AI Tax Assistant

RAG-Powered IRS Publication Query System with Modular Architecture

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Hosting / Infrastructure Layer
Cloud deployment with auto-scaling and edge distribution
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Container Hosting
Current
Swap Options Easy
Fly.io Railway AWS ECS Google Cloud Run
Docker
Containerization
Current
Swap Options Medium
Buildpacks Nix Native Deploy
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Presentation Layer
Modern web interface for tax Q&A interactions
React + Vite
Frontend SPA
Current
Swap Options Easy
Next.js Streamlit Vue + Nuxt Gradio
Tailwind CSS
Styling
Current
Swap Options Easy
Chakra UI Material UI shadcn/ui
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API Layer
RESTful backend with streaming SSE support
FastAPI
REST + SSE
Current
Swap Options Medium
Flask Express.js Django Go Fiber
Python Services
Business Logic
Current
Swap Options Medium
LangChain LlamaIndex Haystack
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AI / LLM Layer
Natural language understanding and generation
Claude (Anthropic)
Response Generation
Current
Swap Options Easy
GPT-4 (OpenAI) Gemini (Google) Llama (Self-hosted) AWS Bedrock
OpenAI Embeddings
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Current
Swap Options Easy
Cohere Embed Voyage AI BGE Models SentenceTransformer
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RAG / Vector Layer
Semantic search and document retrieval
Qdrant Cloud
Vector Database
Current
Swap Options Easy
Pinecone Weaviate Chroma Milvus pgvector
PDF Processor
Document Chunking
Current
Swap Options Medium
Unstructured.io LlamaParse Azure Doc AI
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Data Layer
Session management and content storage
Upstash Redis
Chat History
Current
Swap Options Easy
Redis Cloud DynamoDB PostgreSQL In-Memory
IRS Publications
Knowledge Base
Current
Swap Options Easy
State Tax Docs Legal Documents Custom PDFs

"Retrieval-Augmented Generation ensures answers are grounded in authoritative IRS sources."