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 Built with a React/Vite frontend and a Node.js/Express backend, using Anthropic Claude for generation, OpenAI Whisper for video audio track transcription, Voyage AI for embeddings and response cosine similarity scoring (the "groundedness" score).
 
-MIT license, by [@sjdev](https://sjdev.co). 
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 ## Query pipeline
 
 Source Ingestion -> Parsing -> Chunking -> Embedding (using Voayge AI voyage-3 model) -> Storage (vector store) -> { user query submission } -> evaluation of user query -> Retrieval -> Ranking -> Response Generation (Using Anthopic's claude-opus-4-6 model) -> Response Groundedness Scoring (using Voyage AI rerank-r model)
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 - `client/` -- React 19 SPA via Vite. Two-panel layout: sidebar for notebooks/data sources, main area for LLM chat with explorable citations, groundedness badges (cosine similarity scoring of LLM responses), and follow-up question chips.
 
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 ## License
 
 MIT. See [LICENSE](./LICENSE).