DDS Insurance Q&A — RAG Assistant (Pinecone + OpenAI + Gradio)

A beginner-friendly, document-grounded Insurance Q&A bot you can replicate and deploy on Hugging Face Spaces. It answers only from your uploaded insurance documents using LlamaIndex + Pinecone (serverless) + OpenAI, with a simple, polite system prompt.

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Summary

• Grounded answers only: if it’s not in your docs → the bot politely says it can’t find it.
• Simple UI: FAQ dropdown + free-text question input.
• Easy replication: clean, minimal structure for beginners.
• Deployable: designed for Hugging Face Spaces.

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What You’ll Get

• A deployed Space URL you can share.
• Grounded answers (no docs → polite refusal).
• A simple Gradio UI:
  • FAQ dropdown
  • Free-text question box
  • Centered header logo (data/dds_logo.png)
• Beginner-friendly defaults + clear error messages.

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Features

• RAG-only answers (strictly from your documents).
• Pinecone serverless index:
  • aws/us-east-1
  • cosine
  • 1536-dim
• OpenAI models
  • Embeddings: text-embedding-3-small
  • LLM: gpt-4o-mini
• Gradio UI with required logo: data/dds_logo.png
• Beginner-friendly UX and troubleshooting.

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Repository Structure

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├─ data/                     # Your insurance docs + required logo
│  └─ dds_logo.png           # REQUIRED (shown in header)
├─ app.py                    # Main app: indexing + query + Gradio UI
├─ requirements.txt          # Dependencies
└─ README.md                 # This file