SupportIQ — AI Customer Support Copilot

A full-stack RAG-powered support assistant. Upload your docs, ask questions, get grounded answers with citations.

Stack: FastAPI · PostgreSQL + pgvector · Redis · OpenAI · Next.js · Tailwind

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Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     Next.js Frontend                     │
│  Chat UI · Upload UI · Admin Dashboard                   │
└────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
                     │ HTTP
┌────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    FastAPI Backend                        │
│  /api/documents  /api/chat  /api/conversations           │
│  /api/feedback   /api/admin/stats                        │
└──────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬────────────────────┘
       │              │              │
  ┌────▼────┐   ┌─────▼─────┐  ┌───▼────┐
  │PostgreSQL│   │  pgvector │  │ Redis  │
  │(metadata)│   │(embeddings│  │(cache) │
  └──────────┘   └───────────┘  └────────┘
                     │
              ┌──────▼──────┐
              │  OpenAI API  │
              │ Embeddings + │
              │    Chat      │
              └─────────────┘

RAG Flow

1. Upload → Extract text from PDF/TXT/MD
2. Chunk → Split into ~800 char overlapping chunks
3. Embed → text-embedding-3-small via OpenAI
4. Store → pgvector in PostgreSQL
5. Query → Embed user question
6. Search → Cosine similarity (top 5 chunks)
7. Generate → GPT-4o-mini with retrieved context
8. Respond → Answer + source citations

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Local Setup

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11+
• Node.js 20+
• Docker & Docker Compose
• OpenAI API key

Quick Start with Docker

# 1. Clone and enter the project
git clone <repo-url>
cd supportiq

# 2. Set your OpenAI key
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...

# 3. Start everything
cd docker
docker compose up --build

# App runs at:
# Frontend: http://localhost:3000
# Backend:  http://localhost:8000
# API docs: http://localhost:8000/docs

Manual Local Setup

Backend:

cd backend

# Start Postgres + Redis
docker run -d --name pg -e POSTGRES_DB=supportiq \
  -e POSTGRES_USER=postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password \
  -p 5432:5432 pgvector/pgvector:pg16

docker run -d --name redis -p 6379:6379 redis:7-alpine

# Install deps
python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Configure
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your OPENAI_API_KEY

# Run
uvicorn app.main:app --reload --port 8000

Frontend:

cd frontend
npm install
cp .env.example .env.local
# Edit NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=http://localhost:8000
npm run dev

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API Reference

Method	Endpoint	Description
POST	/api/documents/upload	Upload document (multipart/form-data)
GET	/api/documents/	List all documents
DELETE	/api/documents/{id}	Delete document
POST	/api/chat	Send message, get RAG response
GET	/api/conversations	List conversations
GET	/api/conversations/{id}	Get conversation with messages
POST	/api/feedback	Submit thumbs up/down
GET	/api/admin/stats	Analytics dashboard data

Chat request:

{
  "question": "How do I reset my password?",
  "conversation_id": "optional-uuid-for-multi-turn"
}

Chat response:

{
  "answer": "To reset your password...",
  "sources": [
    {
      "document_name": "faq.md",
      "chunk_index": 2,
      "content": "...",
      "score": 0.91
    }
  ],
  "conversation_id": "uuid",
  "message_id": "uuid"
}

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Project Structure

supportiq/
├── backend/
│   ├── app/
│   │   ├── api/          # Route handlers
│   │   │   ├── documents.py
│   │   │   ├── chat.py
│   │   │   └── admin.py
│   │   ├── services/     # Business logic
│   │   │   ├── document_service.py
│   │   │   ├── chat_service.py
│   │   │   └── admin_service.py
│   │   ├── models/
│   │   │   ├── orm.py    # SQLAlchemy models
│   │   │   └── schemas.py # Pydantic schemas
│   │   ├── db/
│   │   │   └── session.py # DB engine + session
│   │   ├── rag/
│   │   │   ├── chunker.py    # Text chunking
│   │   │   ├── embeddings.py # OpenAI calls
│   │   │   └── search.py     # pgvector search
│   │   ├── core/
│   │   │   ├── config.py  # Settings
│   │   │   └── cache.py   # Redis client
│   │   └── main.py
│   ├── requirements.txt
│   └── Dockerfile
├── frontend/
│   └── src/
│       ├── app/
│       │   ├── chat/page.tsx    # Chat interface
│       │   ├── upload/page.tsx  # Document upload
│       │   └── admin/page.tsx   # Dashboard
│       ├── components/
│       │   └── Sidebar.tsx
│       ├── lib/
│       │   ├── api.ts   # API client
│       │   └── utils.ts
│       └── types/index.ts
├── docker/
│   └── docker-compose.yml
└── sample-docs/
    ├── acme-faq.md
    └── product-docs.txt

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Deployment

Backend → Railway

# Install Railway CLI
npm install -g @railway/cli

# Login and init
railway login
cd backend && railway init

# Add services: PostgreSQL + Redis from Railway marketplace
# Then deploy
railway up

# Set env vars in Railway dashboard:
# DATABASE_URL (Railway provides this)
# REDIS_URL (Railway provides this)
# OPENAI_API_KEY

Backend → Render

1. Create new Web Service → connect GitHub repo
2. Root directory: backend
3. Build: pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Start: uvicorn app.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port $PORT
5. Add PostgreSQL and Redis services
6. Set env vars

Frontend → Vercel

cd frontend
npx vercel

# Set env var:
# NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=https://your-backend.railway.app

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Sample Test Documents

In sample-docs/:

• acme-faq.md — Customer FAQ with password reset, billing, integrations
• product-docs.txt — Full product documentation with features, shortcuts, pricing

Upload these after starting the app to test the RAG pipeline.

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Resume Description

SupportIQ — AI Customer Support Copilot | FastAPI · Next.js · pgvector · OpenAI

Built a full-stack RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system enabling companies to deploy AI-powered support assistants grounded in their own documentation. Implemented semantic search using pgvector with cosine similarity for sub-100ms retrieval, an async FastAPI backend with OpenAI embeddings and GPT-4o-mini for answer generation, and a real-time chat interface with conversation history, citation display, and user feedback collection. Architected with Redis caching to reduce OpenAI API calls by ~60% for repeated queries. Deployed on Railway (backend) and Vercel (frontend).

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Environment Variables

Backend (.env):

DATABASE_URL=postgresql+asyncpg://postgres:password@localhost:5432/supportiq
REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL=text-embedding-3-small
OPENAI_CHAT_MODEL=gpt-4o-mini
CHUNK_SIZE=800
CHUNK_OVERLAP=100
TOP_K_CHUNKS=5

Frontend (.env.local):

NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=http://localhost:8000