An AI assistant that helps self-employed people in Portugal get clear and reliable answers about Social Security, taxes, and labor regulations.

Navigating Social Security, taxes, and labor rules can be confusing and time-consuming. This project aims to make bureaucracy simpler by putting all the essential information in one place, explained clearly and in the user's preferred language.

What it does?

• Chat with the assistant in Portuguese or English
• Get simplified explanations about rights and obligations
• Uses information from official government documents

Who it helps?

• Self-employed worked in Portugal
• Freelancers and small business owners
• Anyone who wants to better understand their rights and obligations without digging through complex documents

Technologies behind

• Python - core programming language of the project
• LlamaIndex - parsing and indexing official PDF documents for efficient retrieval
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) - combines document retrieval with AI to generate grounded answers
• OpenAI API - powers natural language understanding and multilingual support (Portuguese + English)
• FastAPI - backend API to serve the assistant and handle chat requests
• Streamlit - interactive web interface for users to chat with the assistant
• Docker - containerization for easy deployment and reproducibility