AI Developer Needed — Build Local RAG-Based Espresso Troubleshooting Assistant
Worldwide
Description: I'm looking for a developer to build a small AI-powered assistant for home baristas. A user describes a problem with their espresso shot (sour, bitter, watery, pulling too fast or too slow), and the assistant diagnoses the likely cause and recommends a specific fix — grounded in real brewing knowledge, not a generic AI guess. This is a well-scoped, small first version — not a full product build. I'd rather have something working, clean, and clearly explained than something over-engineered. What's in scope: User inputs a problem in plain language (e.g. "shot tastes sour and pulled in 15 seconds"), optionally with grind size, dose, and yield The assistant retrieves relevant guidance from a small set of real brewing documents (5–8 sources) Uses a RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) approach with an LLM API (e.g. Anthropic Claude or OpenAI) to generate the diagnosis Returns a clear answer: likely cause, the fix to try, and which source it's based on A simple interface: enter a problem, get a diagnosis What I'll provide: The source documents for the knowledge base (brewing guides, troubleshooting references) What I need from you: Build the agent to run locally on my machine (no cloud deployment needed for this phase) Hand over the complete, well-organized codebase at the end One walkthrough call after handover explaining how the code works, so I can maintain and update it myself going forward
- Less than 30 hrs/weekHourly
- 1-3 monthsDuration
- IntermediateExperience Level
$5.00
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$35.00
Hourly- Remote Job
- Ongoing projectProject Type
Skills and Expertise
Activity on this job
- Proposals:50+
- Last viewed by client:4 hours ago
- Interviewing:3
- Invites sent:3
- Unanswered invites:0
About the client
- United StatesColumbus4:55 PM
- $951 total spent9 hires, 1 active
- 37 hours
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