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Project 06 Planned

GST / Income-tax RAG Chatbot

Quick lookups of GST and Income-tax rules — with a citation on every answer, or a refusal.


For: Salaried India and SME CFOs · Planned — Month 6 (capstone).

The problem


Looking up a GST or Income-tax rule usually means wading through the bare act. A chatbot is the obvious interface — but a chatbot that invents a section number is worse than the bare act, because it sounds authoritative.

What it does


A web chat interface answering from a tight corpus — the GST Act plus five selected CBIC circulars in v1 — with a citation anchored to a specific section or circular on every answer, and a refusal pattern for anything off-topic.

  • Every answer cites a specific section or circular
  • Refusal pattern for off-topic questions
  • Educational framing — disclaimer pinned

Design choices


Scope discipline is the whole design. The temptation is to ingest everything; that is how this project would consume a month and still hallucinate. v1 stays deliberately small so every answer is verifiable, the disclaimer is pinned, and the framing is educational — what the law says, then consult a qualified professional.

Stack


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Educational only. Answers may be incomplete or out of date — consult a qualified professional before acting.

Built and demonstrated on synthetic data only.