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Odisha Government · Public Services

A citizen-service AI assistant for state portals

An Odia-first RAG assistant that helps citizens get answers across state-service portals - faster, and in their own language.

ନମସ୍କାର

Public services. In your own language.

Timeline
3 weeks roadmap · 6 weeks to piloted MVP
Our role
AI Strategy & ROI · Rapid Prototyping · Odia LLM & NLP
Focus
RAG · Odia NLP · Govt
30-40%

Faster query resolution in pilot

6 wks

From strategy to a piloted assistant

Odia-first

Answers in citizens' own language

Built around the people using it.

State-service portals are dense and English-heavy. We built a retrieval-augmented assistant grounded in official content, fluent in Odia, with guardrails and human escalation - cutting the time citizens spend hunting for answers.

The challenge

Citizens struggled to find answers across fragmented, English-first service portals.

Generic chatbots hallucinated and had no grounding in official, up-to-date policy content.

Any solution had to respect data governance, security and public-sector procurement realities.

What we built

  1. Grounded retrieval, not guesswork

    A RAG pipeline retrieves from official, versioned source content so every answer is traceable back to a document - with confidence thresholds and human escalation for the rest.

  2. Odia-first language layer

    Fine-tuned Odia understanding and generation so citizens ask and receive answers naturally, including code-mixed queries.

  3. Governed by design

    Access controls, audit logging, PII handling and a private deployment posture built in from day one - not bolted on later.

Technology behind the work

  • Next.js
  • Python
  • Vector DB
  • Fine-tuned LLM
  • Guardrails
  • Private cloud
They cut through eighteen months of indecision in three weeks - and the pilot actually reached citizens in Odia.
Director, Digital ServicesState Public Sector Undertaking

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