SovereignBrief

Inspiration

Ops teams get policy memos that mix vendors, dates, and open asks. The useful output is a short brief: what it says, and who does what next. SovereignBrief is a new project started in the Hack Apertus window (1–16 Oct 2026) for that job.

What it does

Paste a policy or ops note (or a small PDF) and get a structured action brief: summary, risks, decisions needed, five next actions, and open questions. An optional second language can be requested (EN, HI, or DE). A static GitHub Pages page shows one brief already produced from samples/sample_policy.txt. That page does not call a model.

How we built it

Python and FastAPI. The live path calls Switzerland’s open Apertus model through the Hugging Face router.

• Preferred id swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B was not on the router (a chat call returned HTTP 400; the id is absent from the router model list).
• The working route used for the sample is swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 via Public AI (:publicai).
• That route is not marked free on the router (about $0.10 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens). The one sample call on 2 Oct 2026 succeeded on included free-account monthly credits. No credits were purchased and no card was added. HTTP 402 would stop the call.
• A local OpenAI-compatible APERTUS_BASE_URL is the sovereign path (for example vLLM). It is documented, not required for the static demo.

Challenges we ran into

The v1.5 8B id was not routable, so the app retries exactly one documented Apertus route and stops. GitHub Pages cannot run FastAPI, so the public demo is a static snapshot of a real saved brief, not a fake live chat.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

One real sample memo was briefed. The summary returned was: “Draft update to remote vendor access & document retention (comments due Fri).” Five next actions were kept. Risks, decisions, and open questions from that run were not stored, so the static page does not invent them.

What we learned

Check the router model list before assuming a model-card id is callable. A static snapshot is an honest demo when the host cannot run the API.

What's next

Keep the local app pointed at a self-hosted Apertus endpoint so the same brief can run without a US inference router.

Built With

• apertus
• face
• fastapi
• github
• hugging
• pages
• python
• uvicorn