SolarChats – LLMs Integrated into Project Management

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SolarChats – LLMs Integrated into Project Management

A few months ago I started exploring OpenAI's API, with experimental integration of ChatGPT4 into a project management system I'd written. As that progressed, I found giving the LLMs a specific expertise made them better assistants, so I remade my project into a home solar energy adoption R&D and planning resource. That purposeful limiting of the scope of the project appears to have made the LLM chatbots more directed and significantly better assistants. So, the project continued with a solar adoption focus... SolarChats.com is a series of personality chatbots integrated into traditional project management software, such as text chats, memos, spreadsheets, document sharing, and project privacy. The LLM integration provides voice to text, solar expert chatbots, a creative writing professor chatbot, a finance expert chatbot, a spreadsheet authoring expert chatbot, a negotiations chatbot, and secondary behind the scenes analysis bots that analyze chat conversations for the quality of the human communications and use that to moderate the other chatbots to include more explainers in their replies because the human does not appear to be comprehending, or shorten the replies because the human appears to understand what they are doing. The chatbot/AIs do not do one's project, they provide expert guidance while you plan whatever your solar project happens to be. Some of the chatbots are also downright silly. But their advice is still expert. The chatbots with personality are only in the top level chat interface used for initial research, and once one has information that has graduated from a chat conversation to a formalized memo of information you want to retain, when editing a memo (or spreadsheet) the chatbots are strictly business, assisting without personality. I'm interested in what people think, and I am interested in discussion with others that may be working along the same lines. And, yes, I am aware the site looks like it's from 2007. A slick web design is not the point right now...