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ClariBuddy 🐻

Your AI best friend, built around you.

Team Unempluzz Ishanvi Upare · Manaswini Cuddapah · Diksha Metri

Inspiration

AI is becoming more powerful every day, but not everyone has equal access to it.

People who are confident in English, familiar with technology, or experienced with prompting already have a major advantage. Meanwhile, ESL speakers, immigrants, people with learning disabilities, and low-literacy users are often left behind.

We created ClariBuddy to make AI feel approachable, supportive, and personalized for everyone.

What it does

ClariBuddy is a beginner-friendly AI assistant that adapts to each user’s communication style and comfort level.

Through a simple onboarding flow, users can share preferences like:

simpler explanations
step-by-step guidance
learning through examples
comfort with technology
language preferences

ClariBuddy then adjusts its tone, pacing, and explanation style automatically so users can chat naturally without needing prompting skills or technical knowledge.

How we built it

Frontend

React + Vite
Node.js
Docker

Backend

FastAPI
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Uvicorn
Docker

We used Gemini to power personalized conversational responses based on each user’s selected communication preferences.

Challenges

As a team of freshmen and complete beginners to full-stack AI development, we learned technologies like React, FastAPI, Docker, backend integration, and AI workflows entirely during the hackathon.

One of our biggest challenges was balancing ambitious accessibility goals with limited time, debugging issues, and learning everything from scratch as freshmen with limited background knowledge.