For a complete video guide, visit our Youtube tutorial below:

This bot can:

- Handle these voice messages, images, and text
- Answer common queries
- Troubleshoot based on photos
- Send AI-powered responses & visuals back

We’ve made it public and you can clone the exact flow here:

Step 3: Build Your Message Processing Flow

1. Extract the message text from the webhook payload
2. Generate a response using AI (text or image)
3. Send the response back to the user

Step 2: Create Your BuildShip Workflow

1. Create a new flow and add a REST API trigger (this will receive messages from WhatsApp)
3. Copy the webhook URL from BuildShip
4. Go back to your WhatsApp sender API and paste the webhook URL 
5. Enable the "message.received" event

Step 1: Connect Your WhatsApp Number to the sender API:

1. Create an account with a WhatsApp sender API service
2. Create a new WhatsApp session
3. Enter your phone number
4. Enable webhook notifications 
5. Scan the QR code with your WhatsApp app

Before we start, here's what you'll need:

- A spare WhatsApp number (or any number you want to turn into a bot)
- A WhatsApp sender API account
- A BuildShip account

Clone the tool 👉

Ditch those Google forms. Remix the full tool here:

You should definitely check out BuildShip if you're looking to build scalable AI workflows. It has enterprise-grade workflows builder but with a Zapier-like easy UI. You can create your own nodes, have full code access, and even self-host if you need to. 10x cheaper as it’s geared for scale.

And with that, SHIP Week wraps up, but the journey is just getting started 🙏

The tools are yours. The platform is open. Code is accessible.

We can't wait to see what you build and share ⚡

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Preview Apps 💅

You can now Build → Connect → Preview your tool as an app.

Visually test, save examples and publish the tool to showcase your work.
Example tool: https://buildship.tools/tool/l6V4qwPwHE99

Be among the first creators to publish tools on BuildShip. 🌱

- Craft and share tools and flows to showcase your work. 
- Explore our growing library of AI Agent tools 

Take a look at the full list of AI x UX enhancements we've made in our latest product update video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOofscUhjbE

What has been your favourite update so far? Or what would you like us to build next? 

Let us know 👇

5. AI Handoff Prompt

No more manually integrating your API or Tools into frontend apps.

Get a ready-to-paste prompt from the AI Handoff tab under the Trigger Usage section.

Use this with any of your favourite AI frontend builders from v0, Lovable Bolt, Cursor, Windsurf etc.

4. Pause / Sleep Nodes

Need to pause workflows until a human gives the green light?

With Pause/Sleep Nodes, you can.

Add manual review to critical steps in your automation, because even with AI, human feedback keeps it grounded.