PoliSights.ai

Small businesses struggle with tracking policy changes. Our AI system extracts regulations, processes them with NLP, and delivers real-time insights—saving time, reducing risk, and ensuring compliance

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PoliSights.ai – AI-Powered Policy Tracking for Small Businesses

Inspiration

Small businesses often struggle to keep up with evolving policies and regulations. Many small-scale organizations cannot afford expensive legal fees or hire dedicated lawyers, forcing them to manually track regulation updates—an overwhelming and time-consuming task. Inspired by the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in navigating compliance requirements, we envisioned a solution that automates policy tracking and delivers actionable insights in real-time.

How We Built It

Our system extracts policy documents using BeautifulSoup/Scrapy, processes them with NLP models (OpenAI, SpaCy), and stores structured data in Snowflake and Pinecone for efficient retrieval. We designed an ETL pipeline using Airflow to automate daily updates, while a FastAPI backend enables semantic search and real-time alerts. The user interface, built with React.js, provides a seamless experience for business owners.

What We Learned

  • NLP Challenges: Processing legal text required fine-tuning embeddings and leveraging vector databases for accurate retrieval.
  • Scalability: Building an ETL pipeline with Airflow taught us how to handle large-scale data ingestion and processing.
  • Frontend-Backend Integration: Optimizing API endpoints and state management in React improved our full-stack development skills.

Challenges We Faced

  • Data Extraction Complexity: PDFs and unstructured text posed parsing difficulties, requiring extensive preprocessing.
  • Efficient Querying: Implementing semantic search with Pinecone and optimizing response times was a key challenge.
  • Real-time Alerts: Ensuring timely notifications for policy changes without overwhelming users with noise was crucial.

The Impact

PoliSights.ai empowers small businesses by providing real-time policy insights, reducing compliance risks, and saving hours of manual effort. By making policy tracking affordable and accessible, we help small organizations stay compliant without relying on costly legal services.

We are excited about the future of this project and its potential to transform regulatory tracking for small enterprises.

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