AI assistant on WhatsApp that helps small business owners in Nigeria track their daily sales and purchases by voice or text in English and Hausa. # NibBot > One-line summary: A bilingual WhatsApp-based AI bookkeeping assistant for small business women in Nigeria that extracts transactions from voice/text and tracks daily profit without a calculator. ## HER Hackathon Track - Track: SME Growth - Team Name: Dexplorers - Team Members: - Dorathy Paul — Team Lead & Product Developer - Deborah Fashida — Researcher & Designer ## Problem Statement Small business and market women in Nigeria struggle to track their daily sales, purchases, and profits because traditional bookkeeping apps are too complex, require manual typing, and are only in English, while paper logs are easily lost or damaged. This leads to poor cash flow management, loss of business capital, and lack of records to secure micro-loans. Evidence from validation (we spoke to 10 women retailers to understand how they manage their business finances): - **8/10 women** couldn't confidently calculate their daily profit. - **6/10 women** said poor financial records limited their planning, funding, or business growth. - **5/10 women** had stopped keeping detailed records because it was too difficult to maintain. > Note: AI helped us organize our research and refine questions, but our problem validation is based on real user research and credible sources. ## Solution Overview NibBot helps small business women in Nigeria achieve financial clarity and track daily profits by providing a simple, voice-enabled bookkeeping assistant directly inside WhatsApp. *Note on AI Integration: To keep prototype run costs at zero, the bot is currently running on a robust rule-based text/voice-note parser. However, the complete integration for OpenAI GPT-4o-mini and Whisper is fully coded and ready to be toggled on by adding a standard API key to the environment variables.* Core features: 1. **Bilingual Voice & Text Logging**: Speak or type naturally in English or Hausa (tailored for users in Northern Nigeria, with plans to expand to Yoruba and Igbo). 2. **Transaction …