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Comment · 9 months ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Finntegrate: AI-powered multilingual assistant for immigrants to Finland

https://finntegrate.org

My co-founders and I are building an AI assistant that helps immigrants navigate Finnish bureaucracy. As immigrants, we've experienced firsthand how fragmented and inaccessible essential information can be, scattered across Migri, Kela, the tax office, and municipal websites, often only in Finnish and Swedish.

We're using RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to create a multilingual chat interface that connects people to official resources rather than replacing them. The system reduces "failure demand" - support requests that arise because people can't achieve their goals through existing resources.

The technical approach is a multi-agent system in which specialized AI agents handle different domains (immigration law, employment, housing, healthcare, etc.). We've named the agents after Finnish mythological figures (such as Tapio, Ilmarinen, and Sampo) to create a cultural connection while providing practical assistance.

Interestingly, this addresses a systematic problem - government agencies spend significant resources on repetitive support that could be automated. At the same time, immigrants get frustrated trying to piece together information from multiple sources.

We're exploring B2B opportunities (companies relocating employees, municipalities, healthcare systems recruiting internationally) and EU funding for integration technology.

Happy to share more details or get feedback from anyone who's worked on similar multilingual AI systems or government-facing tools.

GitHub: https://github.com/finntegrate/tapio

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I would recommend pagination for a table of that size.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hopefully, we'll converge on a standard, product-agnostic file naming convention, similar to .editorconfig. Are there any existing/emerging generic conventions, like .llm-instructions, that products like Cursor and GitHub Copilot support? This could be useful for teams and orgs with diverse LLM usage.
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