When Kelsey Hunter and her partners set out to make an easier way for concerned people to affect politics, she didn’t anticipate that it would become her next job.

After the election Hunter and a group of friends built CallParty, a chatbot that lives inside Facebook Messenger. When users say hi to the bot it provides them with all the information they need, including phone numbers and even scripts, to call their reps.

“All these things came together and we were like, ‘Oh, we can prompt people through Facebook Messenger. We can hook up to open government data and geocode their district ID,'” Hunter explained in a phone call this week.

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