KnowYourPlan

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Inspiration

Insurance is supposed to protect us, but for many people, it becomes just another source of stress. We were inspired to create KnowYourPlan because we saw how complicated and overwhelming insurance documents really are. Understanding what you’re entitled to, for your own health, after an emergency, when you're already stressed, you shouldn’t feel like decoding a legal contract. Yet every year, millions of people are hit with surprise costs, hidden fees, and uncovered treatments simply because the system wasn’t built for clarity. We believe it shouldn’t be this difficult. Everyone deserves to know exactly what they’re covered for: clearly, simply, and without fear. That’s why we built KnowYourPlan: to turn confusion into confidence and make insurance literacy accessible for everyone.

What it does

Insurance Document Upload: Allows users to upload insurance policy documents (PDF format).
AI-Powered Summarization: Utilizes the Mistral 7B Instruct Free tier API to generate concise summaries of insurance policies.
User-Friendly Interface: Provides a clean, responsive UI built with Next.js, where users can log in, submit documents, and view summaries.
Backend Integration: A Flask API manages document processing and communicates with the frontend. It also stores user data and processed summaries in MongoDB.
Dashboard: Displays the user's document history and generated summaries for easy access and review.
Data Security: Ensures secure handling of user data and uploaded documents.

How we built it

Design: Created a clean and user-friendly UI using Figma for the frontend web app.
Frontend Development: Developed with Next.js, implementing pages for login, file submission, summary display, and dashboard.
Backend Development: Built a Flask API with Python (hosted on Render) and used MongoDB to manage user data, ingest, and return insurance policies.
AI Integration: Integrated the Mistral 7B Instruct Free tier API for summarizing insurance policies.
Testing: Validated backend functionality with Postman and ensured seamless integration with the frontend.
Refinement: Continuously refined both frontend and backend code to ensure smooth data transfer and proper functionality.

Challenges we ran into

The project scope felt larger than our time constraint
Difficulties tracking down errors due to our app having many different systems
Trying to implement all backend features into the frontend web-app
Managing user authentication, such as a functional login and signup feature
Finding a usable free AI API that can read a large amount of text
Parsing the PDF file text for the AI summary
AI API request errors

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Designing and implementing a clean and user-friendly UI in our frontend
Completing the functionality and deploying our backend API on Render
Efficient task delegation within our team
Efficient and clear communication between team members

What we learned

The importance of communication when collaborating cross-functionally
The power of having a team with diverse skills
We learned to translate business issues into technical issues to figure out solutions
Gained more technical skills and understanding of full-stack development and AI/ML