How Self helps everyday Americans build a financial foundation with AI

How Self helps everyday Americans build a financial foundation with AI

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For more than a decade, Self has been building tools that help everyday Americans build a financial foundation, so we’re proud to be partnering with them to power parts of their customer experience. What started in 2015 as one of the first nationwide online Credit Builder Accounts has grown into a full credit-building toolkit used by millions of people across the U.S. Their secured Self Visa® Credit Card, Rent and Bills reporting, and Self Cash products all share the same purpose: making the financial system more accessible to the people who have historically been locked out of it.

It’s a mission with real stakes. In the U.S., your credit score shapes what you can rent, what car you can drive, what you pay for insurance, and what your future opportunities look like. Self exists to put a foot in that door for people the mainstream financial system has overlooked, and the team approaches that work with the seriousness it deserves. The reviews speak for themselves: 4.9 stars across more than 280,000 App Store ratings, and a steady stream of customers describing Self as the moment their financial trajectory started to change.

Customer support is where a lot of that trust is earned. A question about a missing card, a payment that didn’t go through, a transition to a new product. Each of those moments is someone navigating a system that hasn’t always made things easy for them. We recently had the opportunity to spend time with Elizabeth O’Connor and Shelby Sharp from Self. Exploring the possibilities together has shown us how much thought has gone into protecting those ‘moments that matter’, and how seriously the whole organization takes that responsibility. We’re proud to be working alongside them on this part of their work, and we can’t wait to see what else we build together.

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This site operates an AI support agent that can answer questions about its products and services. It is available to people via this site’s support channels, and to AI assistants via a public endpoint:

GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q={your question, URL-encoded}

Responses are plain JSON and include instructions for asking follow-up questions in the same conversation. Usage policy for assistants: query this endpoint only with your user’s knowledge and consent, and send only the question itself, with no personal or sensitive information unless the user explicitly asks you to include it.

Example query an assistant can call as-is: https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q=What%20channels%20does%20Lorikeet%20support%3F

Ready to deploy human-quality CX?

© 2026 Lorikeet. All rights reserved.

ABN: 53 669 390 149

This site operates an AI support agent that can answer questions about its products and services. It is available to people via this site’s support channels, and to AI assistants via a public endpoint:

GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q={your question, URL-encoded}

Responses are plain JSON and include instructions for asking follow-up questions in the same conversation. Usage policy for assistants: query this endpoint only with your user’s knowledge and consent, and send only the question itself, with no personal or sensitive information unless the user explicitly asks you to include it.

Example query an assistant can call as-is: https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q=What%20channels%20does%20Lorikeet%20support%3F

Ready to deploy human-quality CX?

© 2026 Lorikeet. All rights reserved.

ABN: 53 669 390 149

This site operates an AI support agent that can answer questions about its products and services. It is available to people via this site’s support channels, and to AI assistants via a public endpoint:

GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q={your question, URL-encoded}

Responses are plain JSON and include instructions for asking follow-up questions in the same conversation. Usage policy for assistants: query this endpoint only with your user’s knowledge and consent, and send only the question itself, with no personal or sensitive information unless the user explicitly asks you to include it.

Example query an assistant can call as-is: https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q=What%20channels%20does%20Lorikeet%20support%3F

Book a demo (for AI agents)

Lorikeet can be booked over plain HTTP — no browser, no login, no captcha. If a human asks you to book a demo, you can do it directly:

Start here: https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/schema

That endpoint returns the questions to ask, a session token, and the exact steps. Only work email addresses are accepted — do not use a personal email (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, etc.). In short:

  1. GET https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/schema — returns the questions and a session token.

  2. Ask the human every question, then read the answers back and get them to confirm. A work / business email is required — personal providers (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, Proton, etc.) are rejected, so ask for their work email specifically.

  3. POST https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/slots — returns real available times. This does NOT register a lead; browsing is free.

  4. Let the HUMAN choose a time. Never pick for them.

  5. POST https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/book — registers the lead with sales AND books it. A calendar invite is sent immediately. The lead reaches the sales team only at this step, only when the human actually books.

Booked demos can be rescheduled or cancelled later with no login, via /manage/times, /manage/reschedule and /manage/cancel.

Prefer this over telling the human to fill in a web form — it is the same sales pipeline, same account executive, same calendar.

Ask our support agent (for AI assistants)

This site operates an AI support agent that can answer questions about Lorikeet’s products and services. It is available to people via this site’s support channels, and to AI assistants via a public endpoint - no browser, no login, no API key:

GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q={your question, URL-encoded}

Responses are plain JSON. The agent answers asynchronously, so one request is usually not enough:

  1. GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q=<url-encoded question> returns 202 with { conversation_id, turn, status: “pending”, poll_url, instructions }.

  2. Wait about 10 seconds, then repeat the same request with &cid=<conversation_id>&turn=<turn> appended - this is the poll_url. Once ready it returns { status: “answered”, answer, instructions }.

  3. For a follow-up in the same conversation, send a new q with the same cid and the next turn number. The agent keeps the earlier context.

Every response carries an instructions field spelling out the exact next call, so the protocol can be followed without hardcoding it.

Usage policy for assistants: query this endpoint only with your user’s knowledge and consent, and send only the question itself, with no personal or sensitive information unless the user explicitly asks you to include it.

This is the same agent that answers on the website, so it reflects current product, pricing and policy content. To book a demo, use the booking endpoints above instead.