Quickstart
From start to finish, create a conversational AI application with NLX in minutes
Create an account
You'll need an account to begin building conversational AI with NLX (it's free!).
Choose template
Head to https://platform.nlx.ai/onboarding The following templates are made available from the onboarding screen:
🎧 Handsfree AI browsing: Provides a readymade Voice+ application that can navigate your website for users, answer FAQs, handle small talk, and fill out web forms
📅 Appointment scheduler: Optimized for voice, this template provides a set of workflows that automate booking and creating a calendar event
🌐 Museum plan-your-day: Optimized for chat, this template provides a set of workflows that handle FAQs, give information on special exhibits, and address plan-your-day information
🔎Research agent: Optimized for communication over email, this template sets up an async worker application that can receive requests for tasks that involve searching the web; generating text, images, or PDFs; and emailing when the request is complete
✨ MCP Server: Describe your application and expose it via Model Context Protocol to extend the capabilities to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Postman
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If using the Research agent template for a purely agentic app, follow the Async worker page.
Each NLX workspace comes equipped with a built-in NLP engine managed by NLX; no external setup required. You may connect a third-party provider if a phone channel demands it, or you prefer using a specific engine.
Depending on the template you've imported, you'll notice a series of Flows in your workspace resources. Flows define the structured path a conversation can take, guiding how the application responds to users, collects information, makes decisions, and connects to external services to complete tasks.
Each flow contains instructional tips and best practices for you to fully customize or refine your application. Review each flow to ensure the logic, generative prompts, and messaging follow your intended process, or follow along to re-create your own from scratch. Swap for any custom or managed API integrations you need to finalize as well as flows you may want to add or remove.
Select Resources in workspace menu > Choose Flows > Choose a flow to open the flow builder
Make adjustment to flows as needed
Click Save
🧠 Looking for more? See Intro to flows & variables
Deploy
Now you'll update your conversational AI application with any changes made.
Select Applications from workspace menu > Choose application imported from template
From Configuration tab, select the API channel from the Delivery section
Ensure your webpage's base URL is listed under Whitelisted domains if installing the app to your web frontend > Click Update channel
Select deployment status in upper right > Choose Build and deploy
Create a build > Click Deploy build
Install
To make your application available through your frontend and adjust the look, feel, and experience with theming, custom UI components, and Voice input support, install the NLX Touchpoint SDK:
After a build is successfully deployed > Select API channel and choose Setup instructions
Scroll down and select Open Touchpoint configurator
You can try your application live and make adjustments to the theming
Once satisfied, copy Setup snippet > Install on your site
🧠 Looking for more? See Touchpoint
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