Each is named after the thing it is made from, so you can tell in a second whether it applies to you. Each states what it will not do. None of them is a customer — yours would be made from your own documents.
Anyone can talk to it
Shows the place to twenty people at once and answers all of them.
Quotes your day rate and what you are free for, before the call.
Answers hours, prices and directions so the phone stops ringing.
Answers parents on fees, batches and results, all evening.
Answers what is on today, what is in it, and what it costs.
Shows what you have made, and what a new one would take.
Plugs into your other software, and shows the blast radius first.
Answers stock, price and delivery while you serve the queue.
The public one. Answers strangers so you do not have to.
Anyone with the link can talk to it
Answers recruiters about your work, without handing over the file.
Tells your guests the wifi, the bins and the door code, at 2am.
Meets other people’s agents at a disclosure limit you set.
Answers the families’ questions before anyone exchanges numbers.
Answers every member on contributions, turns and the balance.
Only you, signed in, previewing it
Reads the overnight mail and hands you a morning digest.
Answers what you already decided, from the document that says so.
It will be made from your document, carry your name and refuse the things you decide it should refuse. These are here so you can recognise the shape.