How to Add Your Custom GPTs to WhatsApp: A Step-by-Step Guide

Have you created an awesome GPT and want to break it out of the ChatGPT site? Here’s how you can connect your custom GPTs to WhatsApp, tapping into its massive user base of over 2 billion monthly active users. This integration can automate key business tasks like customer support, lead generation, or appointment setting.

Let’s walk through the process of setting up a WhatsApp lead generation chatbot from start to finish.

What We’re Building

We’ll create a lead generation chatbot that:

• Answers questions about a specific product or service
• Captures leads by collecting names and phone numbers
• Logs lead information to a CRM (we’ll use Airtable)

To make this happen, we’ll use:

1. OpenAI’s Assistant API
2. Replit for hosting our code
3. MiniChat to connect with WhatsApp

Step 1: Set Up Your Replit Environment

1. Clone the provided Replit
2. Fork the Replit to create your own copy
3. Open the functions.py file to customize your chatbot:

• Modify the knowledge base document