MISCON: A Mission-Driven Conversational Consultant for Pre-Venture Entrepreneurs in Food Deserts

Abstract

This work-in-progress report describes MISCON, a conversational consultant being developed for a public mission project called NOURISH. With MISCON, aspiring small business owners in a food-insecure region and their advisors in Community-based organizations would be able to get information, recommendation and analysis regarding setting up food businesses. MISCON conversations are modeled as state machine that uses a heterogeneous knowledge graph as well as several analytical tools and services including a variety of LLMs. In this short report, we present the functional architecture and some design considerations behind MISCON.

arXiv comment8 pages. Acccepted for AAAI 2025 Workshop on AI for Public Missions, March 3rd, 2025