Strib Fair Bot is a mobile-first, AI-powered discovery app built for fairgoers looking for their next bite at the Minnesota State Fair. It connects your culinary desires to the right vendors among the 250+ options at the Minnesota State Fair.
The product was built in partnership with ScreenGeni.us and features natural language search capabilities that connects user preferences and matches them to recommendations of vendors at the State Fair.
The process of matching a user’s input to a list of vendors utilizes ScreenGeni.us’s AI recommendation engine, which relies on vendor details, such as menu items, as well as editorial content written for the Strib Fair Bot by the Star Tribune newsroom.
Vendor reasoning on search results are AI-generated based on your search query. No information that a user enters into the application is used to train or otherwise augment generative AI models.
Strib Fair Bot also provides curated lists of vendors selected by Star Tribune journalists. These curated lists, which include categories such as Strib faves, kid-approved and fresh takes, were supplied by the journalists on the Food & Culture team, and do not rely on AI.
For questions or general inquires, please contact Frank Bi at frank.bi@startribune.com.
