A bot can be as simple as an alarm clock, and as complex as an full blown AI with financial products.
Most simple bots enable a type of conversation with your users, or even just an interaction. For example, the Forget Your User bot only knows how to handle one message: tradle.ForgetMe. When it receives that message, it wipes the user state object.
Silly Bot is a tiny bot that is very bad at banter.
Keep it Fresh Bot is a bot that watches a volatile item, and notifies your users. It can be configured to do anything from keeping your user updated with your latest data models (see the Require Models bot) or styles (see the Require Styles bot), or for distributing the joke of the day. Hooked up to a microphone module, it can be used as a baby monitor and text your user when it's time to come home from vacation because the baby's awake.
The Hackathon Inviter bot, live at https://bots.tradle.io, asks users to confirm their emails, then notifies the dev team of their interest. Nope, it has nothing more to say, delete it from your contact list.
The Sell Some Products can be configured to walk users through a purchase of any product for which you've developed data models. The example bot for this strategy is currently live on https://bots.tradle.io as the Age Police. It can issue you proof-of-age certificates.
Style Me is a bot that lets you edit your provider's styles in-chat, and see the results in realtime.
As you can see, bots can range from mini-behaviors (nano-bots), which can be assembled together, and mega-bots, which have an entire complex agenda. We look forward to showcasing your bots!