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

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14954 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.14954/

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- First posted on arXiv 24 Jan 2025.

## Abstract (arXiv)

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.