ClarityView

An AI platform converting complex government, legal, work, school, and official documents into clear, language and practical step-by-step checklists to save time for busy working parents.

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Inspiration

Our team got this idea after watching our own busy parents struggle to read through massive piles of school forms, medical papers, and government notices. We realized that kids often miss out on great opportunities just because their parents don't have hours of free time to figure out confusing language after a long day at work.

What it does

The platform takes complex documents like school notices, legal forms, or work paperwork and breaks them down into plain, simple English. It takes away all the confusing junk and generates a clear, step-by-step checklist with important deadlines so parents know exactly what to do next.

How we built it

We built ClarityView as a website that works great on phones, using Next.js and Tailwind CSS, and we put it online with Vercel. When a parent pastes text or uploads a PDF, we pull the words out of the file using a tool called unpdf, then send them to the Google Gemini AI. We wrote careful instructions that make the AI always answer in the same neat format — what kind of document it is, how urgent it is, a simple summary, a to-do checklist with deadlines, the important dates, and a reminder of what the parent should decide. We also tell the AI today's date so it gets deadlines right. Every document a parent checks is saved in a Supabase database, which powers our "My Documents" page that automatically sorts each file into folders by type. Because we built this for immigrant parents, we translate both the AI's answers and the whole website into 7 languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, French, Hindi, and Arabic, even reads right-to-left. We also made sure every button, label, and message uses simple, easy-to-read words, not just the AI's answers.

Challenges we ran into

One challenge we ran into was the risk of the user being fully reliant on the AI's decisions and next steps. We believed that the user may blindly follow the AI's recommendations on what to do next, while it may not be in line with what the user wants. We want the AI to help the user know what they have to do, but the decision should be up to them fully.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Developing a working AI-incorporated platform to help busy working parents save time.
  • Successfully designed a safety mechanism that keeps the parents in total control of all final decisions.
  • Created a user-friendly platform specifically for non-technical users who manage lots of work.
  • Making the platform multilingual.

What we learned

We learned about how people use AI. It is really easy for users to just trust whatever the computer says, so we had to figure out how to remind them that they are still in control.

What's next for ClarityView

We want to incorporate ClarityView with things like Google Calendar or Apple Calendar that gives the user the option to choose if they want to add the important dates to the calendar. Also, we want to turn our web tool into a native mobile app so parents can use their phone camera to scan documents instantly.

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