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Munshi: a WhatsApp front desk for small hotels. A 4B model reads, Python decides, Temporal holds the room.

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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle TL;DR. Small hotels in Pakistan take bookings on WhatsApp, in Roman Urdu, at midnight. Munshi reads each message with a Qwen3.5-4B I fine-tuned on Tinker, prices the advance by how likely the guest is to cancel…

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  1. 2026-10-18 14:17 · DEV Community — AI
    Munshi: a WhatsApp front desk for small hotels. A 4B model reads, Python decides, Temporal holds the room.

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