Preparation Last updated: 1oth June 2025

Ok so you've downloaded the Venture software, what's next?

File Extraction

Venture is provided in .zip format, if you don't have the software to unzip the content, visit WinRar for a free download and install. Once WinRar is installed move the chat-bot-main.zip file to an easily accessible location e.g. the desktop or to a main C: or D: directory, it takes up a lot of space, Pro is 233Mb's, Free is 199Mb.

Right click on the chat-bot-main.zip file and choose "exract here".

Install VS Code

Download here, and install.

Python

Install Python on your PC, make sure to download and install the latest version, which at the time of writing is 3.13.4

If it's already installed check the version, open the command line, Power Shell is a good choice, if you don't have it, download here, scroll down and install a .msi version.

Add the following using the command line to check which version of Python you have;

python3 --version

If you have it installed and it's older than the latest use;

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

If you don't have it visit python.org for the download, and install as you would any other program.

Virtual Environment

CD into the chat-bot-main location, for example;

cd D:my-folder\chat-bot-main

And then create the environment, using;

python -m venv venv

It'll take a couple of seconds to install, and once complete you'll return to an empty command line. There shouldn't be any errors at this stage.

And now activate, using;

.\\venv\\Scripts\\Activate.ps1

If it works without error you should see a <venv> before the command line.

If you get an error message, use;

Set-ExecutionPolicy - ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -scope Process

And now activate, using;

.\\venv\\Scripts\\Activate.ps1

Python Module

CD into the backend folder

cd backend

Run the following command;

pip install -r requirements.txt

This takes a coupe of seconds, you'll see lots of files being install, and you'll return to the command line.

Install uvicorn;

python -m pip install "uvicorn[standard]"

OpenAI API Key

Visit OpenAI website and create an account.

Pay for the subscription, and then naviage to the OpenAI Platform and create an API Key.

Type anything into name, it doesn't matter, keep the default setting as they are, and then hit "Create Secret Key".

Copy the secret key and keep somewhere safe, once you close this page you can't access it again!.

OpenAI API Key - Overview

This is used to run your AI Chatbot, whenever a visitor asks a question, and the bot answers, the information is processed using OPenAI.

Add API Key

Open VS Code, click "Open File," and navigate to the chat-bot-main location, and open .env, the template is already included, just add your API after the = sign, make sure to remove your-key-here, i.e.;

OPENAI_API_KEY=your-key-here

First Test!

Now that we've completed that, you can fire up the backend and see if your Bot works! - Hopefully the previous steps were painless, which they should be, as I've carried out countless tests prior to making the software available. Venture AI is a stable product, it's been designed to work out of the box with minimal customisation - good luck.

Now open a "Terminal" (in the top menu), and restart uvicorn, with;

python -m venv .venv

And then;

python -m uvicorn main:app --reload --port 8000

Install Live Server

In the brown sidebar (with the icons), third from the bottom, search "Live Server" - the developer is Ritwick Dey if you need to narrow it down, and install.

Open file, frontend/index.html

At the bottom right, in the blue, hit "go live."

Support

Any issues visit Github for help.