Insurio

Inspiration

Understanding health insurance is often overwhelming, with confusing terms and scattered information. We wanted to build a tool that gives users clear, trustworthy answers based on their needs and their own insurance plans.

What it does

Insurio helps users explore personalized health insurance options and understand and compare existing policies. Users can ask insurance-related questions or upload their policy documents to receive tailored, natural-language responses with reliable sources.

How we built it

We used Perplexity's Sonar API for natural language understanding, real-time search, Marketplace API and reasoning. The frontend was built with React, while the backend used Node.js. We integrated document parsing and context-aware querying to allow personalized Q&A from user-uploaded PDFs.

Challenges we ran into

Keeping answers context-aware and accurate across follow-up questions
Balancing fast response time with depth of reasoning
Handling edge cases in insurance language and formatting

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Seamless integration of Sonar for both general and document-specific queries
Seamless integration of Marketplace API for accurate insurance search
Real-time answers with trusted citations
A smooth, intuitive interface that handles both search and document understanding
Creating a working MVP within the hackathon timeline

What we learned

The versatility of Sonar in both search and reasoning tasks
How to combine file processing with real-time AI response systems
The importance of grounding answers in real-world sources for user trust
Designing user flows for non-technical users in a high-stakes domain like health