Sara-Personal Risk Advisor

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Inspiration

Finding the right policy to cover you against life’s unexpected challenges to protect your financial future can be a daunting process. What if we could use technology to make finding insurance policy a frictionless experience?

What it does

Sara is your personal insurance advisor who works with you to understand your current life situation and potential risks by comparing you against your peers to ensure you are properly covered for life's unfortunate events. Sara makes this process simple by avoiding those annoying forms with the ability to scan your license and have a real conversation. Sara then presents your risk profile and can even start the process of getting a quote all from the power of your iPhone.

How we built it

Sara was built with the power of IBM Bluemix & Watson integrated into a native iOS application written in Objective C + Swift on an iPhone 6S or 6S plus running iOS 9.0+. Sara's ability to speak is powered by Watson's natural language processing including Text to Speech & Speech to Text. Her ability to understand data and build a risk profile uses IBM's Bluemix components base in Java Liberty including

Challenges we ran into

Data loading on IBM Bluemix using DB2. Data loader would not continue to load. Voice to text stability issues (solved) and Facebook authentication provided by IBM was nonfunctional and had to drop the feature.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Integration between front end dev, back end dev and design teams to rapidly design, build the prototype using agile, product lifecycle based approaches. Ability to use natural language processing to capture information and get rid of that annoying process of filling out forms.