Inspiration
Modern websites often fail to answer customer questions hidden in lengthy manuals, FAQs, or policy documents. We wanted to create a frictionless, intelligent way for users to simply "ask" their documents questions and get instant answers — without support tickets, page digging, or slow chatbots. Businesses need smarter ways to scale support, and DocuBot.AI delivers just that.
What it does
DocuBot.AI is a serverless AI assistant that allows users to:
- Upload PDFs, DOCX, or text documents
- Instantly chat with those documents using natural language
- Embed a floating chat widget (like Intercom) on any site with one line of JS
- Leverage the power of Amazon Bedrock to summarize, answer, and explain
- All powered by AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and S3 — with no infrastructure to manage
How we built it
We built DocuBot.AI as a fully serverless, production-ready app using:
- AWS Lambda for backend compute
- API Gateway to trigger chat + upload endpoints
- Amazon S3 to temporarily store uploaded documents
- Amazon Bedrock (Claude) to generate natural language responses
- React + TailwindCSS for a stunning, mobile-friendly frontend
- Custom JS SDK to allow any developer to embed the chatbot in one line
- Bundler: Rollup to create a lightweight, installable
docubot-sdk.js
The architecture is stateless, scalable, and lightning-fast — ideal for real-world business use.
Challenges we ran into
- Building a document Q&A experience that feels fast and conversational
- Extracting high-quality content from complex PDFs in Lambda environments
- Managing context limits and chunking for LLMs effectively
- Creating an embeddable SDK that’s beautiful, isolated, and highly customizable
- Minimizing cold-start Lambda latency for AI-driven workflows
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Deployed a full-stack AI doc chat solution in under a week — serverless!
- Seamlessly integrated Claude via Bedrock for rich summarization and Q&A
- Built an embeddable SDK widget that any site can use with zero backend
- Delivered a blazing-fast user experience with clean UI/UX
- Solved a real business problem using only 3 AWS services — Lambda, Bedrock, and S3
What we learned
- How to design efficient AI pipelines using Lambda and Bedrock together
- Best practices for embedding LLMs into real business workflows
- How to handle secure, temporary file storage and cleanup in S3
- The power of minimal, composable architecture when using serverless design
- Tricks to optimize Lambda cold start and performance under load
What's next for DocuBot.AI
- Add support for multi-file Q&A with document linking
- Allow saving and exporting chat summaries or insights
- Support for voice input and AI-generated answers via audio
- Add Stripe-based billing for business users
- Publish the SDK to NPM and make DocuBot embeddable in React Native apps
- Launch an analytics dashboard for businesses to track what users ask
Built With
- amazon-web-services
- aws-lambada
- react-native
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