diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index db8069e..b604a9b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "bcrypt": "^1.0.3",
     "browserify": "^14.5.0",
+    "cleverbot.io": "^1.0.4",
     "csv-stringify": "2.0.0",
     "envify": "^4.1.0",
     "express": "4.16.2",
@@ -37,10 +38,10 @@
     "grunt-contrib-sass": "1.0.0",
     "grunt-contrib-uglify-es": "git://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-uglify.git#harmony",
     "grunt-env": "^0.4.4",
-    "librelay": "3.4.0",
     "jquery": "3.2.1",
     "jsonwebtoken": "^8.1.0",
     "jwt-decode": "^2.2.0",
+    "librelay": "3.4.2",
     "lodash": "^4.17.4",
     "morgan": "1.9.0",
     "semantic-ui": "2.2.13",
diff --git a/server/forsta_bot.js b/server/forsta_bot.js
index 0da3994..6b90761 100644
--- a/server/forsta_bot.js
+++ b/server/forsta_bot.js
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 const BotAtlasClient = require('./atlas_client');
 const cache = require('./cache');
 const relay = require('librelay');
-
+const cleverbot = require("cleverbot.io");
+const bot = new cleverbot(process.env.CBOT_API_USER,process.env.CBOT_API_KEY);
 
 class ForstaBot {
 
@@ -26,9 +27,18 @@ class ForstaBot {
 
         this.msgSender = await relay.MessageSender.factory();
 
+        this.bot = await bot.create(function (err, session){
+          err ? console.log("cleverbot error:", err) : console.info("bot session:", session);
+          return bot;
+        });
+
         await this.msgReceiver.connect();
+
     }
 
+
+
+
     stop() {
         if (this.msgReceiver) {
             console.warn("Stopping message receiver");
@@ -65,19 +75,25 @@ class ForstaBot {
             console.error("Received unsupported message:", msgEnvelope);
             return;
         }
-
         const dist = await this.resolveTags(msg.distribution.expression);
-        const senderUser = (await this.getUsers([msg.sender.userId]))[0];
-
-        const reply = `Hello, ${senderUser.first_name}!`;
 
-        this.msgSender.send({
-            distribution: dist,
-            threadId: msg.threadId,
-            html: `${ reply }`,
-            text: reply
+        const query = msg.data.body[0].value;
+        bot.ask(query, (err, response) => {
+            if (!err) {
+                ;
+                console.info("you:", query);
+                console.info("cleverbot:", response);
+                this.msgSender.send({
+                    distribution: dist,
+                    threadId: msg.threadId,
+                    html: `${ response }`,
+                    text: response
+                });
+            } else {
+            console.info("error:", err);
+          }
         });
+
     }
 }
-
 module.exports = ForstaBot;