🧠 How I Built an AI Assistant That Handles My Instagram DMs and Customer Photos for CanvasMagnet

As a solo founder running CanvasMagnet, I used to spend hours replying to DMs, following up with customers, and prepping images for print.

Eventually, I asked myself:
“Why am I doing this manually when AI can do it better and faster?”

So I built my own AI system that automates the entire customer communication workflow.

🔄 What My AI Assistant Does

✅ Automatically reads Instagram DMs
✅ Analyzes full chat history using GPT
✅ Decides what to do: follow-up, remind, ignore, or confirm order
✅ Sends context-aware replies that feel human
✅ Logs every message into a local database for training or fine-tuning later
✅ Waits random intervals to avoid spam detection

The assistant is smart enough to recognize:

• If a customer says “I’ll message later” → it pauses
• If they say “How much for 9 photos?” → it sends pricing
• If they send their address and photos → it confirms the order
• and so on..

🖼 Meet SoftCropper: My Photo Automation Tool

Besides DMs, I also had to prepare customer photos for printing. It was time-consuming and error-prone.

So I built SoftCropper, a Python tool that:

• Resizes photos to square (5x5cm)
• Adds blurred borders
• Generates clean, print-ready images

It saves 15–30 minutes per order, and I don’t have to touch Photoshop.

You can install it via PyPI:

pip install softcropper

PyPI: SoftCropper

🚀 What’s Next?

• Trainf and feed message logs into Local models
• Build a simple CRM-like dashboard
• Add support for WhatsApp automation
• Let the bot suggest upsells and new package offers

👋 Want to Try It or See a Demo?

Message me at:
📧 khaledalam.net@gmail.com
📱 WhatsApp: +971 58 293 6628
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